Chronata
I just recently went Tourist gem mining (again) which isn't like real mining at all, where you get a back of dirt and sand and get to see what interesting mineral bits the proprietor put into it.
This one was on the way home from Indiana, at a cool cave site.
And the bag of sand produced lots of little green and silver sparkly bits!
I didn't know what they were at first (there were also a lot of green calcite, emerald, and aventurine too) but with a little research I discovered they were Fuschite...which I had never encountered before!
My spouse likes to hand polish the bits we get, and we discovered that they polish up to a brilliant glass like sheen, with a little of that cat's eye effect that you find in Tiger's Eye!
I'll try and get a photo up soon...anyway, I read that it is a healer's stone, and wondered if anyone has any experience with using it?
This one was on the way home from Indiana, at a cool cave site.
And the bag of sand produced lots of little green and silver sparkly bits!
I didn't know what they were at first (there were also a lot of green calcite, emerald, and aventurine too) but with a little research I discovered they were Fuschite...which I had never encountered before!
My spouse likes to hand polish the bits we get, and we discovered that they polish up to a brilliant glass like sheen, with a little of that cat's eye effect that you find in Tiger's Eye!
I'll try and get a photo up soon...anyway, I read that it is a healer's stone, and wondered if anyone has any experience with using it?