HappyTrails55
Sr. Member
Prospectin' ROSCOELITE
I'll have photo's next week...The other day I was going through some old samples of rock I'd picked up back in Sept.-October of last year which I had marked to crush and pan, also marked with numbers and the corresponding locations on my map, so I could retrace and find the locations. I had run across a large outcropping of a Quartz Vein that was loaded with MICA that ran in different colors from dark green to silvery-gray accompanied with Green Crystals, which at that time I thought might be perhaps some sort of Florite. It didn't excite me enough to spend alot of time there messin' with it and I'd one a quick sweep with my Fisher Detector and got nothing, so I just took a grab sample and moved on. So when I was going through the samples the other day and really had nothing else to do, I took that grab sample and pulverized it with my Mortar & Pestle into a Fine Powder and Panned it...WOW, this baby has some Gold in it! Small, Very Minute stuff, but it's Gold..So I get busy and go through my Good 5 Books on Geology Rocks and Minerals and basically come up with nothing as far as the possibilites of Gold found with this type of Mica. Talking to a friend of mine a little later on (who's a little more knowledgeable on the subject) said that it was most probably "ROSCOELITE"...I found one short site on the Internet about it and nothing else. Any of you fellas out there know about this type of Formation in Quartz?...I'll be taking more samples and pic's of this, this weekend....Darrell
I'll have photo's next week...The other day I was going through some old samples of rock I'd picked up back in Sept.-October of last year which I had marked to crush and pan, also marked with numbers and the corresponding locations on my map, so I could retrace and find the locations. I had run across a large outcropping of a Quartz Vein that was loaded with MICA that ran in different colors from dark green to silvery-gray accompanied with Green Crystals, which at that time I thought might be perhaps some sort of Florite. It didn't excite me enough to spend alot of time there messin' with it and I'd one a quick sweep with my Fisher Detector and got nothing, so I just took a grab sample and moved on. So when I was going through the samples the other day and really had nothing else to do, I took that grab sample and pulverized it with my Mortar & Pestle into a Fine Powder and Panned it...WOW, this baby has some Gold in it! Small, Very Minute stuff, but it's Gold..So I get busy and go through my Good 5 Books on Geology Rocks and Minerals and basically come up with nothing as far as the possibilites of Gold found with this type of Mica. Talking to a friend of mine a little later on (who's a little more knowledgeable on the subject) said that it was most probably "ROSCOELITE"...I found one short site on the Internet about it and nothing else. Any of you fellas out there know about this type of Formation in Quartz?...I'll be taking more samples and pic's of this, this weekend....Darrell