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Steve Sorrell's avatar

Have you checked it for fluorescence Richard?

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Tom Hanley's avatar

A local lapidaryist brought some quartz to me from a site he had been working in Alabama. Polished and held just right it showed asterism. I thin sectioned some and identified the star-producing fibers as either an amphibole, maybe anthophyllite, or sillimanite. I remember seeing basal crosections but can't remember if there was one diagonal celavage or to intersecting cleavages. Fifty years takes its toll. He called the stone "star fell" and hoped to promote it. Unfortunately, he died before he could develop it. I have no idea where he found the quartz. Interesting guy. He was known as an instinct marksman.

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