[Rockhounds] Calcite

[billtompkinscccc at comcast.net]

John-

 I can't help myself.  You must be drinking "Light" beer.  :)


Actually, I was with Jon Gladwell when he broke into a huge pocket at Coffin Butte.  How big was it?  We stood two people in the pocket for a photo because we felt no one would believe it wasn't just another fishing story.  The vug was about 8 feet tall, 4 feet wide, and 3 feet deep, lined with inch long stilbites and 2 inch calcite cubes about every 6 inches.  It was blinding in the sunlight.
 
 The next weekend, the entire area was gone, crushed into gravel by the owner.

 They've since filled the entire mountainside with garbage, covered it with thick plastic, and now convert the methane gas to electricity.

 Too bad they did it so fast, there were areas with 2 inch tall apophyllites, inch long stilbites in plates 6 inches across, half inch analcimes, calcites by the dozens.......  ah, yes, I miss that place.

 Bill Tompkins

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "John Siebel" <john at pandemoniumgraphics.com> 

> I've got a handsome calcite on stilbite from Coffin Butte, OR (one of many). 
> In the proper light it shows a rainbow. How should I label it? I'm thinking 
> prismatic perhaps? 
> 
> John 
> 
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