Joined: Thu Apr 03, 2014 6:46 pm Posts: 149 Location: Tulsa Ok. area
Just saw a inlay bracelet on FB with what he called rosarita red he used to replace broken or missing red coral. Looked it up and seems it was super-heated gold-bearing ore tailings and ended up with a red stone. Any one know about this and have some of it?
Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:01 pm Posts: 1902 Location: Pine City, NY and Dothan, AL
A geologist confirmed that it was named after a beach in Mexico? Interesting conclusion from an assay. Too bad we aren't given the actual results of the "assay".
Once again the answer is slag glass. I am always amazed by the many ways people have tried to market this kind of basically worthless industrial waste.
I have a slab or two of that exact material. It is indeed slag (air bubbles) but gorgeous . I have had it since I was a teenager - back in the 80s I had a couple of ladies who asked me to cut and polish them big cabs for pendants. They are quite striking when polished - the yellow streaks contast nicely with the deep orange-red.
-Allan
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