Rock Hounds? Any?

[Cindiloohoo]

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Yeah sorry it is pretty vague...vague memory. I found it in TN specifically West Tennessee. I don't know how to describe the color other than a deep dark green...a lot like emerald. It was the color of an emerald, but big. Really dark, but you could see through it when you held it to the light. It looked like a crystal, but the thing was worn on the ends, with just a few perfectly flat sides, and a pretty rounded off side from wear, like it had been in a load of gravel or something. I found it on a creek bank way off in the woods where we were looking at a beaver dam. I tried to figure out what it was and how it could have gotten there by looking it up in every library book they had on rocks for weeks, but never did find anything it looked more like than an emerald in color. I DO NOT think it was an emerald though. If it was...I dunno how in the world it would have gotten way off in the woods of Tennessee by a beaver dam

I wish I still had that weird old rock

I went back to look for it, but could never find it in that ditch.

 

[debilorrah]

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What a deal! Is that of one of those amethyst tubes from South American?

I so jealous of your gem and mineral show! We used to have a really great one in Houston, but it has sort of turned into the bead and jewelry show, and isn't very heavy with minerals and the like anymore. Some nice but extraordinarily expensive fossils, though.

No, they are local. I was our digging once and saw three men unearth a 600 lb amethyst. I was soooo stinkin green with envy. They carefully struck it for an hour before it opened and I was stunned!!

 

[debilorrah]

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I am so sorry to hear about your chicken family.

And this almost does not seem right to ask after your loss, but what is the second specimen that you posted?

That is your everyday run of the mill polished geode slab dyed blue.

Pretty isn't it?

 

[verthandi]

Dang! We don't have geode's here, unless I buy them from a rock show. It is stunning.


Beryl from Maine. Blue/green is the normal color. The piece on the left is a specimen the pieces in the right at actually clean enough to facet, but the roughness of the outside reflects the light. There is blue, green, yellow and peach. Blue is what is called aquamarine.

These are tourmaline rods. Some are clean enough to facet, the ones that are really dark green will stay as they are. Cindiloohoo...I don't know if you have tourmaline in your area, but did what you found, have this type of shape? The tourmaline rods have multiple flat surfaces down the length of them.

I love this piece, and it is nothing more than smokey quartz. When they blasted for the Kangamangus Highway in NH, the hit huge pockets of this.

 

[Brindlebtch]

Hey debi, is that pink slab rhodocrosite? I missed it if you answered, sorry.


off to work.......i work in the evening blah

 

[Brindlebtch]

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Yay and a geode will run you a pretty penny!

 

[Funky Feathers]

I have a nice fossil collection. Here are some of my Shark Teeth:

One is 6 inches and there are a few 5 inch ones and some 4 and 3 inch.

 

[Bare bottom farm]

HI all!! Do any of you no about the metaphysical property of stones? I have some that I have bought and mined. I will try and post of photos later. I'am so enjoing the photos on here..

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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I dunno if we have it around here or not, but that sure looks a lot like the rock I found, especially some of the darker pieces! Thanks for posting that pic!! Now I need to figure out if that could actually be found around here!

 

[Cindiloohoo]

Hmm...well according to Wikipedia, tourmaline is not found in TN. It is found in Maine, and Cali...but it also said that Native Americans gave funeral gifts of pink and green tourmaline...whatever that means? We did have a LOT of natives in the area at one time, and I have found evidence of them all along the banks of creeks and the river down here from shards of pottery, to arrowheads, spearheads, and even a hatchet head. I dunno, but the pics look exactly like it on Wiki. It looks textured the same, and colored much the same as the green tourmalines you showed. as a matter of fact the piece that is short and wide 4th from the left, is almost shaped just like what I had....now gimme my rock back!!

Trade ya a slice of geode for it!