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 7 2011, 10:08 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 5-April 11 From: All of Colorado Member No.: 15,615 |
Mrs. CP,
We did very little panning. Almost all of our test areas were small bucket loads ran through the sluice. The stream has to be modified to even get a spot deep enough to pan. The bank is that dark black, clayish, bog stuff in a lot of places and can easily be cut into a perfect mold for the sluice. Which is a good thing because it takes almost every drop of water that brook has to be able to run your material. Most of my gold was recovered right off the black mat. I was able to pick 5 pieces up by fingertips and place them in my sucker bottle. The picture does not do these flakes any Justice. The biggest would not even fit in the tube of the sucker bottle. I really think in just a short time Ol' Chris will be into the good stuff. 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 . -------------------- Proud CP Lifetime Member
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Jul 10 2011, 08:22 AM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 4,459 Joined: 25-August 09 From: way on up thar Member No.: 6,983 |
As for the garnets, there was some that were too big to fit through the #8 screen. Here are some of those crunchy Garnets. -------------------- /l ,[____], l---L-OlllllllO- ()_) ()_)--o-)_) BLACK SANDS MATTER! Very Happy CP Lifetime Member CP CORE TEAM Referral Code CE213 |
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Jul 10 2011, 11:05 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 5-April 11 From: All of Colorado Member No.: 15,615 |
Nice Pic of the Gernets Swizz. It sure looks to me like those are big enough to work. Now it will be extra hard to keep our noses out of the screenings. LOL.
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