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Who would like to help me ID some gemstones?

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Broken Irishwoman:
Hi! :D

I have a thing for gemstones, and I would like to learn more about them. I'm still very much a beginner, I'm pretty much at the point where I think that every purple stone is amethyst, and every clear stone is clear quartz. :P Of course I don't really think that, it's just that I wouldn't know what else it could be.

Yesterday bought these pretty little stones, but I'm not sure at all what they are. Does anybody here have any idea?

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The clear ones at the top look very much like clear quartz, except they have tiny little opal-like bits. The one on the left could be moonstone? The orange one is a complete mystery to me, when you hold it to the light it has grey/bluish sheen. The purple one could be amethyst, but I know there are other, lighter purple stones too. The pinkish one on the right is too purple-ish for rose quartz, I was thinking maybe fluorite? Especially because it's kind of "dull", and I know fluorite tends to be kind of dull (maybe I'm using the wrong word here, I definitely don't mean it in a bad way, just that it's not a very clear stone).

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! :D

melodys_angel:
Looks like an agate of sorts--or a chalcedony. Is the purple one milky?

Broken Irishwoman:
A little! The purple bits are quite clear, but it has a lot of white "clouds". :)

Mewtwofan1:
I’m not sure what gemstones these might be. Rocks are what I know best, but not gems. They’re pretty though.
     I’ll do a bit of digging, and see if I can find anything that might help.

melodys_angel:
Yeah its definitely not amethyst. Let me see if I can remember the names of a few of the trickier stones ^^

Apatite looks like that but is carribean blue.  There may be a purple one?

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