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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9424108, member: 2844&quot;]No, yours isn&#039;t Moroccan copal. Those particular beads are darkened from being worn over a very long period of time. Skin grease, sweat and dirt have become engrained in the copal. As you can see, the dark areas are only on the sides of the beads that were in touch with grease and sweat, there is no black veining.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some types of copal can react to UV, usually whitish, but also green and even blue, like this copal from Madagascar:</p><p><a href="https://www.geologysuperstore.com/product/fluorescent-copal/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.geologysuperstore.com/product/fluorescent-copal/" rel="nofollow">https://www.geologysuperstore.com/product/fluorescent-copal/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But your beads don&#039;t look like copal to me either.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>It looks like the beads are varnished, or maybe that is just the photos. Some varnishes also fluoresce, depending on the colourants that were added.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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