I've been a bad girl about keeping up with my social sites, but made progress in other things.
Ed and I actually took a road trip (two actually, but that is another story) so I could drool over all the lovely rocks and gems. The show was in Springfield, about 150 miles from here. With Ed's encouragement, I brought some goodies home.
The pictures are of tourmaline from the Congo, an aquamarine from New Hampshire and a piece of Ulexite from California.
I can see an angel in the aquamarine :)
Ulexite is found with the mineral borax and can be found in a vein-like bedding habit composed of closely-packed fibrous crystals, also known as "TV rock" or "TV stone" due to its unusual optical characteristics.
The fibers of TV rock act as fiber optics, transmitting light along their lengths by internal reflection, and when a piece of TV rock is cut with flat polished faces perpendicular to the orientation of the fibers a good-quality specimen will display an image of whatever surface is adjacent to its other side.
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