Still have more questions than answers, thanks to ASTROBLEME and Diamond Digger I think I'm getting closer Options

[TheRookie]

Thanks to ASTROBLEME and Diamond Digger for the responses in my previous thread. I really do appreciate the time you've taken to answer some of my questions.

I still have many more questions, but I think I'll start with just a couple and some observations.

Is this what I'd be looking for as far as kimberlitic type material?



Most of it is very black until after it's been exposed to the weather, at that point a yellowish and in some areas a rusty red sort of film starts to form on the outer surface. It's very crumbly, I can break up a lot of it with just my hands, or a light tap or two with a hammer. Most of it is fine-grained, but there are chunks that look more like concrete, and then there are some with more of a crystalline appearance. It's fairly heavy and has a lot of iron in it. After breaking it up about 1/3 to 1/2 can be picked up with a magnet. I also have a lot of nasty yellow clay mixed in with the sand/gravel, which is quite different from the reddish brown clay that I'm used to seeing in this area. If you wash the sand/gravel with water you get a nasty yellowish muck that takes quite a while to settle. Is that what you guys refer to as yellow ground?

[Diamond Digger]

TheRookie..

Here are a few pictures of Kimberlite they are on the site and on the net what you are looking for is Purple Garnets, ilmenite, feldspa, unikite etc
Have fun.
Pic1: Note the green Chromium diopside

Pic 2: Lava ash mix with Kimberlite

Pic 3: The usual indicators close to a pipe

When hunting for a pipe look for these indicators ten hand wash for the green Chromium Diopside crystals and then you know you are within .25 miles from the pipe Cr diopside is brittle and does not travel far, follow it till you it the blue/black rock

Pic 4 here you can see the weathered Kimberlite and the green lava ash, green indicate Chromium Diopside no chromium no diamonds..
Have fun out there.
DD

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