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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Aug 6 2013, 04:13 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Members Posts: 1,301 Joined: 17-February 12 From: Central CO Member No.: 41,357 |
He does not have a slab saw, but he is going to tumble all the pieces - even the larger ones! I still have more if anyone has a slab saw and wants to cut some cabs - or even hearts - Denise, are you listening? - I also have more interesting things that have washed down the hill due to our storms - even some grey volcanic stuff that has mica and tiny garnets (garnets are a maybe - but they flash red). Large chunks of ugly quartz and some nice sized chunks of pink feldspar, plus more epidote and unakite. There is rose quartz too, but very fissured and fractured, with feldspar and other inclusions. It's not the pretty rose color either - just an ugly dirty whitish and uneven pink. I kind of want to polish the corners of some of this stuff, but I don't have anything to do it with. Oh well, I don't have the time to do it anyway.
The offer's there - anyone want some epidote rock samples to cut and polish? -------------------- Caveman
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