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 12 2011, 11:30 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 5-April 11 From: All of Colorado Member No.: 15,615 |
Another Crystal run,
I just got my Truck out of the shop right after work this evening, "still one more visit left", and had to go back up on the mountain to see if anyone had found my hole yet. Of course by the time I got to the top it had started to rain again but everything was just as I left it and I quickly shoved my arm inside the hole. And for the next 2 hours I was that kid in a candy store again. I was pulling larger crystals out than the last time. All the work was done by hand. You could feel around inside the hole and removed whatever you grabbed onto without much effort. The opening of the hole was difficult to enlarge so I concentrated on removing everything I could at arms length. Big sections of crystals and Microline came out along with the occasional nice semi-smokie crystal. I removed handful upon handfuls of crushed rock type stuff. Mixed in with this material was nice larger plates of crystals. Some of the plates even have Rhombus shaped Fluorite on them. Of course I am hoping it will start to show Amazonite in with the Microline. The hole is probably more like a crack along a vug line than a hole. I can feel spaces going down between sections of plates and sometimes a small rock will fall between one of these sections and I can hear it continue falling several feet below me. Who knows what this little bitty hole might produce. The opening still stayed about the same size but inside I removed enough material to fit as many as three basketballs and it is longer than my fingertips to the end of my shoulder. As it got dark I once again had to leave my little Rabbit hole and I know there is still good stuff left in there. I could feel a bigger plate with nice smooth sections on it. This feels to be the biggest crystal piece yet. I'm going to have to leave it alone for a while and hope no one else stumbles on to it. My evenings are filled up from here to the weekend and I am going to leave for that Lifetime Outing trip this Friday night. So if anyone goes out looking for my secret spot, let me give you a hint; It is north of the equator! Have a good one, Woody.~ -------------------- Proud CP Lifetime Member
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