By the end of October 2023, I had finished tumble-polishing some of the stones I collected from Gemstone Beach during my “Southern Sojourn” at the start of the year. Throughout November, I posted one of these stones each day. Each Post provides images of a stone, including close-ups. Sometimes I am able to provide an identification, not always. Occasionally I also provide a little information about the type of stone.
Stone #1 Metamorphic with epidote (with additional brief comments on the mineral epidote)
Stone #2 Black and white
Stone #3 Quartz fragments/crystals and iron oxide
Stone #4 Light coloured igneous stone, maybe dacite? (with some information on dacite)
Stone #5 Thulite (with additional brief comments on the mineral thulite)
Stone #6 Quartzite
Stone #7 Unusual red hue (stone features in TumbleStone 2024 Calendar)
Stone #8 Hematite jasper (with additional comments on hematite)
Stone #9 Speckled dark green stone
Stone #10 Iron oxide dapples
Stone #11 White quartz and epidote green
Stone #12 Conglomerate or crystals? (with additional comments on conglomerates)
Stone #13 Black igneous stone with thousands of small white crystals
Stone #14 Brecciated stone
Stone #15 Rhyolite, perhaps ignimbrite (with brief comments on ignimbrite)
Stone #16 Light gray mudstone with darker markings (with comparisons with the rough stone)
Stone #17 Stone with bright purple veins
Stone #18 White quartzite
Stone #19 Patchy green stone
Stone #20 Rhyolite (with brief comments on rhyolite)
Stone #21 Amygdaloidal stone (with brief comments on amygdales)
Stone #22 Dacitic ignimbrite (with extended comments)
Stone #23 Fine-grained breccia
Stone #24 Warm green and orange patches
Stone #25 Small gray banded stone
Stone #26 Green banded argillite
Stone #27 Dark red, purple and white stone
Stone #28 Black and white stone
Stone #29 Quartz with light brown, pink and purple minerals
Stone #30 White quartz with green epidote
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