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OfflineMorel Guy
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Minerals, gems, metals and rocks
    #23927713 - 12/14/16 09:20 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Do you collect geological specimens?

I became interested in panning early this year.  Didn't find any nuggets but I found nearly worthless items.  1 not so gemmy ruby and some really small garnet.

I would like to find better specimen in better areas if I am lucky.  Can't really spend the money on buying at a premium.

Do you pan or buy collections of geology?


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Morel Guy]
    #23927734 - 12/14/16 09:27 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

We have a user created forum for this. I'm not as big as some folk but I am lucky to live real close to a large crystal vein. I find shit like this in parking lots



(Not the best pic but it's a quartz crystal cluster)


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23927764 - 12/14/16 09:36 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

I've not found anything particularly valuable yet. Thought I stumbled on gold last year and busted my ass on the creek bed trying to get to it. (Turned out to be zinwaldite which is a gold colored mica) I'd consider myself a rock hound and nature enthusiast. I'm just enjoying and appreciating and pick up pretty souvenirs from time to time :crazy:


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23927782 - 12/14/16 09:42 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

I found lot's of mica I thought perhaps was gold.  Mica has insulation value and gold is an excellent conductor.  A simple voltage meter will yeild test results.

Someone found a piece of quarts with a gold vein worth 50k two counties away.  They think there is gold in bedrock miles down here.  Reality is a lot harder than a dream sadly.


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Morel Guy] * 1
    #23927790 - 12/14/16 09:44 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

I highly suggest getting some bismuth..

As the Chinese wrote in their annals "He who rests his scrotum in bismuth - will be enjoying some fine pussy come christmas"



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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Morel Guy]
    #23927823 - 12/14/16 09:53 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

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Morel Guy said:
I found lot's of mica I thought perhaps was gold.  Mica has insulation value and gold is an excellent conductor.  A simple voltage meter will yeild test results.

Someone found a piece of quarts with a gold vein worth 50k two counties away.  They think there is gold in bedrock miles down here.  Reality is a lot harder than a dream sadly.




Gold inside quartz isn't uncommon at all. Though often enough it's not really worth the effort getting to the flakes inside. Not yet at least. Since you pan handle I'd try your luck downstream from that area.



One thing I'm trying to figure out is how the hell you stake a claim on things like that. I'm entertaining the idea of buying some land in an area renown for amazonite and kyanite but I'd rather go and get a personal claim first.


Zinwaldite is an interesting mica. Im glad I went ahead and got a handful - it's gold in some lights and black in others. Pretty cool :thumbup:


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: twighead]
    #23927841 - 12/14/16 10:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Good to know

I have 5 pounds of bismuth around here


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Morel Guy]
    #23928687 - 12/15/16 09:20 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Morel Guy said:
Do you collect geological specimens?

I became interested in panning early this year.  Didn't find any nuggets but I found nearly worthless items.  1 not so gemmy ruby and some really small garnet.

I would like to find better specimen in better areas if I am lucky.  Can't really spend the money on buying at a premium.

Do you pan or buy collections of geology?



I have 9 mining claims for quartz, lead, aquamarine, tourmaline, agate, and a few other lesser minerals. I dig obsidian commercially for a living, and run my own small lapidary and jewelry business. I set up in quartzsite and Tucson during the winter and a few festivals in the summer. We leave for quartzsite in 11 days! Here's the link to the user forum.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/postlist.php/Board/158


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: passifloracaerulea] * 1
    #23928698 - 12/15/16 09:23 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

PASSIFLORA HOW DO I STAKE A CLAIM

HOW DO I CONTACT CLAIMHOLDERS

HELP MEEH


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23928754 - 12/15/16 09:49 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Native gold or any metal is usually worth more in native form.  Most gold mined is microscopic so they go after that for extraction.

So gold is worth a lot in Quartz.  Usually more than it's weight of gold.

Staking a claim.  Well you go prospecting and pay money to BLM.  Pay early fees and it depends in the claim to how much.  It can be really cheap fees.  There are also claims for sale.  As cheap as 3k for a small pacer claim and it goes up from there.

I live in Ohio and there is a prospecting group with claims.  We have placer glacial gold.  Also very hard to find diamonds that came down with the ice.

There are diamonds out west too but nobody really understands where those came from.  Nobody has found the pipes.  That I have read.

Just don't prospect where there are claims.  Gotta see for signs or stones stacked up around public land.  Mineral trespass is a felony so be real careful.


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #23928806 - 12/15/16 10:10 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

I was just gonna page you.
Youre like the websites prolific rock hound lol
Any cool finds lately?


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Morel Guy]
    #23928826 - 12/15/16 10:20 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

There is a shitload of coal around my area.... when i go hiking i don't have to use much firewood, more effective to pick coal off the ground and use it as fuel.


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Reprobate420]
    #23928841 - 12/15/16 10:26 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Ime pure unprocessed coal is not good to make fires with. I've tried. We have alot of coal veins here too.


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23928848 - 12/15/16 10:28 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Anybody collect those?



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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Morel Guy]
    #23928908 - 12/15/16 10:52 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Morel Guy said:
Native gold or any metal is usually worth more in native form.  Most gold mined is microscopic so they go after that for extraction.

So gold is worth a lot in Quartz.  Usually more than it's weight of gold.




That's what I figured but I've seen prospectors go through a shit load of work to get tiny little gold flakes out of quartz that often weigh a few mg... And insist it's a good method. Imo it's not at all worth it unless you have machinery designed to do that.


I'd personally like a chunk of quartz that has visible gold flakes in it. I imagine alot of other collectors would too.


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Patlal]
    #23928928 - 12/15/16 11:00 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

And you go away naked crackhead kitty.


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23929105 - 12/15/16 11:55 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

You want a Quartz with a big fat vein of gold and if it's crystallized gold that is pricy.  Gold forms with quarts near by or together.  Find a vein of Quartz and you may find gold.


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Morel Guy] * 1
    #23929145 - 12/15/16 12:06 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah I've seen pics of wellformed combinations and its beautiful. But I was talking about prospectors that fin quartz rocks in creeks and bust them up for little flakes of gold no bigger than a pencil point. And no more than a dime size collection of flakes per 5lb rock. Really seems quite silly to me. But if gold value keeps rising it won't be quite as silly I suppose.


Apparently BC Canada has some really good quartz/gold veins. Orgasmic finds up there.





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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23929355 - 12/15/16 01:14 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Hot pics!


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Re: Minerals, gems, metals and rocks [Re: Morel Guy]
    #23929526 - 12/15/16 02:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

This is the lr2000 site link. You really need to learn to use this site.
https://www.blm.gov/lr2000/index.htm
Here is a good youtube video that runs you through how to use the lr2000 site.


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