stephent
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Post by stephent on Mar 27, 2014 17:02:24 GMT -5
Got a message and a picture this morning about some rocks a friend had dug up at a temporary parking lot he is building in North Little Rock, Ar. He asked if I was interested.. Poor picture quality from his phone, but I said yes. Went down about 35 miles to where he was and found these laying all around and in one small vein where the dozer had pushed over and broke up a 5 ft seam of this stuff... Quartz? what? Wasted trip and gas on my part? Largest one is probably 10 pounds or more. It's not cleaned very well yet.. but it would make purty stones for the flower bed anyway..
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stephent
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Post by stephent on Mar 27, 2014 17:19:04 GMT -5
ok...I see I managed to become a little smarter..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2014 17:29:46 GMT -5
I like the big one on the left, looks like it has some cool crystals inside
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2014 17:32:17 GMT -5
one right below it to the right looks cool too, I like the formation if its what im seeing.......save em....you drove all that way, no need to throw them out
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stephent
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Post by stephent on Mar 27, 2014 17:55:37 GMT -5
Bad day for lighting stuff up much to take a pic today. Rainy and overcast. I quit picking these up cuz it started to rain...there was one probably over 50 pounds I was working on to get loose...but that track-hoe loading the dump trucks wasn't waiting on my whims. lol I called it good! Actually the rock just below the 2 smaller ones on top left has fully formed quartz-ish points in that little hole.
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stephent
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Post by stephent on Mar 28, 2014 1:02:06 GMT -5
Sawed the end off of one small rock...the one on bottom of original pic. Just what I thought...it's a rock!
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Post by Thunder69 on Mar 28, 2014 10:03:56 GMT -5
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stephent
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Post by stephent on Mar 28, 2014 10:30:14 GMT -5
Thanks Thunder69 ... I've been planning on wandering down that way some week. There's several places to dig or find rocks down there. Have a few friends (ham radio) that live down that way with acreages of rockpiles (whole place in that area is plumb filled to overflowing with rock!) I need to go see too. I did see thru a hole/divot in one of the medium sized rocks a 5/8" wide "flat" on a clearish Quartz crystal. That if whole still will be a biggun! I worked construction for several decades around LR, Arkansas...dug up lots of this stuff. And crystals too. Index finger size was biggest to date. But this was just picked up due to the fact I was tired of staying home...out of wine and had to make a run anyway. I hate dry counties and live in one. :/ A feller can only build so many birdhouses in his shop while waiting on tumbles to complete ya know? lol
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Post by 150FromFundy on Mar 28, 2014 16:03:33 GMT -5
Not too far from here, quartz veins are indicators of gold. The quartz veins that filled the cracks and voids in the bedrock carried gold and other precious metals along for the ride. I'm not sure if this is the case in Arkansas, or if gold is associated with your quartz. Worth checking out.
I didn't know dry counties still existed. Given that the majority of geologist jokes make some reference to over indulgence, I guess you don't have too many of them around.
Darryl.
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stephent
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Post by stephent on Mar 28, 2014 18:48:41 GMT -5
I think there's more dry counties then wet still in Ar :/ ... And I hadn't studied those pockets and veins for those tiny shiny gold colored flecks that you can see from 3 ft away.. yet... much. But I will say I am saving the wash water/mud bucket full since a small bit of "panning" had shown "something" might be there....but they sure are tiny and flattish...might be that "other" stuff instead. lol I have a little piece of equipment coming next week to view/snap pics of stuff up close...very close! I will look and take pics then of "whatever" it might be.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 19:22:54 GMT -5
i don't know much but let a grown man have a drink! sheesh.....the laws the law....but i just don't get it
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Post by jollyrockhound on Mar 31, 2014 11:24:18 GMT -5
yup nice qtz maybe some crystals there in that vein.
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stephent
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Post by stephent on Apr 4, 2014 9:42:44 GMT -5
Well... I finally took a close up pic of those "flecks" I found in the quartz rocks in the cracks and crannies/pockets. The dark smear at the bottom is the point of a medium point ball point pen mark. This is a "slightly" magnified close-up (about 100x?) thru a cheap digital microscope. The little flecks look more "golden" colored in natural light, but this is way into the blue color LEDs mostly lighting this up. They are malleable... cuz I bent one with a sharp point. Any other tests I can do?
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Post by jamesp on Apr 4, 2014 18:30:55 GMT -5
We call that milky quartz here in Georgia stephant. It is the typical quartz we find gold in, up around Dahlonega Ga. It is all over the north half of Georgia and a component of massive granite deposits here too. About 3/4 of the arrowheads here are made out of milky quartz. Have found glassy veins of it that was broken to pieces where the ancients mined it. An ancient quarry. The highest grade is just like milk glass, and is not common. Some of yours are nice examples, especially the bright white on center and left sitting on the tarp. If you find any with this growth in it call me and I will help you load it
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Post by jamesp on Apr 4, 2014 18:39:23 GMT -5
The malleable shiny stuff is mica. It is often found with quartz.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 21:35:27 GMT -5
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