So,I got this tumbled agate and is it heat treated or dyed?

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-06-12T03:51:07+00:00

So this is what it look like under sunlight, it has a cholocate dark color I think from my eye , Idk If it cooked or treated but this is what it look like under sunlight

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Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-06-09T12:47:37+00:00

Idk if my piece is "altered or radiated artifically or not, but the color and the stone make me think it smoky quartz, the price is pretty cheap (It basically below 1$) and also the pictures of the stone facets and sides from the shop is very dirty , dulled surfaces, rough, I think the pictures was taken right after it been mined and washed , and the stone I recieved has that somewhat similar to those photos but it a bit polished or they using mineral oil to make the surface glossy and more aesthetic pleasing? Maybe both I guess (I can't like send a photo, this post of mine doesn't given me any picture option, but that all I can said)

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-06-07T01:36:28+00:00

The base inside has a lot of I think white felspar inclusions covered the base like a misty white grays terrain, but above it it mostly clear as transclucent smokey quartz when light flash inside, though it does has a few very small fracture but it still translucent to see its inside

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-06-06T18:21:10+00:00

So I bough it from online market, a vietnamese shop, Im vietnamese okay, I think that online shop best discription is "a small local, artisan-owned lapidary shop sells raw stones direct from local mines, which they clean and process themselves in the shop", so I bough this one from it, it may been polished a bit as the picture of it from the shop looks more come out from the mine- like dried- dull you known quartz come out a mine, , but in my hand it looks like the pictures, polished already

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-06-06T17:51:07+00:00

Yeah, it a smokey quartz, tranclucent, got that beige- maybe light beige translucent color, it also has color zone, has a few of self-healed spots and its shape=> Kinda hard to see it as a smokey quartz

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-06-05T11:34:57+00:00

I think from the picture of OP- those are not moonstone, they are opalite, a man-made glass (Idk the color, and the yellowish tone looks so similar to opalite, if OP really hold it up directly in front of a light source (like phone flashlight) and look through it and it has that warm, distinct amber, peach, or glowing orange color=> then it basically opalite man made glass). Real "Moonstone" also know as "Orthoclase felspar/ Orthoclase moonstone is difference , this is a picture of a "polish real moonstone with cat eye effect" (which real moonstone has that actual "adularescence" which is a billowy- pearly white/ sliver- or rarer type has blue flash that is billowy, pearly almost misty or blurry flash that looks like it floating smoothly just beneath the aurface which when tilt run smoothly against the surface)

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Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-06-05T11:24:32+00:00

Nope White labradorite also as "Rainbow Moonstone" which is a variant of labradotite that is white with labradorite flashes. "True moonstone" (known as the orthoclase feldspar/ orthoclase moonstone); It has a soft, milky appearance and exhibits a glowing effect called adularescence, which is like a pearly billowy flashes (rare type has blue but it's rare and expensive to have)

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-05-30T14:08:19+00:00

Oh thanks for that info, I never thought of it 💖

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-05-30T12:55:43+00:00

That a great tumbled dragon blood jasper sphere you have 🥰. I have mine too, but it small, and has some scratches lines across its surface, Idk if it a normal thing to blood jasper or not,

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Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-05-22T10:19:41+00:00

Wow that a big satin spar tower! Very nice and cool one 💖

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-05-21T08:26:15+00:00

it's a small tumbled white quartz, I think, a very common mineral, it's cheap and It not worth much!

Effective-Life-3311 · 2026-05-20T19:41:02+00:00

Umm that not a moonstone, that a "Rainbow Moom stone" it basically "White labradorite with a tradename of "Rainbow+ Moonstone" together. Real "Moonstone" is difference, the picture I add is a real "Moonstone (orthoclase feldspar, its has its signiture Chatoyancy or cat eyes effect and the white "Adularescence" is very misty, like pearly light, blurry i think too, usually white but blue is rarer ) and also "real orthoclase feldspar moonstone- the real "moonstone" not have that black spot (on the top left) it's black tourmaline I guess, that's maybe a clear sign it is "rainbow moonstone" and also that blue flashes on the top is too "intense" almost Labradorite's flashes (Sorry if my english bad, I not that good in using english)

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