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 18 2011, 07:40 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 5-April 11 From: All of Colorado Member No.: 15,615 |
I did not make it up to the Club meeting this weekend. Last minute change of travel plans and both me and my travel partner having to work late meant I opted to stay closer in to home and hopefully reschedule. I spent most of the weekend rafting down the South Platte River. I was able to get up to my Rabbit Hole for about 3 hours but still did not get to the bottom of it. I opened the opening up quite a little and then cleaned up everything that my new opening allowed me to reach. With my entire upper torso inside the cavity I was able to work the hole by hand in four separate directions, hard left, upper left, straight ahead, and hard right. Hard left and upper left are easy working but seem to have long stopped producing crystals. Straight ahead looks like it is going to “peter-out” quickly into straight hard rock. The right side however is still producing, I just need to widen out the hole again and get better access so I can continue down that way and see how it goes. Some of the crystals come out shinny and smooth and clean up is fairly easy. However most of the material is covered by what could be best described as a hard encrustation. I have found nothing that is effective in removing this outer layer. Soap, hot water, and a stiff bristle plastic brush works the best so far.
One thing that I am kind of excited about is the possibility this pocket or vein will start producing Amazonite Crystals. That is the reason I started to scratch around in this spot in the first place. About 5 yards in front of where I am working is an old outcropping of Amazonite. It has been well worked-over but I thought I would go below it a little bit and see if there were any good leftovers. That’s when I found this pocket. Maybe I will get lucky yet. Later,Woody. -------------------- Proud CP Lifetime Member
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