My last outing, A Weekly posting |
My last outing, A Weekly posting |
May 1 2011, 04:55 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 5-April 11 From: All of Colorado Member No.: 15,615 |
Looking for Amazonite and Crystals
It was suspossed to be a real cold & crappy day around here according to the weather station so I was all set-in for a boering weekend. . I got up and it was cold but clear. Then I listened to the weather report again and it said the snow should start falling around noon. I figured I had about 5 good hours of usable time so I headed up to the local spot in the hills. I wanted to work a spot that I had found the week before and know there is still some "items of interest" left in it. It was a little chilly but that hill will turn up the heat quick. I never made it to my intended spot. As usual, I don't take the same path up the hill twice. I kind of zig-zag up it to the height I want to be at then shoot straight accrossed. This time I stumbled into a different area that hadn't been worked and showed good amazonite. I figured to shoot my entire 5 hour wad at this new sight and call it a day from there. But the expected fowl weather did not set in as expected. So after working that area for awhile I set off in another direction. This time I went prospecting for crystals. By prospecting I mean, randomly digging a small hole here and there and see if something looks good. I trapsed up and down the hillside and found two more spots that had been worked for Amazonite but did not look promising for any good grade specimens. One hole I dug did produce some crystals. I brought back around 70 bits and pieces. All in all I was very satisified with my Saturday. I got to put in around 10 hours of hill time on what was suspossed to be a crappy day and found more areas that need worked. In the pic you can see the Amazonite clearly but the other crystals are, well kind of lumpy. I believe they are "Pseudo-morphed" or something. Not sure. Anybody got any guesses?? Later, Woody -------------------- Proud CP Lifetime Member
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Jul 9 2011, 12:05 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,196 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Sweet update, and great looking finds Chris! Don't you just love finding gold in all the spots you test?
Makes me think of being in a chocolate factory...........too many choices, but enough time to test it all! Sweet being a claim owner isn't it Chris? QUOTE As for the garnets, there was some that were too big to fit through the #8 screen. How big do they have to be for you to be able to work them on a polisher? Maybe next time I go there I, "or Chris", can save you a sample. Woody Sounds great Woody, even the smaller chips can be worked into a project, even if its too small to polish. If I can fit it on my finger tip, I can polish it. I was going to use unpolished Garnets for the snowman's eyes I made, but decided not to. Dan said it looked best just as it was, so I went with his oppinion. I do have a larger snowman in the works made of Colorado white banded agate that I was wanting to use Colorado garnets for, and those sound perfect! What colors of Garnets have you guys been finding? I can see them in the pictures, but can't really tell the colors well. Thanks for offering Woody! What would really be cool is if I could get up there and find some for myself. Looks like were missing out on some good times, great people and sweet finds! -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥ |
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