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Post by mohs on Aug 19, 2021 20:25:12 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure it gneiss saw this rock while photo ing at the Papago’s immediately said that nice !  went to photographic it but decided it was so nice I’ll bring it home The little gray rock I've had for sometime Pretty sure its gneiss to Well I really like it! |
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Post by perkins17 on Aug 19, 2021 20:31:14 GMT -5
mohs, that's a really nice rock what are you going to do with it? Slab it and cab it?
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Post by mohs on Aug 19, 2021 20:43:42 GMT -5
yo perkz
I'd like to slice one slab
and make a gneiss heart
I don't think I ever have
but gneiss is not great lapidary material
saw time for slabs can be at premium
so that particular piece will stay intact
that little gray piece I could manually saw a slab
but probably just keep it as a display
if I get the rock'n heart factory productive again
definitely put a gneiss heart on the bucket list
pretty abundant material
so I could easily find contrasting nice rocks
to make one heart
easy
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Post by mohs on Aug 19, 2021 20:54:13 GMT -5
my combo idea would be something like this  |
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Post by mohs on Aug 21, 2021 14:14:11 GMT -5
thanks for the likes guys !
I did no justice w/ the photo
for such a nice rock
I'll have to work on that...
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Post by mohs on Aug 28, 2021 15:03:50 GMT -5
fyi
i'm awaiting the right moment
to update the photo
to something nicer
fingers crossed moji
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 28, 2021 22:01:37 GMT -5
Nice gneiss Ed!  |
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Post by mohs on Aug 29, 2021 19:20:30 GMT -5
a couple trail rocks that caught my attention  I was coming back from the lily trail. Overheated and sweaty. So just a quick snap w/the elf That dark mafic feldspardish rock really gleamed bright in the sun I grabbed it and dropped it quickly. Luckily… right by a felsic type rock. From what little I know The dark one as a schistose texture. Formed from lava deep under ground. Igneous The light one I’m not so sure? I think it’s a rhyolyte? Hence igneous Forming from cooling lava above ground. Yet it may be a sedimentary rock. Anyway there lot of that variety about So I will be able to inspect further When it cools down, and hopefully I’ll know more Keep on… Mohs |
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Post by mohs on Sept 6, 2021 15:12:25 GMT -5
hard to capture the gneiss sheen  of what caught my eye on the trail bumped up the dark filter a little and some shows, nicely |
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Post by mohs on Sept 16, 2021 13:01:20 GMT -5
stop the car roadside big gneiss  i picked up that small piece of quartz trail sting papago it seems to have some gold included mineralization  |
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Post by mohs on Oct 6, 2021 16:43:37 GMT -5
I stumbled upon a chryschola bonanza !  Huge huge I mean mega tones of excavated rock pile dumped as a berm for the Salt River. I just did a quick cursory view Definitely saw turquoise Probably 98.3% is not cuttable lapidary material Butte that leaves 1.7% gemmarbly & that what rock hounding about..no? & dazagneiss  |
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Post by miket on Oct 6, 2021 16:51:24 GMT -5
Score! |
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Post by RickB on Oct 6, 2021 18:29:07 GMT -5
Nice finds. I like the blue one in the right top corner.
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Post by mohs on Oct 6, 2021 19:06:30 GMT -5
Yeah guys !
That blue one I pretty sure is azurite
I should have brought it home
Butte I stashed it
will reconnaissance the area when
a clouded rainy day descend again
some nice colors there
& some gemmy cuttable material
to be found within
if I do find -I'll let ya knohs
and if you can use
we will set that up...
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Post by mohs on Oct 8, 2021 13:43:58 GMT -5
Do a little pick’n & grin'n in 'schola pile  Some of the chys veins run deep Nothing hard enough or crystallize yet, that cuttable Butte it there Plus the few little pieces I dug out are Speckled w/ copper and/or chalcopyrite so interesting... next few days are cooling even further down get to some serious hound.... Unfortunately that turquoise shade is just oxidize Surface film so far… |
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Post by mohs on Oct 9, 2021 16:22:38 GMT -5
Trying to figure out what the host mineralized rock is?  I say mineralized because it seems to be some type of metallic ore. assume the red to be a thin oxide layer of rust. The black host rock is massive hard dense shiny Ask questions! Because I just typed up a long convoluted description that no one would suffer through reading ha! And I really like to get a clue what this stuff is ... closer inspection it possible that the black is desert vanish I detectd crystals of pyrite in the underlying matrix |
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Post by mohs on Oct 10, 2021 19:54:21 GMT -5
Here a pretty big solid chunk from the pile Solid quartz copper derivative mineral imbued rock Must be 25lbs,  Have to give it some thought if I want put in LadMo bag. Although it is fairly easy  stroll Not sure it would meet the standards of gem silica ? But it would polish fine. Whether there is any variation in color hard to tell Butte my experience as been that as you polish shades and metal gleams shows up chalcopyrite |
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Post by quartzilla on Oct 16, 2021 8:22:38 GMT -5
Here a pretty big solid chunk from the pile Solid quartz copper derivative mineral imbued rock Must be 25lbs, Have to give it some thought if I want put in LadMo bag. Although it is fairly easy stroll Not sure it would meet the standards of gem silica ? But it would polish fine. Whether there is any variation in color hard to tell Butte my experience as been that as you polish shades and metal gleams shows up chalcopyrite it looks like quite a bit of quartz in that. We’re me I’d lug it home and give it a slice. |
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Post by mohs on Oct 16, 2021 15:19:52 GMT -5
Yo quartzilla That lugging operation is in the plans soon The rock does appear to be very silicon hefty of the clear type would imagine the slabs would have translucency Where do you reside? Do you have a saw capable slabbing that chunk? Its a monster. So an expense it would be to send, and certain amount of hassle Butte- may be able to split it in more manageable chunks If so- be happy to send some We’ll shall see,,,, |
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Post by Rockoonz on Oct 16, 2021 21:30:24 GMT -5
Well Mohs you knows a guy with a saw or four. Indoor shop is fully functional now, working on setting up outdoor big rock tools and winter work area as well.
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