Got A Rock you Want Identified? Post it here! gimme a good picture or 3 or 4!
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!
those look alot like the "Mohawk mine" southern ariz. good load for gold and silver, red iron smattered throughout the exterior of the quartz in a large vein the Copper would go to center and some of the lighter minerals would stick to the sides.. silver in black should be throughout much as the gold .. tiny.. as for the "motherload" in this type of rock your looking for about a 1.5 to 3.5 foot thick vein looking for the green and or red yellow of Sulphur running in between the quartz. Also be on the lookout for this type in the center of your quartz the Silver bentonite is rather common, but is one of the few that can be cut to reveal its absolutely gorgeous metal structure.
Over all! good spot to look... better get a monster crusher..the Metallic nodule on the front of the first rock looks to be silver, but I've seen this actually be a composite of titanium and magnesium,, would have to have it in hand to be definite on that. do you have any of these cracked down a fracture line in the Quartz?
This is a close up of the ore above. What do you think of Spharelite? Possible? The areas I am in were known for gold, zinc, silver, iron and lead.
Also, this rock matches the 1st ore picture you posted from the Mohawk Mine. This was also found on our Yellow Bird claim. Very heavy, magnetic so Magnetite and what else?? Pyrite is visible on the other side, but not shown on this photo.
top one is Jasperiod, commonly has large loads of fine gold in it,, yours may have been reheated (IE sub crust and forced back up),, should also possibly have Calaverite , i have seen this formation alot ,, its AuTe2 and a bugger to seperate ..lol
the bottom one is a mixture of Chrysocolla, and lapped quartz with mineralization.. i would say that its really heavy due to the copper, magnesium, iron, silver, and titamium within the quartz.. in a scholars terms Copper Manto development immediately beneath the andradite garnet – epidote – carbonate – hematite skarn with green (chrysocolla) – cuprite – chalcocite (grey) and ochreous hematite – limonite developed in the oxide zone after copper sulfides.. lol but a good spot to look!
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lol Tramp I WILL! and Southern that is a Hematite shist with a little vein of quartz run thru a river.. it should have some small amounts of silver and maybe a lil gold.. primarily hematite and other heavy metals like copper, Garnets and other minerals. . makes for an unusual rock tho.. I would go to the closest stream where you found that and look on the INside of each bend with a pan or metal detector. Where there are black sands there might be gold!
possible Glacial deposit?, Glaciers deposited huge amounts of gold onto the bedrock where they receded. the off side to this is also the largest deposit of Uranium was deposited this way too, Leading to Nevada Arizona and New Mexico, having high concentrations of many metals after "Snowball earth" about 1.8 billion years ago. More recently there have been good finds of Gold deposits in glacial bays in Alaska, and Prince Edward sound Canada.. Worth a look if you know where to look at the bedrock. IE the kettle lakes, or the streams or valleys that fed them.
Those are nice pictures Dusted. I am taking my Gold Bug out on my clubs claim tomorrow. I'll have a few new rocks to ID tomorrow. I hope there is some visible gold in them!
Pat from what i can see it looks like a Volcanic Ballista,, Basalt (ash or sandstone in the background?) Can you send me a closer picture of the center and upper right in Orange/red see it there? also is it on like rocks where you found it?
Pat from what i can see it looks like a Volcanic Ballista,, Basalt (ash or sandstone in the background?) Can you send me a closer picture of the center and upper right in Orange/red see it there? also is it on like rocks where you found it?
thank you for your response dusted you,weird because theres no known volcano near here..but it do have a lots of these here.in big blocks.yes i found it in i see some quartz like inside the center of this rock.see attachments.
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