NeoTokyo
Bronze Member
Location: Shasta Lake, Shasta County, California.
Heya everyone;
So a me and a friend went crushing through the thick manzanita around Shasta Dam in search of a mine that I had thought was on the hill side.
We found lots of overgrown trails, super old iron bean cans, metal bits, orange to red soil, crushed rocks, a square foundation made from rocks and very heavy rocks that had crystals all over them and were next to impossible to split, throwing off sparks near every hit.
The rock that I am going to show in the pictures is one sample that we brought out, and the crystal (Diamond ?) ontop was accidently cracked wide open with a misplaced swing of the hammer.
Inside we found lots of silver flecks (Under a 10x loop it looked like mercury blobs but this is not Cinnabar) which I think is either Graphite or maybe a Platinum metal.
There was also a pocket that was filled with loose carbon that stained the finger.
We also found stones that when cracked open (Super hard) were a flat gray with thousands of microscopic silver specs.
I was thinking maybe Dolomite but I am not very good at identifying rocks.
Have we found diamond bearing Kimberlite? Would that mean that there is a pipe somewhere?
There is volcanic rock sprinkled around.
So if this is Kimberlite, how do I go about processing it?
How do I test it for other metals?
Thanks
-Eric-
The super hard gray rock filled with tons of tiny specs that in my 10x loop look like tiny mercury globs but one larger one was a rectangle.
Heya everyone;
So a me and a friend went crushing through the thick manzanita around Shasta Dam in search of a mine that I had thought was on the hill side.
We found lots of overgrown trails, super old iron bean cans, metal bits, orange to red soil, crushed rocks, a square foundation made from rocks and very heavy rocks that had crystals all over them and were next to impossible to split, throwing off sparks near every hit.
The rock that I am going to show in the pictures is one sample that we brought out, and the crystal (Diamond ?) ontop was accidently cracked wide open with a misplaced swing of the hammer.
Inside we found lots of silver flecks (Under a 10x loop it looked like mercury blobs but this is not Cinnabar) which I think is either Graphite or maybe a Platinum metal.
There was also a pocket that was filled with loose carbon that stained the finger.
We also found stones that when cracked open (Super hard) were a flat gray with thousands of microscopic silver specs.
I was thinking maybe Dolomite but I am not very good at identifying rocks.
Have we found diamond bearing Kimberlite? Would that mean that there is a pipe somewhere?
There is volcanic rock sprinkled around.
So if this is Kimberlite, how do I go about processing it?
How do I test it for other metals?
Thanks
-Eric-
The super hard gray rock filled with tons of tiny specs that in my 10x loop look like tiny mercury globs but one larger one was a rectangle.
