$700+ worth of gemstones found with my detector

[IAMZIM]

Got my covellite finished being cut, and i still have almost half my stone left over! The jeweler estimated each stone at $90.00-$125.00 a peice. So far this stone is the most valuable thing i have found with my ace 250! I acctually got nine stones out of it so far, but only 8 are pictured because i sold one already!<3 gemstones!!!

 

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[onlinesniper]

Amazing finds well done and HH

 

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[Viminacium]

You found stones with metal detector? Wow!!! They look amazing!

 

[hamiddetecting]

God job.

 

[coinshooter]

Hi EagleDown,
Peacock ore and COvellite are not the same.
Peacock ore looks similar, but is much harder. Covellite is really quite soft and is a mess to cut. Everything gets black and stinky.
BUT... Covellite has awesome purple and red color play when it is cut well. It's pretty rare these days.
I bought some at Quartzite and the guy told me he had to dive for it in an old quarry. Perhaps it's where that mine was.
It wasn't cheap even uncut.
I bought a really nice piece of Peacock Ore just the other day at one of those "buy a bag of rocks" places inside a store similar to Discover Store for $2.
I was hoping to cut it because it was so pretty.
IAMZIM,
Are those reflections off of a window onto your stones or are those lines actually on the Covellite?

 

[TheRockCollector]

Nice Finds!

 

[iamfree]

great!

 

[WKB]

I found this piece of what I think is jade in cyucas ca. I was wondering if anybody else knew about the treasures of jade in califorina?

 

[Daneisha]

Beautiful stones! Good Job!

 

[oldsalty19]

very cool looking stone........did it give off a signal on your detector

 

[IAMZIM]

Hi EagleDown,
Peacock ore and COvellite are not the same.
Peacock ore looks similar, but is much harder. Covellite is really quite soft and is a mess to cut. Everything gets black and stinky.
BUT... Covellite has awesome purple and red color play when it is cut well. It's pretty rare these days.
I bought some at Quartzite and the guy told me he had to dive for it in an old quarry. Perhaps it's where that mine was.
It wasn't cheap even uncut.
I bought a really nice piece of Peacock Ore just the other day at one of those "buy a bag of rocks" places inside a store similar to Discover Store for $2.
I was hoping to cut it because it was so pretty.
IAMZIM,
Are those reflections off of a window onto your stones or are those lines actually on the Covellite?

Thanks for the complements on my stones...yes they are reflections of the windows on my house lol! The guy that polished them is VERY good! And yes, covellite is soft, I want to get some peices cut for cuff-links, but he will have to put a quartz cap on them to protect them, but it looks really cool because it gives them a really REDish-purple irridecent look to them. Ill post them when I get a chance to have them done!

 

[IAMZIM]

very cool looking stone........did it give off a signal on your detector

Yep Oldsalty! I use an Ace 250 and it rings up as a solid "dime" signal....weird huh? It is a copper ore and is pretty heavy, so it must have enough copper to set my detector off. There is also iron pyrite scattered throughout the rock, dont know if that also is setting it off.....

 

[rdawg14]

What an awesome find! So cool!

 

[BeachComber7]

Those are beautiful! Love the blue!

 

[Age_old]

Awesome find! Really cool looking