Hi everybody,
I am pretty sure I have never posted here, but I have been a lurker for a while, and have gotten tons of help from this site. But I am at a loss here...
The family and I went camping this weekend, and as I always do, I started scooping gravel from one of the local streams to see what I could find. The most interesting thing on nearly every scoop was these little "rocks"...
I am not about to jump to any conclusions here and say I hit the mother lode of diamonds in the wrong part of the state, but I am curious what you guys think they might be. I am leaning towards quartz, but the clarity of some of the stones is amazing, some of them come out of the stream looking like ice. The picture doesn't do these things justice, and I need to clean them up, but the clarity when pulled from the stream was amazing. The larger one near the top left of the image looks like it was cut by a jeweler, it has 12 near perfect facets.
The location found was at multiple sites along a stream southwest of Carbondale, CO. Only about 12 miles from town center. To my knowledge there are no real prominent veins of quartz in the area, and we are near the headwaters of the stream where we camped, maybe only a couple miles away.
Any help you guys can offer in identifying these stones would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
EDIT: Thats a terrible picture once on the site, the full res version is here --> http://imgur.com/3g4hAyd