coasthunterjay
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Post by coasthunterjay on May 26, 2009 22:28:29 GMT -5
Kind of interested...I believe I found an area under some steep cliffs with alot....ALOT OF QUARTZ VEIN pieces and I was kind of wondering if any one has tumbled it or done anything with slabs of quartz vein or breaking the slabs up and tumbling the pieces......? much like this but with out the gold...and the ones i have been finding are similar in color. Some yellowish tinted, some brown, some pure white.... MAYBE IT WOULD BE WORTH GETTING A BUNCH AND TUMBLING JUST FOR KICKS.....Thought ide ask you all first though.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2009 23:06:29 GMT -5
Jay,
Theres a ton of quartzy material in our neck of the woods. If you find it interesting, heck yeah tumble it. Quartz is hard, it tumbles nicely. Its very common and it comes in many colors.........in the Northwest its generally white, tan, brownish.......nothing terribly exciting unfortunately. If you are lucky you will find aventurine which is quartz that contains shimmery mica. I find quite a bit of pink aventurine here where I live and it makes pretty cabs/tumbles .
Shan
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coasthunterjay
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Post by coasthunterjay on May 27, 2009 0:05:10 GMT -5
THANKS SHANNON...YOU ROCK.....was that some aventurine in the pictures of your rocks you found on the beach....? in another post? kind of has pink and yellow looking spots?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 2:07:22 GMT -5
Hey Jay,
No, not aventurine in those pics but I will send you a pm tomorrow with some pics of the pink aventurine I find here.
Shan
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 12:25:16 GMT -5
Hey Jay, Here are a few pics of some pink Aventurine Ive found around home. You can separate the Aventurine from the common quartz you find just by looking for the shimmery flecks of mica......you can clearly see it in these photos.   This one is very special to me for certain reasons......it is always kept in my pocket.  |
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Post by 150FromFundy on May 27, 2009 16:47:24 GMT -5
In our neck of the woods, gold is almost always associated with quartz. They boil up together in magma flows forming veins in the neighbouring bedrock. You're quartz sample, from a vein, was rimmed with gold!
Just curious, but did you check out the gold? It would be a little ironic to think you were throwing away the gold to get at the quartz. Just curious.
150FromFundy
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 17:21:06 GMT -5
I think the photo he posted was an example only........and the material in question that he is finding does not contain gold.
Shannon
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coasthunterjay
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Post by coasthunterjay on May 27, 2009 20:22:47 GMT -5
THANKS SHANNON......Thanks everyone....yah i think there is alot of that where i go searching also....alot of everything.....not alot of people make it out as far as i go so alot of good stuff under the cliffs....
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