Found these while metal detecting an old girlscout camp

[angifogg]

I had a coin hit so I started digging and came across a beach sand layer (which was odd for the middle of the woods) in the beach sand layer I found all of these neat looking rocks. I don't know a thing about how to ID them so I'm here for some help.

Thanks in advance

 

[DDancer]

Oooo.... I'd be digging on that You have some very gemmy stuff there and from the variety its a good prospect.
The beach sand layer maybe an old river bed deposit. Or a very broken down deposit of bed rock.

As to the variety of stones you have the top two pictures appear to be mostly green feldspar~ the bright green one in the second pic at the top amazonite.
The second row appears to be mixes of either green feldspar or green chalcedony and red agate. The second picture I would probably call an agate

The third picture down and the close ups in the fourth row~ the translucent stones are chalcedony an agatetized chalcedony, you can see banding in some pieces. The clear bits are rock crystal, clear quartz, and the purple one a shard of amethyst and another amethyst in the translucent one. The broken looking silvery bits appear to be muscovite mica.

The fifth row from the left, brown chalcedony or agate, looks to be a piece of smoky quartz down and up, the 4 in the middle I cant tell, an amythest crystal below, the next two to the right are what I'd call moss agates, the green one above is another piece of green feldspar~ possibly amazonite, and the one above that I cant tell real well but it may be another muscovite mica speci...

The last two rows are mixes of the same.

Might be worth getting a shovel and a sifter and digging into that sand a bit. Some of what I'm calling green feldspar may be berly as well.

 

[waxy luster]

The other beauty is that these haven't been tumbled to river-rock roundness. Perhaps a cataclysmic event like a thousand-year flood tore them from their host rocks, waters receded, sediment and ensuing forestation occurred, and stones were left otherwise intact without further weathering of storms. As such, you have a higher chance of finding fairly intact specimens.

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[angifogg]

Wow thank you all for your input it's not odd to you that bracket sand in an area of 5 feet by 5 feet in the middle of the woods contained all of these

 

[DDancer]

It is odd. A picture might help Could be a mine dump as well. You may find a hole that that stuff came out of. Even possible someone dumped a load of material they collected and decided to give up on out there in the woods.

 

[cazisme]

Old girlscouts are good!

 

[Plumbata]

During summer camp events held for the younger Boy Scouts, many hands-on activities like paper-making, plant identification, and "gold panning" were made available. The latter activity consisted of sorting through sandbox sand seeded with common gravel, gold-painted pebbles, quartz crystals, fossil/mineral chunks etc. I'd imagine that the Girl Scouts do the same thing, and this strange sand deposit is what remains from some sort of rockhounding activity.

 

[lookindown]

During summer camp events held for the younger Boy Scouts, many hands-on activities like paper-making, plant identification, and "gold panning" were made available. The latter activity consisted of sorting through sandbox sand seeded with common gravel, gold-painted pebbles, quartz crystals, fossil/mineral chunks etc. I'd imagine that the Girl Scouts do the same thing, and this strange sand deposit is what remains from some sort of rockhounding activity.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[DDancer]

Hehh As good an explanation as I would entertain. Still some good stuff in it though

 

[jfreakofkorn]

neat find ...

 

[angifogg]

Thanks everyone for your input, I love the TreasureNet Forum Family

 

[cooper36]

If it is a old girl scout camp they might have had a 5x5 spot of gem hunting for them!!!!!!!! Dig it all up!!

 

[StoneWhisper]

You have a nice grouping of stones.. too many for me to actually go into detail about.. But off the top of my head.. Smokey Quartz, Emerald, Blue Agate, Jasper, Amethyst, Amazonite, Blood Stone.. etc.

 

[angifogg]

You have a nice grouping of stones.. too many for me to actually go into detail about.. But off the top of my head.. Smokey Quartz, Emerald, Blue Agate, Jasper, Amethyst, Amazonite, Blood Stone.. etc.

Thanks for the input, more detailed photos of some of the collection here. Help with ID please

 

[StoneWhisper]

Image 1: Aventurine
Image 2: Fragmented Tourmaline or Jet
Image 3: Dirty Peacock Ore
Image 4: Unknown
Image 5: Same as 3
Image 6: Amazonite
Image 7: Unknown w/ ruby or garnet (red)
Image 8: Same as 7
Image 9: Ruby / Garnet
Image 10: Pyrite
Image 11: Same as 10
Image 12: Fractured quartz w/ garnet
Image 13: Same as 12
Image 14: Unknown
Image 15: Unknown
Image 16: Jasper
Image 17: Same as 16
Image 18: With the blueish tint.. I was going to say Lapaz.. need a few different pics of this one.
Image 19: Tree Agate

 

[angifogg]

WOW, thank you for the info