What type of rock???

[Drakien]

I have been out scavenging around and I found some white rock and this was by an old mining area, that and I also found some green rock. Could someone tell me what it is. I dont have pics. but if anyone could help me, I would appreciate it. Thanks

 

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[Drakien]

I am just wondering if I should be searching the white rock or the green rock.

 

[Angelo]

Hard telling what you found with-out pictures.

Here is a link for the Utah counties. Look up the stones under the name on other sites.

http://www.utahrockhounds.com/sites/index.htm

Tony

 

[Drakien]

I will post some pics when I get some. I will be going back up today or tomarrow.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Search the white. Gold will occasionally be found in a calcite matrix.

That, and I have no idea what a green rock could be. Jade? Emerald? Soapstone?

 

[Drakien]

That is basicly what the white rock looked like, but I also saw alot of chipped green rock too, so I thought I should ask. Thanks. I will search it.

 

[Ant]

Serpentine. It looks a little different as tailings but you see this up north around Clear Lake CA all the time:

Oh yeah it also could be Chrysocolla:

The white rock is most likely bull-quartz.

 

[Drakien]

Yeah that is basicly what the green rock looks like. It isnt found in that big of a quantity that I have seen. Are there any minerals in it? I went back up and took alot of the side dirt roads that would normally require an ATV, but I didnt really find anything worthwhile. I will be going back up with an ATV later on this week to get s a few samples of rock from around the area.

 

[Ant]

The serpentine or the Chrysocola?

The first three photos are Serpentine and both are minerals, and both are associated with gold.

The last photo is the mineral Chrysocola (chris-so-cola) is a copper crystal that is associated with gold. I found my first gold color drywashing under a rock face of chrysocola. Chrysocola can be shot with gold, microscopic, wire and nugget size. I found lead sulfate crystals in the same area, which can have a gold color.

We have piles of chrysocola tailings from prospecting activities around here. They date as far back as the mid 1800’s, some earlier.

 

[Drakien]

The serpentine. I Thanks alot I will start looking where I found that, since I cant seem to find where the white rock came from. The white rock was laying off the side of the road a couple feet and was already partially broken apart, so I didnt bother looking at it. As for the Serpentine it was burried, I was digging some random holes and found it. There have been people up there that have been digging random holes all over, and there was one place where there were a few more holes than others, I think that would be a good place to start.

Maybe someone could help me with this also, There was also a trail that had a tree laying in the middle of it, blocking it, but I couldnt figure out where the tree came from, so I thought someone intentially put it there. So I walked around the tree and up the road a bit and found an outcropping of some black rock with little round off-white colored rock, that when broken they are that quartz like rock. Could you help me out with what significance that might have?

 

[Ant]

It sounds like you might be on someones mining claim or in an area where someone is prospecting for locatable minerals. It's normally OK to go rock hounding on BLM land and lots of other public lands, but you might want to know where you are when looking for locatable minerals like gold.

You can look the area up in the LR2000 BLM mining claim records. But you also should go to the County Recorders Office and check to see if a active mining claim is on filed.

 

[doublet2a]

I lived in Nevada from 1970-1973
A small town called "Battle Mountain" to be exact
Worked in a copper mine
We would hit vains of :::
Gold
Sivler
Copper
and even "Native Copper"
And of course Tourquise
Large pieces
Yes and chrysocola
I made a claim on a spot I thought was Tourquise
Only cost me $12 a year
Got some Tourquise, but mostly non valuabe stuff
But got well more than enough to pay for my claim,

OK BLah, BLah, BLah


HH TIM

 

[Drakien]

cool...I am not worried about the mining claim thing, I know the person who staked it, and I have permission. I just want to know where to look. So I have been all over looking at different rock taking samples and such. Thanks for all the help.

 

[Ant]

Look downhill below the tailings, in the washes, wet or dry, on the hill side below the tailings. Gold goes to the lowest places, bedrock it possible. Because it's so dense/heavy.

Use a search engine to search these two terms (how to find gold) and (caricaturists of gold). I started at the local Library. Now day's the small prospector normally uses metal detectors, drywashers, high bankers and sluices to recover gold.

 

[justine093]

If you found it near a known mine,
check out this website:
http://www.mindat.org/
you can put in the locale of the mine and they will tell you
what minerals are associated with that particular mine.

 

[Drakien]

It was no where near an old mine. Thanks ant I will look and find out a few new things, I have not had a chance to go to the bottom yet, but I will when the rain stops. Thanks again for all your guys' help!