[Rockhounds] Quastion about Chrysocolla find here?

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I just located a mine on my property that seems to be old gold mine  tailings 
at the top of the ridge.  It probably was a copper deposit because  Colorado 
has much of that going on.  This is in central Colorado in  Northern, central 
Fremont County.  
  The deposit has a lot of low grade crystalline massive quartz  crystals in 
it's light gray host rock and kind of vuggy with some calcite.   There is an 
Agua green blue mineral vein in this stuff that is a coating on the  quartz as 
a secondary mineral deposit. And also in lined veins.  It may cut  but I think 
it just of good specimen quality, not so much for cabs being that it  is so 
brittle.  It is Rhomb in nature but the crystal structure is small  and hard to 
see but it is a glassy translucent blue and a beautiful new specimen  for me. 
There is also a black material resembling Hematite.  Looks  like spots 
grouped together like the black sand I get in my pan from gold  concentrates out of 
the rivers. I have almost an unlimited supply with  specimens ranging from 
head size to thumbnail and it all has an almost puffy  texture much like the 
hydrothermal calcite not far from this area I also collect  in  If anyone would 
like a picture of this stuff to help me id it I would  be glad to send it over.  
  Kreigh**  I bet you could varify it.  U out there?
  Thanks in advance.
   Kevin



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