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Post by vegasjames on Jun 22, 2022 19:03:10 GMT -5
Just got back from a 3 week trip to go take care of my dad. Made a few stops on the way up including a couple of new locations I have been meaning to check out, then 2 more spots including one new one on the way back. Still cleaning and photographing stuff, but here is some of what has been done so far.
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Post by jasoninsd on Jun 22, 2022 19:56:12 GMT -5
Quite a variety of material James! I'm glad you were able to take in some hounding time as well as "dad time"!
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 22, 2022 21:19:42 GMT -5
Agree with Jason, quite the variety! Wow! Some of those are really gemmy looking. What are the yellow? Opal or sulfur?
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jun 22, 2022 21:57:40 GMT -5
You sure do find beautiful stuff! 4th picture down - what is the purple?
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 22, 2022 22:35:27 GMT -5
Agree with Jason, quite the variety! Wow! Some of those are really gemmy looking. What are the yellow? Opal or sulfur? Neither. They are chalcedony with carnotite (potassium vanadium uranium oxide) and oxyplumboroméite, a lead antimony ore. Hard to tell the two apart as they look alike and both occur in the location. Tested some of the rocks I dug from that location though and they are radioactive. Not super high, but enough that it is not a good idea to handle them too much.
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 22, 2022 22:36:54 GMT -5
You sure do find beautiful stuff! 4th picture down - what is the purple? Quartz, probably colored by manganese, which is common in that area.
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quartzilla
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Post by quartzilla on Jun 23, 2022 3:18:34 GMT -5
I dub thee The King Of Copper Ore.
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Post by fernwood on Jun 23, 2022 5:10:06 GMT -5
Nice diggings. I really like the blue/turquoise colored crystals in some.
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 23, 2022 8:23:56 GMT -5
Nice diggings. I really like the blue/turquoise colored crystals in some. The darker blue glassy stuff is turquoise. Not sure on the lighter blue stuff. Looks kind of like rosasite. Not planning on doing much testing on the lighter blues with the quartz since those are the pieces that also have some uranium associated wit them.
Did you see the face in pic 11? Someone had brought up that it looks like it was one of those slow motion hits, and even has teeth.
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