[Rockhounds] Gemfield Green and Red

[Bobslgn at aol.com]

Gemfield Green and  Red 
>About 15 minutes  later two deputies arrived. They got me back on my
<wheels and issued a  strong warning about the perils of driving around
<the desert in an  electric wheelchair. While they were watching I got
>back in my RV and  drove away. 
Grant, 
It sounds like you  could use a small 4X4 quad or something similar. 
>All the good  chalcedony was at another place on the hill. And that
>green stuff the  call "Gemfield Jade" was on the other fork in the
>road. Has anybody ever  identified the 'jade?'  I don't know what it is
>but I know it's not  jade.

I just had a brief look at a piece of the Green Material  today.  A friend of 
mine brought it  to work along with a piece of rust red material from the 
same hill.  The green piece had that waxy luster,  light weight and the feel of 
hydrated silica; I would call it an opalite.  I am not a geologist so someone 
on the  list probably has some better information. 
I am curious about the  red material, found on the same hill.  It seems that 
miners have followed a vein of the stuff down into the hill  about four feet.  
The piece I saw  was unremarkable very similar to the green but slightly 
heavier.  What use or properties of the red would  prompt someone to dig this 
material? 
Bob



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