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Hey guys if you have any rocks you want identified,, or are having a problem with the composition, Post it with questions, and a brief summary of where you got it..I'm down to help!
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More finds from today. All opinions welcome love to get some knowledge about these. Aloha
Hello,are you living in Hawaii?
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Tom
Dusted you coffee? full pot. you, my friend would have a ball here. the area is probably as twisted and broken up as any that i have seen. I will post a few pictures for all to see, the mineral samples still to come Focusing and lighting problems.View attachment 811317View attachment 811318
Found in an old pile at abandoned mine
Picked up a bunch of different rocks today up in desert ridge Arizona. Here is just one of about 20. Haha is this some type of ore? The last two photos are of what looks to be a huge nugget I found halfway buried under a tree In a dryed up wash. All the rocks came from same spot in desert ridge at undisclosed area ha. Ill up load the rest when I get some time
More finds from today. All opinions welcome love to get some knowledge about these. Aloha
heres an easy one for you Dust.......
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hi dusted,i read your interest is copper,so i thought id share some photos of copper here south of the border. we tried cementation,and got a 60 % concentrate. the other photo is a deposit we looked at. i have other copper photos ill try to find and post. hope you like them.
#1 and 2 are granite, with hematite wash..
#2,3,4,5,6,7, have to be a sulphur compound.. otherwise you got some of the largest finds in a while (post those dry please!)
#8,9 are a cuparitic schist... with naice mineralization! iron copper.. garnets.. all check a lil pyrite! Crush Grind !!1 yay!
#10 (post a dry one of this too please!) looks to be a Quartz/ granite mix with hematite or magnatite vein (decent iron on it too) water is throwing me of a little tho... probably not good toward grinding..
#11 nice pyrite/sulphur mix FeS2
Color: Brassy yellow color; opaque
Streak: Black/green tinge
Luster: Metallic
Hardness: 6-6.5 (scratches glass)
Density: 4.9-5.2
Cleavage: none
Fracture: conchoidal to uneven
Habit: cubes, pyritohedrons, and octahedrons
System: Isometric
EX. Used in production of sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid. Brittle and harder than gold.
also looks to have schist in it so may also be a Sulfosalt: like Cobaltite is a sulfosalt mineral composed of cobalt, arsenic and sulfur, CoAsS. It contains up to 10 percent iron and variable amounts of nickel.[3] Structurally it resembles pyrite (FeS2) with one of the sulfur atoms replaced by an arsenic atom.
#13 (last?LMAO) is a garnetic schist (possible copper probably closely related to # 9/10 more decayed ... i see mica but not the iron.. (IE decay) it has probably "Rotted out " of the face of the rock... bust it open!
Ok so here is the rock in photos 2-7 dry. It has def feels very dense and is not magnetic and has no smell. What steps should I take to come to a conclusion if sulfate or gold because if it is gold then this is a huge nugget and just guessing to a qurter to 1/2 a pound. And it almost has characteristics to this nugget in the last photo in the way that its like a thick layer of metal over another rock. Any steps and things I should check would be awesome. You never know. I found it buried almost 3 inch under a dead trees roots in the dry wash. Ok and the last 4 starting with the first nugget looking thing dry and it is not magnetic and the last to are same nugget as the one in photos 2-7. Let me know what you think brotha