[Rockhounds] Calcite

[Tim]

The current quarry to the west of the landfill area produces similar, if not
nearly as spectacular, specimens. The owner had been very accommodating in
the past, once he even called when they were about to shoot the quarry (I
had done some consulting for him though). When we arrived he had the workers
spread the specimens they had saved on a tarp for our picking pleasure :) 

Tim Fisher 
Ore-ROCK-On! 
Email address at http://OreRockOn.com


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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

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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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