hey what's up everybody we are going to be cutting some prehnite on my 10 inch
lapidary saw we're going to be slabbing it up and if we get some high quality pieces we'll be
making cabochons out of them in the future but we're just going to be doing some cutting today
so here's my favorite piece right here it's got green botryoidal goodness going on all over it
and then a couple other smaller pieces that i'm excited to see what's going on
and the fun fact about prehnite is you can find
copper inside it so we'll be looking for that as well let's fire up this saw and get started
then we're going to start the cutting off with these two pieces right here
so we cut through the first piece and we got some good slabs here really interesting
very beautiful and there are little copper flecks in this it's a little hard to see
so yeah that is the first piece couple good slabs we'll move on to the second one
so
so we got through the second piece and these are our slabs part of me is thinking maybe this
isn't prehnite i thought it was a very beach worn specimen it's really beautiful i think it'll make
some good potentially some good cabochons if it'll polish up it didn't seem too soft while i was
cutting it but yeah i don't think this is prehnite i'm not sure what this is but we'll move on to
the last piece this big guy right here and you probably won't be able to hear it but when i shake
it it rattles so there are some empty cavities inside this there's a lot of really beautiful
botryoidal goodness going on i love this piece and uh yeah we are going to cut it the long way here
so i haven't looked at it yet i wanted to share that with you we can look at
the inside of this big chunk together that is really cool this almost looks like a
oh it is you can see it right here let's catch in the sun chunk of copper right there
this is almost yeah this is copper right here in this little pocket there's copper all over in here
there's some up i already showed that some up here on this one
that's awesome i'm gonna make a few more slabs out of this and then we'll show you
well there is so many botryoidal cavities on that one that we lost
a lot of little bits they were just flying off as we were cutting it but
we got some really good slabs and there is a ton of copper in these this one
is really really beautiful on the back side here you can see right there there there
in there there's copper all over it's a pretty big chunk right there you can see it in the sun
cavity right there love this patrol pocket going on in here a lot of copper flakes
up in here that is really cool there's so many of them i love this big guy right here
i think we already saw this one i had the big copper pocket right there copper all over and
then another really really cool piece it's got a little hole running through here with
the botryoidal pocket copper all over it as well i had a ton of fun cutting up this prehnite this
mystery mineral here and these really beautiful slabs it'll be fun to try to navigate with the
trim saw pieces to cut for cabochons it'll be a really really challenging piece but i think
it'll be really fun especially because there's so much copper inside this prehnite if you guys like
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