Vermont jade - serpentine. Secret Elmore spot

[jeremiahlowcock]

 

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[BurntBear]

That looks like some decent cabbing material!

 

[jeremiahlowcock]

What's cabbing? Sry I'm a noob

 

[yakker]

Hey! Cabbing is short for cabochon- which is when you polish but don't cut a gemstone or semi-precious stone. Rounded and smooth. WELCOME to T-net! Yakker

 

[keith2004]

how hard is the stone? is it from a creekbed?

 

[jeremiahlowcock]

I dug these up in my yard but they are all mostly smooth. So I'm guessing a river or a brook used to run through here.

 

[jeremiahlowcock]

And this particular serpentine is know For its hardness and quality. Some serpentine can be very soft but this stuff is hard like granite.

 

[woof!]

My experience with greenstone is from the other end of the continent, the Franciscan-GreatValley contact facies in the Coast Ranges and Mother Lode belts. The Coast Range greenstones no gold (because no batholith hydrothermal activity) but the high pressure low temperature formation history of these ultramafics created great rockhounding.

 

[jeremiahlowcock]

I've actually found some with gold. Not enough to say so unfortunately

 

[jeremiahlowcock]

Just down the road from me an ancient paleo Indian site was found and a lot of serpentine artifacts were found. And strangely a lot of the serpentine wasn't from Vermont

 

[jeremiahlowcock]

I've found a lot of strange things but I find it's better not to discuss it