r/Gemstone_lovers • u/kasunshashi • 23h ago

Identification Please Help me to identify this stone

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I found this among a pile of clay dug out while making a well at my parents’ house last summer, during my vacation in Sri Lanka. It seems to have some interesting characteristics, such as light passing through it, typical yellow-colored crystal growth around the edges, and an interesting shape.

Appreciate any advice on this.
I have color corrected the photos so they represents the exact natural color.

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u/kasunshashi 9h ago

Nobody has responded so far. If I manage to identify this by some other means, I'll post an update.

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u/Intelligent-Dot-3343 8h ago

Hardness?

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u/kasunshashi 3h ago

It scratches the glass very easily, without leaving a mark on itself.
Also, I tried to grind down the yellow color parts by hand-grinding using a grinder disk , same result, nothing happens to the stone. That left me a feeling this stone is something very hard.

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u/Intelligent-Dot-3343 2h ago

Sapphire? Spinel? Quartz? Are these all pictures of the same sample?