rock rook ← needs help again....

[Steve1236]

I hiked back in to that spot real early morning near vulture mine Wickenburg Az and grabbed a couple buckets of that garnet matrix in qaurtz, I boiled a couple in vinegar to clean them up a bit and that green liquid is just simple green, anybody know what kind garnets these are and what the other minerals are? Thnx....

 

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[Steve1236]

This is defenetly my favorite from that spot, I like garnet/mica/gold in
Blueish quartz, though I think its the garnet giving it that color.

 

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[IAMZIM]

Hey guy's just a "question" I've been at google images again and I'm thinking the black mineral is tourmaline? By chance maybe those aren't garnets at all but uvite and dravite tourmaline?

By going on the shape of the crystals, I'm still thinking they are garnets. Just my two cents...... I'm agreeing with Eu Citizen and DDancer.

 

[Steve1236]

I agree but I had to ask, I'm guessing almadine but I'll have to get it looked at. What's new with you IAMZIM any new finds?

 

[Steve1236]

Manganese?

 

[IAMZIM]

I agree but I had to ask, I'm guessing almadine but I'll have to get it looked at. What's new with you IAMZIM any new finds?

I have, but have not had time to post them lol! I'll try and make time soon....

 

[Steve1236]

I found a mining mineral report on minerals in pegmatites from vulture mining district, the closest mineral I could find to match that grey/blue mineral is lithium or beryllium , what you guy's think? The dark scrubs off, I'm thinking that's a stain from the super iron out.

 

[Eu_citzen]

I found a mining mineral report on minerals in pegmatites from vulture mining district, the closest mineral I could find to match that grey/blue mineral is lithium or beryllium , what you guy's think? The dark scrubs off, I'm thinking that's a stain from the super iron out.

Hardness? Streak? (see a trend yet?)

 

[Steve1236]

yeah, yeah I know I can be a pain in the arse and a bit annoying with my questions lol but I'm curious what can I say. You can't trust google, that shows by my last post, all I have is you people lol. What could I use to scratch this to see if this is spodumene?

 

[Steve1236]

Streak was white, I rubbed it on unglazed porcelain. A sharp piece of chalcedony scratched it. Spodumene is 6 1/2 to 7 so the chalcedony would scrach it. The pinkish area looks like kunzite.

 

[Steve1236]

I had it looked at, the second I took that large piece out of the bag, the guy said lithium spodumene, he said it's not gem quality but rare mineral occurrence with the garnet makes them interesting finds, not worthless by far but I won't be retiring anytime soon lol.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Spondumene has cleavage. That should be easy to see in person. The picture doesn't lend itself to help with ID from this side of the screen.

Hardness test with quartz. Could also be feldspar, though.