🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Pyrite or gold deposit from the glaciers?

[LauraLou56]

Went to my favorite spot again today for some nature therapy. The universe delivered! My favorites are always the beautiful green rocks and every few feet today where the ice has melted away was a beautiful green rock. The most beautifully bright one stood out as the best green I've found in a long time. Then there was a crystal like stone with quartz and green crystals with what looks like pyrite or gold? Very pretty. Plus the Garnets! Oh and of course some fossils too! I could spend all day here, oh..wait, I did ❤️

 

[LauraLou56]

Some more from the day. Would love to go with a geologist sometime or someone who knows their stuff and learn what they all are.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Some more from the day. Would love to go with a geologist sometime or someone who knows their stuff and learn what they all are.

Don't know what they are, but they're very cool finds, Well done..

 

[LauraLou56]

Don't know what they are, but they're very cool finds, Well done..

Thanks DizzyDigger! It's like another world there. You never know what's going to show up after the ice melts and always worth it!

 

[ToddsPoint]

Went to my favorite spot again today for some nature therapy. The universe delivered! My favorites are always the beautiful green rocks and every few feet today where the ice has melted away was a beautiful green rock. The most beautifully bright one stood out as the best green I've found in a long time. Then there was a crystal like stone with quartz and green crystals with what looks like pyrite or gold? Very pretty. Plus the Garnets! Oh and of course some fossils too! I could spend all day here, oh..wait, I did ❤️

That bright green rock looks like epidote. Also that piece of quartz does look like it has some gold. I also hunt rocks in the glacial till. It’s amazing how many different kinds there are. If you want to learn to ID them, start by learning the three rock types, sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic. Once you can narrow it down to one of the three, it becomes easier to identify them. I’m no geologist but I’m trying to learn myself. It’s a very complicated subject for amateurs.

 

[LauraLou56]

That bright green rock looks like epidote. Also that piece of quartz does look like it has some gold. I also hunt rocks in the glacial till. It’s amazing how many different kinds there are. If you want to learn to ID them, start by learning the three rock types, sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic. Once you can narrow it down to one of the three, it becomes easier to identify them. I’m no geologist but I’m trying to learn myself. It’s a very complicated subject for amateurs.

Awesome thank you ToddsPoint! I've been an avid collector since childhood of rocks & fossils but have yet to learn more than the basics. Appreciate your info!

 

[potsherd_creek]

To me, that first pic looks like the real deal, I would be surprised if it wasn't. May want to keep it low key local.

 

[LauraLou56]

To me, that first pic looks like the real deal, I would be surprised if it wasn't. May want to keep it low key local.

Awesome! It looks real; going to get it tested. Thanks for looking out for me!

 

[KYgotGOLD]

Where is this

 

[ToddsPoint]

Where is this

She hunts the shore of one of the Great Lakes. Erie I think. The amount of rock brought down from Canada is amazing. I hunt the glacial till in central IL and it’s a potpourri of amazing rocks. I’m south of Lake Michigan and see many similar rocks to what she finds. This is a breccia she posted.

I carved a pipe from very similar quartz breccia. So many of the glacial till rocks are beautiful when cut and polished.

 

[LauraLou56]

Where is this

This was Lake Ontario but I do hunt all the Great Lakes, I'm just partial to lady Ontario.

 

[DerbyCityJP]

She hunts the shore of one of the Great Lakes. Erie I think. The amount of rock brought down from Canada is amazing. I hunt the glacial till in central IL and it’s a potpourri of amazing rocks. I’m south of Lake Michigan and see many similar rocks to what she finds. This is a breccia she posted.View attachment 2207963

I carved a pipe from very similar quartz breccia. So many of the glacial till rocks are beautiful when cut and polished.View attachment 2207964

This is beautiful

 

[invent4hir]

Those rocks are so AMAZING! I can see why you'd spend a day looking. Only thing I recall seeing on the south shore of Lake Erie were dead carp - but that was in the early 70s.

 

[LauraLou56]

Those rocks are so AMAZING! I can see why you'd spend a day looking. Only thing I recall seeing on the south shore of Lake Erie were dead carp - but that was in the early 70s.

Hmm, think I'd rather find rocks! Lol

 

[LauraLou56]

Those rocks are so AMAZING! I can see why you'd spend a day looking. Only thing I recall seeing on the south shore of Lake Erie were dead carp - but that was in the early 70s.

I haven't been to Lake Michigan yet- Lady Lake Ontario is my favorite, Lake Erie is so clean but have yet to travel to Lake Michigan.

 

[Tpmetal]

Dang you found some good rocks there! Sounds like time well spent