[Rockhounds] Gemfield Green and Red

[Robert Denton]

Possibly Mecury.  Cheers

On 7/5/07, Bobslgn at aol.com <Bobslgn at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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