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mmmm....
without seeing it, its really difficult to say ...but could it be a blue Howlite, or a artificially coloured agate???

Lisa x

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I'll wager a guess at Chrysocolla...

If you can get someone to photograph it with a gigi camera and then post a picture - we'll recognise it immediately then.. but without a pic, it's a hard task.

Sol

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cat's eye?

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it can be tigers eye... Tigers eye can be green or blue or browns...

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Chrysocolla

Blue Tigers Eye -

Blue Cats Eye -

Blue Howlite

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Blue tigers eye

Laradorite

Tigers also comes in Red & Green the Green is lovely

love & hugs Maria xxxx

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Hi,
Thank you for all your replies - it's none of the above! It is similar in colour to the Howlite, but brighter, and similar in structure to the blue tiger's eye, but that's much too dark - as suggested I'm going to try and get a photo.

Thanks again,

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Blue Tigers Eye is also known as Hawks Eye.

Another option for this puzzle might be Larimar - it has an extraordinary soothing "creamy" energy... but its very expensive, probably not the one - who knows! If you get a good pic we will get its ID for you!

Sol.

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Ah, I know what it might be!..... I'll be back...................

chalcanthite

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Nope, I don't thinks it's larimar - but thanks for that, I've now discovered another beautiful stone! It's not the other one either, but I appreicate all you lovely people taking the time to find pictures for me - at least I'm learning a lot more about crystals!

I'll post a photo as soon as I can, I'm so intrigued to know why it drew everyone to it.

Thanks

Sandie
xx

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There's some good pics here , I love Amber's Chrysocolla one - wow!!!

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Chalcanthite... they love giving these things fancy names... it's a man made crystal, otherwise known as Copper Sulphate and is 'grown' in laboratories in West Germany. Very pretty - that's true - but its a member of a group of 'new synthetic crystals', some even are cleverly grown on a base rock making them really genuine looking.

Sol.

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Sol - I'm amazed (but not surprised) that people need to do that, what with all the breathtakingly beautiful natural crystals on this planet!
But I have to say it is pretty!

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Chalcanthite... they love giving these things fancy names... it's a man made crystal,

It might be pretty'ish, but it does look synthetic doesn't it? [&:]

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These synthetic crystals also 'feel' synthetic. I never use them myself for healing purposes.

I do love larimar though

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Could it have been Tanzanite?

Cath xx

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Tanzanite is at worst small and grey blue-ish, at best extremely expensive as a blue purple gemstone. They are exceptionally beautiful when as gemstones, cut and facetted, but few people will see good Tanzanites. I saw some at the Earls Court Jewellery fair 2yrs back and they were amazing - but with a £3,000 price tag, they should have been...!

Generally speaking the Tanzanite in crystal shops will be mineral grade and nothing at all like the gems... My wife wears a Tanzanite engagement ring; it's beautiful, but one day she'll wear her pink Sapphire - when we can afford to get it set in a ring... Being in the trade of stones allows one to see and (sometimes) buy nice gems occasionally...

Sol.

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Hi,

I have some photos, but unfortunately they are a bit fuzzy - I think the size need sto be reduced. The pictures don't capture the tigers-eye quality of the stone, but the colour is almost spot on - hopefully this will be enough for someone to work out what the stone was - as I said, everyine was drawn to it and no-one really wanted to put it down!

Oh rats - I've got this far and realised I don't know how to put a photo in a post d'oh! - can someone tell me how to do that please? Honestly, I give up sometimes - I even work in IT believe it or not!!

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Sandie send the photo, E mail it to me & i'll see what I can do.
Love & Hugs Maria xxx

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Posted for Tranquility Girl

Love & Hugs Maria xxx

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These pics above look to me to be the artificial (glass) stones called 'Cats Eye' - in it's blue variety... sorry to disappoint... If it is Cats Eye - then it will be 'see through' when viewed one way and non see through when viewed the other way... it has an optical quality caled plechroism. It comes in several different colours, and generally speaking children love it because its so brightly coloured and 'shiny'. but it's man made. I'm only saying I think it is this cats Eye stuff - because it looks like it - certainly the colour is spot on. but it was Tranquility Girl that originally asked the question - so she may be able to look at the stone again and put it through the simple test of vision...

Sol.

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..not just children who love it Sol!

Cat's eye is lovely, no matter what it is! The colour has to have a beneficial effect on people.

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Of course... I quite agree

Sol.

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Sol - thank you for your suggestion - In May, I'm going to meet up with the person who brought the stone to the Reiki day, so I'll ask them to bring it again and try what you suggest. From memory, it certainly wasn't see through one way and not the other - but it did have similar striations (?spelling) to Tiger's Eye, so perhaps it is Cat's Eye. It felt more like a tumbled stone than glass, but I guess if you tumble glass you get a similar effect!

Thanks again, I'll get back to you when I've given the stone another 'viewing'

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I guess they called it Cats Eye because it is (in appearance) similar to that stone when polished. Both have a 'fibre-optical' quality to them - the Cats Eye artificial stone too - they look as though there are fibres running through.

There are two actual varieties of Real cats Eye stones - one being a member of the mineralogical Quartz family and the other being a member of the Chrysoberyl family - the latter is a rare and thus expensive gemstone. A lot of the Quartz ones come out of India in silver jewellery - and are keenly sold by shops as 'Cats Eye Gemstones' - but they are not really anywhere near as valuable as their cousins in the Chrysoberyl family.
Just for the record...

Sol.