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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Sep 14 2011, 07:07 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 5-April 11 From: All of Colorado Member No.: 15,615 |
Weekend Prospecting,
Headed up north again this weekend and did a little poking around. Did not spend much time processing material but rather did some research on foot surveying the place. It took me the better part of the day to be satisfied with what I was doing. The drainage I was looking in has very little to no water. I have been doing some work in the high end of it and must hand carry my buckets a short distance to the wheelbarrow, then it is about a ¼ mile hike to the creek. I need to look seriously at getting or making some kind of recirculation highbanker system. For the rest of the year however I have conceded that I will just have to be content to be a Mule. I managed to find time to run 8 buckets of unscreened dirt through my sluice. The first two buckets were from the same spot I was working before and showed fair color and nice large Garnets. The next two buckets came from a new test hole. I took this sample from about 20 inches below the ground surface. I found no garnets of any size and absolutely no color at all. I went back to my first spot and took two more buckets. This time I made an effort to make sure all material came from deeper than the normal layer of material I was working in. Again, Zilch! Nothing! No color and no sizable Garnets. I then took my last two buckets from only an inch or so below the surface. Immediately I found nice sized garnets and color. All in all I really didn’t find much in the way of color but when you consider that it all came from only 4 unscreened buckets then I was very satisfied with the results. Also I determined that it was not necessary to dig any deeper than just a few inches down and will use this information to the full extent as I continue to work the location. I’ll be back as soon as I can and will let you know how it goes, Woody. -------------------- Proud CP Lifetime Member
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