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Tumbled Fluorite in Granite Matrix
Dec 15th, 2014 at 8:54am
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At the Gardner Quarry trip last October, I picked up several rounded pieces of granite with bands of fluorite in them.  I decided to run them through a vibratory tumbler to smooth down the rough spots and see if they would take a polish.  Just finished with them recently.  The rough edges are gone but they took only a low polish -- not the brilliant polish that agates take.  Anyway, here are the results.
  
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Re: Tumbled Fluorite in Granite Matrix
Reply #1 - Dec 15th, 2014 at 10:21pm
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With all the different hardnesses that's a pretty tricky undertaking.
They look pretty good to me!
Good job! Thanks for the pics. Smiley
  
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Re: Tumbled Fluorite in Granite Matrix
Reply #2 - Dec 16th, 2014 at 9:25am
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Very nice work and photographs Victor.  If I didn't already know it was fluorite I would have thought it was amethyst veins in there.  Regardless it's still a very pretty rock.  You could make some cool book ends or other display pieces with those finds.  Thanks for sharing.
  
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Re: Tumbled Fluorite in Granite Matrix
Reply #3 - Jan 14th, 2015 at 3:55pm
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http://www.therockshed.com/instructions3.html

Might try the last step in the link above, dry aluminum oxide and corn cobs.
  
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