Lapidary

Does anyone know anything about different types of stone? Just been sorting through my garage and come across a bag of different polished stones and would like to know what they are.

If they are pretty looking, cover your outside plant pots with them. The stones will help keep the pots from drying out, and look good while they are doing it!

Thanks for the tip but I would like to know what stones they are One of them is flat about 1/8" thick with coloured bands which run through the depth of the stone very smooth and shiny like glass.

That could well be quartz, embedded in a sedimentary rock.

Some descripton of types, here.

They are often cut and polished to show off the distinct multicoloured bands.

There are forums discussing Lapidatery

I like them as coloured glass, but some could be valuable.

I have a friend and neighbour, over in Spain, who is an archeologist. He knows loads about different rocks. He writes books on it. He came round to mine, examining a load of rocks I have there, acres of them. He'd be able to tell you what they are. Unfortunately, he's on lockdown, like us!

Here he is ....

Rogan.

Rogan's books!

Can you post some pictures? That may help.

Ive not got a platform to put them on the net in order to get a URL

Someone has told me Lapis Lazuli is often associated with lapidary!

Ive not got a platform to put them on the net in order to get a URL

Getting us interested in the photo's now, cont under stand the not got a platform bit

Upload them to facebook, then you can put them on here.

Email them to me, Admin. I will put them on here for you.
Or join Imgur

Never mind Lapis Lazuli, I prefer Ajmeer Manzil ?

A good Standish lad.

With Bangladeshi connections of course.

The Ajmeer Manzil, now your talking, that's were I was introduced to Rogan.

The true Aj was in Market St,but must agree Standish Aj very good,mind you same chef as Wigan Aj

That's the one, Market Street, your old mate Carpet was banned from there more times than Jim Mills.

Just for Tuddy--A good friend worked at Golborne and found the biggest full fern fossil I had seen he gave it to my son ho kept it till he got married, as the mines were closing I gave it back saying keep this safe as you know the exact place it came from it's yours again, so look after it is over a million years old and you'll never find anything that old again

Is a 'furn focal' similar to a 'lapis luzali' or an 'ajmir manzil'?

Or is it a 'Full Fern Fossil' only written in Estonian?

I'm only having a bit of fun, Dougie!

Did perspiring Elizabeth have the Ajmir on market st for while?

[: I know that but I did say (Just for Tuddy) just put it on spell check told me change just-Just, furn-fern, focal-fossil, it's-is, its changed just for you

dougie, I found a few fossils when I worked at Golborne, usually in the Crombouke seam. Nothing really special just small leaves and bits of ferns, I might still have them somewhere. I did hear a story about a tree trunk being found in the tunnel being driven to connect Golborne and Bickershaw but I never saw it. Chris Southworth might know if it's true or not.
joe, Elizabeth did indeed have a place on Market Street but it wasn't the Ajmir.

Tuddy

This one was the size of a small hand as I said the full top part of a big fern, will ask if he kept it or gave it away again, when you say about a tree trunk, you are not talking about what we called potholes looked like a very hard tree trunk if, so we had a few of them in the yard mine

The whole coal seam is a fossil.

Granted, often it reveals little to see.

If you ever get the chance to see electron microgaphs of coal (admittedly, not easy, but The Geological Museum have some) you can see all the compressed vegetative forms which have produced the coal.

My friend Rogan, who I linked up there ^^^^, has a huge collection of fossils. Dinosaur stuff, the lot.
Have a look at the photo of the 1.2 tonne quartz crystal he recently sold. It's there on his facebook page ^^^^.

I wanted to be a petrologist when I was at school.

That is not what life held in store for me though.

dougie, The story I heard was that it was a full tree trunk which was exposed in the heading after shot firing, but as I said I did'nt get to see it. The heading men were earning serious money paid on yardage, so they wouldn't want to wait around showing it off, it was drilled and fired again.

Tuddy, I did my training on the main heading and as you say they must have been well paid, as at the end of the week each one gave me 5/- =£1.5/- plus two Toffee at the end of ever shift, more than I got pocket money for a week,
I have asked a question on your Golborne Site have a look

There was a strip of fossilized mussels in the Arley seam at Nook pit.

Did you try imgur, Admin?

Yep couldnt follow what to do???

This is agate, (silica, chalcedony and quartz) are these the sort of stripes you refer to?

Sorry for small image. I too do not subscribe to a photo hosting facility, so it is via the WW 'My pictures'.

Have you ever heard of Gerr Agate!

Sounds like Ashton overthrowing their overlords.

Damn! You went back and edited it. Comment is less applicable to version 2.

Damnitall. Imgur is not accessible to me just now.

Works ok for me. You don't need an account to use it.