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 31 2011, 06:12 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 5-April 11 From: All of Colorado Member No.: 15,615 |
Did the family outing thing this weekend,
Loaded up the trailer, family, & the dog and headed to Pueblo Lake for the weekend. This place is located very close to the Front Range but still offers everything from hunting small game in the winter to jumping off the cliffs in the summer. It also has several hidden talents as well. If a person knows where to look they could easily find fossilized Clams as big as Cantaloupes, a wide variety of Shark teeth, and even some Crystallized Iron Pyrite. This Pyrite is every interesting. It is commonly found in these thick layers of shale as a rusty inclusion that can be solid or crumbly. But occasionally it is a perfect round ball and solid pyrite inside. It seems that only the round ones are solid pyrite and the ones that are not perfect spheres are crumblier or only about half pyrite. I read or heard somewhere that the pyrite formed in deep, oxygen depleted seas. Interesting! This set of pics shows the size of the clams and also shows some of the Pyrite inclusions. Have a good one, Woody. -------------------- Proud CP Lifetime Member
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