CP Treasure Chest, Pick your treasure Options

[ColoradoProspect...]

Hello everyone,

This is the new CP treasure chest! In future contests or drawings held here at ColoradoProspector.com, you might win the chance to pick your own prize from the treasure chest.
Keep your eyes open as you browse around the site and visit often because you just never know when or where the next contest or clue might be found!

As time goes on there will be additions to this thread for choices of goodies too.
This particular thread will be locked but feel free to start another about it with q's if needed anytime.

We like to do things a bit different around here and at events as many of you know. Picking ones own prize for drawings/contests has always worked out well for everyone so we will continue that CP tradition online.
Following posts will have prize choices. See you all soon and good luck!

CP

[ColoradoProspect...]

Mineral specimen lot #1
A beautifully white and sparkly clean microcline/albite in combination with smokey quartz crystals all around (shown center right in picture) is the show piece of this lot. Size of the show piece is a miniature at just under 2.5" and is a micromount delight!
Also included for this lot, another smokey quartz crystal that at first glance appears to be broken which it was.....but mother nature has tried to fix the broken end over time and the broken end now has been "mended" naturally with many small terminations. The other pieces are, geothite (micromount), a nice pale amazonite crystal with good form, a pseudomorph hematite after siderite (awesome sheen and form), and another light tan colored microcline/albite formation with awesome shape and sheen too!



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Pair of antique silver spoons Chosen for Geocache #3 prize - Found by Johnny in Colorado 7/2/09.
Alaskan origin late 1800's-A really nice pair of Yukon territory spoons.
Both have gold nuggets mounted on the handles and one says "Mayo Y.T." in the dish and the other "Yukon" on the handle.




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Smokey Quartz crystal & Geothite combination (Club Membership Drive 08's 1st place pick by Rich in Colorado)
This is a large Smokey Quartz crystal with Goethite and a bit of microcline matrix.
Weighing just over 2 lbs and standing approx 4.5" high x 3.75" wide x 3.0" deep.

A very nice sized piece and the Goethite is approx. 2.25" x 2.0".

There is an overgrowth layer on the quartz crystal faces containing another light material just underneath that shades view inside the crystal.



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(Summer 09' seasonal drawing pick by Richard & Becky in Mississippi)
Triple pack-3 CP Placer Dirts from Fairplay Colorado (2 lb bags)
Great for curbin' a bit of the cabin fever or sharing with friends! Every bag has gold!



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[ColoradoProspect...]

Next in the treasure chest are 2 Smokey Quartz faceted stones.

1 round brilliant cut (girdle slightly uneven), beautiful light champagne color. 8.5 mm
Cut in the USA, Origin- Dreamtime mine, Lake George Colorado. Approx: 2.5 ct - lower right

1 tear drop cut medium-dark color 14 x 9 mm Approx: 4.46 ct
Origin unknown. upper left

[ColoradoProspect...]

Next, 30 item grab box rough lot - 13.5 lbs in total for your lapidary work.

Rough pieces:
Jade - black, dark green Approx: 1.75 lbs (5 pieces)
Origin - Wyoming, from the original discoverer of jade in Wyoming (my grandfather) Lloyd and his partner.
These pieces come from my grandpa's personal stash of his original claim in the mid 30's begining the Wyoming "jade rush". He sold a large piece (2400 lbs) of "imperial" green to be used in carvings for the emporer of Japan from this same claim according to the family folklore.

Also included in this lot are 4 Del Norte Colorado agate/chalcedony pieces, 2 Arizona petrified wood, another tan petrified wood (unknown origin) which is opalized, 3 pieces Az. fire agate, 1 malachite/azurite, 7 misc. varied colors of chalcedony pieces, 6 cut slabs (two green moss agate, one Az. yellow petrified wood, one brown/black petrified wood from Eden valley Wyoming, one orange/brown petrified wood from South Park Colorado) and finally to finish the rough lapidary lot, a 2 lb bag of Arizona petrified wood/chaceldony's for tumbling.

(Seasonal Drawing 3/20/10 treasure picked by Hank in Florida)



This post has been edited by ColoradoProspector: Jun 25 2010, 09:15 AM

Reason for edit: Chosen treasure for seasonal drawing 3/20/10

[ColoradoProspect...]

Next we are adding a Rutilated Quartz snowman sculpture by Denise (Mrs.CP)
(Club Membership Drive 08's 3rd place pick by Dennis in Oregon)
Approx: 1 5/8" tall x 7/8" wide at the base ball.
Comes in three seprate pieces (not mounted)
Snowman in Rutilated Quartz, Top hat in Smokey Quartz, with a pedastel of Botswanian agate.

[ColoradoProspect...]

This one can be fun without the sun!
Gold Concentrates with clean up pan and vial.
1/2 day's work with a 3" combination highbanker unit working in good paydirt equating to approximately 1/2 yard of material concentrated down to the golden goodies. Straight from the highbanker as if you cleaned it out yourself.....just add water!!
Approximately 8 lbs dry weight.


(Club Membership Drive 08's 2nd place pick by Ken in Colorado)
(Seasonal Drawing 3/9 picked by Randy in Kansas)

*Gold Concentrates unavailable till further notice(3/21/09)*


You may be panning more than one day with these!

[ColoradoProspect...]

Today we are adding some antiques........a little something for everyone can be found in the CP treasure chest!

This is a set of 3 railroad spikes & 2 glass insulators.
One standard and two narrow gauge and the glass insulators are slightly broken.
Just some cool old stuff for someones collection. All from Colorado's old time.

[ColoradoProspect...]

This is a nice silver blue and gold combination pendant.

Amazonite flower carving with Colorado gold flakes for center pieces.
Wrapped with twisted sterling silver and 14k gold filled wire combination.
Stone is approximately 1.25" and total height with wrap is 1.87".
Mrs.CP and I both worked on this piece and the back is carved and polished as well.

Chosen for Geocache #5 prize - Found by Johnny in Colorado 8/4/09.

[ColoradoProspect...]

Next is a very colorful hunk of Arizona petrified wood - weight is right at 2 lbs or maybe just a little over.
Size approximately 3" tall x 3.5" deep front to back x 3" wide.

This piece is a CP website icon so to speak as it's been used in several topics for the forum and in the kid's page puzzles for many educational purposes. Could be carved or sculpted, cut for cabbing and and ....
Or even left as is for your collection. Image shown with surface wet to show colors.

[ColoradoProspect...]

Ok this one will appeal to the faceters out there we think.

Rough Smokey Quartz crysttals for faceting - Approximately 124 grams +
From the world famous Dreamtime Mine in Colorado. All mined by myself and Mrs.CP and hand picked by us for clarity.
A nice range of colors from light to darks. We estimate that a 50% loss or so will be encountered through finishing.
So hopefully you will end up with somewhere around 60 grams or 300 cts of clean workable material. We are not faceters ourselves but we have screened these to be some without a "milky" center. We can see very nice transparency in some or most of each piece. Piece sizes range from largest at right center 1.75" x .75" down to .5" for smallest length.

[ColoradoProspect...]

This is a moss agate guitar pick made from a Priday ranch Thunderegg. Very pretty purple hues with green and red spalshes of color.
Classic style/size and appox. 2.3mm thick. Solid and has an excellent polish.
In hand there are many clear pockets when held up to a light source. WOW!

We thought this would be a nice additon for the treasure chest.

[ColoradoProspect...]

This cute little nugget has been added to a single bag of Fairplay Placer dirt. Weight is 0.3 gram and what a chunky lil' beauty! Comes in a normal CP Placer Dirt with vial (Fairplay) and we are also throwing in a nugget case to keep it in.
Pan it out at home this winter for practice/excitement!

Chosen for Geocache #1 prize - Found by Johnny in Colorado 6/30/09.



This post has been edited by ColoradoProspector: Jun 25 2010, 09:18 AM

Reason for edit: Chosen prize - CP club geocache #1 6/30/09

[Mrs.CP]

Lot of 12 Cabochons.
3 Amazonites, 3 White Opals, 1 Mexican Opal, 1 Turritella, 1 Sow Belly Agate, 1 Rutilated Quartz, 1 Sodalite and 1 Bloody Basin Agate cabachon.
This lot will make a great gift for someone who wraps. Largest cab (Sodalite) measuring 20mm.

[Mrs.CP]

This Oregon Thunderegg makes a great addition to the treasure chest, fresh off the polisher.

[Mrs.CP]

You like antiques, and photography? This little Stereographic card of a floating dredge in the harbor will make a great addition to your collection.
In perfect condition, with the glass intact.