danjared
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I'm just curious, does anyone know anything about whether there are Les Latneuses coticules that are BBW-backed? I imagine there have to be, but I have not seen pictures of one yet. I'm just curious how one would identify them. I have a Les Latneuses (I think from the slower side) that has a sublayer on the top that is different from what is immediately below it, which reminds me a bit of No56 in the vault. I know that, in certain cases, there are La Dressantes that are easily confusable for stones of other veins. I only know my particular stone is a Les Latneuses because of the hybrid side and the vertical blue veins it has. It's also confusing that many of the stones that most recently became available are visually slightly different from the ones in the vault. (By the way, Bart, would it be possible to get more high resolution pictures of No55 in the vault? I know you're keeping that one, but I'd like to see better pictures.)
I think there are some people with raw chunks of Les Latneuses. Do any of you have high-resolution side views of these? I wonder if it would be possible in the future for Bart to get cross-section samples of different veins from Ardennes, which would run from bottom BBW to top BBW.
My motivation is trying to begin to mentally catalog (and eventually put together documentation of) the visual and performance characteristics of different veins. The veins that are throwing me off a bit are La Grise, La Dressante and Les Latneuses. It's even more confusing that layers other than Les Latneuses have bits of what look like "hybrid" coticule but not to the large degree seen in Les Latneuses. Maybe I need to start reading about coticule formation.
I think there are some people with raw chunks of Les Latneuses. Do any of you have high-resolution side views of these? I wonder if it would be possible in the future for Bart to get cross-section samples of different veins from Ardennes, which would run from bottom BBW to top BBW.
My motivation is trying to begin to mentally catalog (and eventually put together documentation of) the visual and performance characteristics of different veins. The veins that are throwing me off a bit are La Grise, La Dressante and Les Latneuses. It's even more confusing that layers other than Les Latneuses have bits of what look like "hybrid" coticule but not to the large degree seen in Les Latneuses. Maybe I need to start reading about coticule formation.