BLUE CLAY

[hmmm]

HI ALL
can any one enlighten me on blue clay, i have found a small gully, when i pann the blue clay i get lots of black sand.

 

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[Jonoplus]

thanks for that astrobouncer, ill read it later.
have a look at the orange cube, also check out the quartz in the tiny gold fleck.

Orange cube is a clasic pyrope garnet by both colour and shape. Pyrope garnet has a major association with diamonds as they grow together. Pyrope comes in several diamond colour indicators (chrome). Though they will not aften have face structure intact and look more rounded cube is basic garnet stucture. pictures attached

 

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[Jonoplus]

thanks for that astrobouncer, ill read it later.
have a look at the orange cube, also check out the quartz in the tiny gold fleck.

Orange cube is a clasic pyrope garnet by both colour and shape. Pyrope garnet has a major association with diamonds as they grow together. Pyrope comes in several diamond colour indicators (chrome). Though they will not aften have face structure intact and look more rounded cube is basic garnet stucture. pictures attached

 

[newfyviking]

HI ALL
can any one enlighten me on blue clay, i have found a small gully, when i pann the blue clay i get lots of black sand.

Hi All
I want to bring this back for a few reasons , one being my clay has won an award.

 

[RelicFinder77]

Dear hmmm;
As far as I know, blue clay, or blue lead (rhymes with SEED) was a prominent feature in 49er geology and the early prospectors had a very difficult time separating the gold from the blue lead material. The reason why the clay is blue colored is most likely because contains high amounts of silver.

The 49ers called the clay *blue lead* because often times it contained high concentrations of gold, therefore they would follow it and it would *lead* them to gold. If you are recovering large amounts of black sand in the blue lead then that could be a VERY good indicator that gold is also in the immediate vicinity. I like to find high concentrations of black sand because I can usually find gold in the immediate area as well.
Your friend;
LAMAR

Ive heard the same thing with gold and silver alike. iD DEFINITELY BE EXPLORING DEEPER.