Azurite, a.k.a. Chessylite, ancient Greek Kuanos, Latin Caeruleum
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| "Heating destroys azurite easily" - Wikipedia |
Blue Quartz
Eye Agate
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| Those shiny black rocks in gift shops that are magnetic and stick together? I'm pretty sure that's hematite. |
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| Used by the ancient Egyptians for scarabs. |
Moss Agate
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| "when cut in one direction it is jet black; in another it is glistening gray" - Wikipedia again |
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| A blue variant is called Hawk Eye. |
Take this, add a little more text to each image (variants, unusual properties like the heating bit), and convert to PDF (hopefully with the right scale), and you'd have a really useful printout.
ReplyDeleteLapis Lazuli was also crushed up to make ink. I'm not sure about other periods but I know this was true of the Late Middle Ages. Since it's a precious stone, it became the rage to make everything one could in an illuminated manuscript blue. This was a kind of a status symbol, if a minor one.
ReplyDeleteHeres what it looks like on a page: http://chisnell.com/art/Age%20of%20Faith/january.jpg
When I was a kid in Mexico, we'd go hiking up in the hills near my house. At some parts of the hills you could literally bend over, brush away a little dirt, and scoop up some shards of obsidian.
ReplyDeleteThey look like Jelly Bellies. Mmm....Jelly Bellies.
ReplyDeleteDr. Rotwang: You totally leveled up and didn't have to knife anything in the process.
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ReplyDeleteAgree with Adam, I like being able to have visual aids at the table. And truthfully before seeing this I could probably paint a mental image of half this list.
I have a kind of rough draft worked up in PDF format, for anyone who is interested.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediafire.com/?928bxybn3lzwm1f
Nice work, dude!
ReplyDeleteGreat job Jeff! I have to admit, it's so much nicer to see someone else gathering this information than having to do it myself :P
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