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It looks like shell tempered to me. But photos are not the best to show what the temper is made of. If you can't tell when you are holding it in hand I don't understand why you think a picture would be much help to us. I suggest you dig out some of the temper and look at it under magnification. That should tell you.
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If it is shell you can scratch a piece off and and rub it to dust in your fingers, the shell will look like chalk. If it is quartz(doesn’t look like it) then you will be holding tiny grains of sand you can’t crush.
i break a piece to see the cross section of it. If you do, the shell will break too, the grit will stay in one side or the other...Wandering wherever I can, mostly in Eastern Arkansas, always looking down.
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Tom has the best way but just knowing your area and all those net weights I am going with shell to keep it simple .
You can tell red if you look at it under a loop . We have so much of that sugar gold look and see if there is any in your pieces I sent you . I have some that glitter in the sun .
Lumpkin a county over was the gold rush before Cali
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