Found this in a junk shop in New Denver, couldn't pass it up, $10, from the day when they were still getting appreciable quantities of gold from the creeks:
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Another one I'd driven by a hundred times and never noticed, you're eyes have to be just right, so once spotted I made a plan to go back and explore. Nothing too interesting, other than the calcite flowing and growing into stalactites from the ceiling.
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Basically a bunch of images of places I was prospecting above Creston. Some nice black tourmaline - massive and in crystals, most pieces shattered when trying to get it out of the host rock, some tiny green beryl crystals, gemmy, but too small, and following the vein of pegmatite couldn't find the source, and other photos taken in the field...
Beautiful exposure of pegmatite, quartz, black tourmaline, fine mica,
Massive black tourmaline (in boulder next to log)
Finer tourmaline crystals, garnet
Small pale green beryl in shadow at center of pic.
Pegmatite.
Gemmy beryls on far right...
Gneiss...
Big chunk of iron stained garnet, black tourmaline, smokey quartz
Vugs of quartz crystals, fluorites, copper & calcites - above 6 mile/sasquatch lake...
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I've a hundred pounds of this or so, Galena - Silver Ore, with Pyrites, Sulfites, freshly broken it displays the cleavage, cubic crystal structure on black mirrored faces, over time they quickly oxidize and turn orange or rust brown. But a pretty rock, and you can usually guess it by it's weight.
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