Rockhounding trip!

[Eu_citzen]

Was looking for some new rough to cut or play with.

First pic is several serpentine boulders. Hammer for size.

Serpentine outcrop:

Here's a pic of some kind of greenstone, chlorite schist I think this one was.
The serpentine sits between this and some metavulcanite or rhyolite. Not 100% sure which.

I suspect a deformational zone, at least an estimated 10 meters high.
I think it might be a shear zone. Some serpentine can be found in the "compressed" area to.

A bit further to the east we found signs of copper sulphides, we found some nice chalcopyrite crystals, no pics of these yet, sorry.

While looking trough the moraine, we found an altered granite, gneiss isn't it?

We do on occasion also find some fairly nice flourite, please ignore the calcite next to it.

Hope ya'll enjoyed our little virtual tour!

 

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[MrLee]

EU, thanks for sharing. I've found a quartz vein which yielded me several fist sized samples identical to your copper sulphide picture above. Too bad you don't live here in California, we could go hunting together. There's something about swinging a pick into quartz, besides it being hard as hell.

 

[Eu_citzen]

MrLee, there where some boulders up there several 100 Kgs in weight.
Just took a few samples, I think these may be going to be assayed.

Oh, the chalcopyrite crystal I talked about. Notice the silver looking stuff, chalcocite me thinks. Haven't done any tests yet though.

 

[sonofadigger]

im not sure what any of the words you used means but those are some sweet looking rocks

 

[MrLee]

Here is a photo of one of the pieces. I have several that look like this with a little more green.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Sonofadigger, thanks! LOL Geological terms..

Lee, yes, that looks quite similar, please get us some pics from your location and share in a new topic!

 

[MinerGirl]

Hi Eu_Citzen, After seeing your Pic of the lavender Flourite, It's now my Favorite Rock!! So Pretty!

 

[ridgecrawler]

Enjoyed your pictures, Where I live we dont have much to go out and find. Sandstone and coal so I buy most of my lapidary material. We do have Flint Ridge flint, Ohios official gemstone. very nice material. good luck on finding more goodies. Ill look forward to more info from you.

 

[Eu_citzen]

MineralGirl, Thanks! Still looking for that elusive piece in a clean facet grade, could be hiding here somewhere!
They can have very nice colours, ever seen the blueish-green ones? Gorgeous stuff!

Ridgecrawler,
Ha! I thought we only had granite in my area, until I started to look closer.
In person that is, seems the geologists, maps etc have missed a lot of good stuff!

I've seen some of that flint, gorgeous stuff!