Post by mateoj on May 25, 2014 18:22:17 GMT -5
Had the opportunity yesterday to visit Bill at the Blue Crystal Mine in the La Sal mountains of Utah and do some digging in the tailings of his pit mine (for a fee of course ha ha ha)
The place is littered with what they call "blueberries" or little concretions of azurite. Some more blue than others. The bigger ones are super rare and hard to come by these days
You can also find the same thing with malachite. When we first got there I saw these two big pieces of clusters of malachite balls
I even found a piece of agate that had some malachite growth on it. The guy said that was pretty rare
Here are some of the bigger/nicer pieces of the azurite/malachite
And then lastly some of the good malachite pieces. I'm still not sure how to tell the difference between malachite and chrysacolla when the malachite gets into that lighter green, but maybe one of yall could help me with that. Perhaps there is some kind of hybrid? Or I could be way off base.
Again thanks for looking guys. Major props to my wife because our little baby girl is due in a few weeks and she still lets me go hounding on Saturdays until she comes
The place is littered with what they call "blueberries" or little concretions of azurite. Some more blue than others. The bigger ones are super rare and hard to come by these days
You can also find the same thing with malachite. When we first got there I saw these two big pieces of clusters of malachite balls
I even found a piece of agate that had some malachite growth on it. The guy said that was pretty rare
Here are some of the bigger/nicer pieces of the azurite/malachite
And then lastly some of the good malachite pieces. I'm still not sure how to tell the difference between malachite and chrysacolla when the malachite gets into that lighter green, but maybe one of yall could help me with that. Perhaps there is some kind of hybrid? Or I could be way off base.
Again thanks for looking guys. Major props to my wife because our little baby girl is due in a few weeks and she still lets me go hounding on Saturdays until she comes
