Green crystal vugs in chrysocolla/quartz

[Steve1236]

Curious is to what the green crystals inside these vugs are, anyone got an idea?

 

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[DDancer]

Looks like chrysocolla or malachite. Hard to say with such a small sample. Is that blue coloration real or due to the lighting?

 

[Steve1236]

Thanks DDancer, I was thinking malachite as well maybe, that blue is real, I was thinking that's chrysocolla.

 

[DDancer]

The two are often seen together. Hopefully you can find some larger examples but I do like the coloration's.

 

[Steve1236]

Thanks DDancer, I can't wait for the cooler weather to get out prospecting, it was 96 degrees at like 4am where I'm at lol,...Hope you are holding up well?

 

[Steve1236]

Hey DDancer or anyone else, there was a pile of large rocks, then smaller rocks making a pyramid shape hidden away between two bushes right by where I found this material, does that mean anything or did someone just get bored?

 

[DDancer]

Possibly and marker of some sort. For what? Who knows. I've found lots of little monuments out in the desert and after looking at some history for one area in particular they were old claim markers as best I could figure. There were a few active claims but they were marked with posts and pole's.

 

[Steve1236]

Yeah I see small stacks of stones out in the deserts in a lot of areas, this, someone used pretty big rocks and it's in a pretty dangerous spot to make it to, part of the lower mountainside where the tributary forms a Y shape, its maybe a reddish dacite, real crumbly stuff so you slide real easily with a pretty nasty drop too, there's chrysocolla veins here and there but it's real crumbly so not much you can do with it, the chrysocolla in quartz is just on the other side of the tributary so I'll probably dig into the hillside and see what I can find, I might also dig and screen some stones in the tributary just below and see if I find anything special.

 

[fuss]

Nice, the aqua colored quartz looks like it could be gem silica.