Tanzanian natronite
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Tanzanian natronite
This gemstone is on the Sunday afternoon schedule. What is it? I googled it but what I found doesn’t correspond with Tanzania. It’s not in the education section either.
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Re: Tanzanian natronite
To me, it looks like the same quartz that Cheryl "discovered" last year and they were calling Tanzerine.
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Well I hope so. I don’t remember from before and it’s not on the list. Since they are apparently reintroducing it it seems the prudent thing to do.
But I read about the whole thing when they brought it in as Tanzurine. There was a bit of a kerfuffle in the gem community because the guy who found it basically renamed cherry quartz Tanzurine. The speculation, If I recall, was to make money with a catchy name.
The info will still be out there, the internet isn’t written in pencil. So whatever the Mohs hardness is for cherry quartz.
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Online it says Mohs is 5-6RS wrote: ↑4 years agoWell I hope so. I don’t remember from before and it’s not on the list. Since they are apparently reintroducing it it seems the prudent thing to do.
But I read about the whole thing when they brought it in as Tanzurine. There was a bit of a kerfuffle in the gem community because the guy who found it basically renamed cherry quartz Tanzurine. The speculation, If I recall, was to make money with a catchy name.
The info will still be out there, the internet isn’t written in pencil. So whatever the Mohs hardness is for cherry quartz.
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Re: Tanzanian natronite
True!
There are posts about it here. If they haven’t gone POOF. put “Tanzurine” in the search bar for the forum and maybe you’ll find them.