Kimberlite pipes Options

[leonard]

Here's a little item I found on another forum.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id...onds_to_surface



This thin slice of a kimberlite rock from northern Canada, seen through a microscope and in polarized light, shows colorful minerals caught up in magma that rose from deep within the Earth.

Leonard

[Denise]

Those look like some nice indicators to me Musk Rat! Keep up the good hunt.

[Musk_Rat]

Thanks Denise and DD.

DD something more like this?

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[Diamond Digger]

Hi MR
Nope do not recognise that type.
There are no quarts associated with kimberlite indicators.
Have fun out there!
Not easy to find diamond bearing indicators......
Major mining companies spend $$ millions a year trying to find them.
You got the spot you got the info..... Once you start washing that topsoil you will see the indicators I gave here.
DD

Thanks Denise and DD.

DD something more like this?

[Musk_Rat]

DD,
I appreciate the insight. Not what I wanted to hear but I still appreciate it. Peer review is the hardest thing to swallow sometimes, but is important to keep you honest and on the right track. I wish color was the only important identifying factor. I saw purple and got very excited, but overlooked the possibility that it could be some other purple mineral. I have still set them aside to be potentially tested and haven't given up that they could be purple garnets, but they could also be little amethyst chips instead of little garnet chips.

The search continues and I'm not giving up on my spot. I'm finding everything that points to a deposit except the right minerals to convince you lol(wet/depressed area, blue sticky mud, variety of minerals nodules that don't belong there, but there is a creek cutting across/through it so there are upstream minerals mixed in)

Thanks again DD and I'm going to check out your area this spring.

[Diamond Digger]

MR,
Yeah it is easy to convince yourself something is close by however the minerals do not lie as they only come from one source.
Chromium diopside is a very brittle green see through crystal, you can powder it to dust between your fingers. They do not travel far from a pipe, about .75 miles then they are absorbed in the dust. Once you find such a crystal then you are so close!
Very good luck!
DD

DD,
I appreciate the insight. Not what I wanted to hear but I still appreciate it. Peer review is the hardest thing to swallow sometimes, but is important to keep you honest and on the right track. I wish color was the only important identifying factor. I saw purple and got very excited, but overlooked the possibility that it could be some other purple mineral. I have still set them aside to be potentially tested and haven't given up that they could be purple garnets, but they could also be little amethyst chips instead of little garnet chips.

The search continues and I'm not giving up on my spot. I'm finding everything that points to a deposit except the right minerals to convince you lol(wet/depressed area, blue sticky mud, variety of minerals nodules that don't belong there, but there is a creek cutting across/through it so there are upstream minerals mixed in)

Thanks again DD and I'm going to check out your area this spring.