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Chico
Trad climber
Mt. Shasta, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 5, 2007 - 09:42pm PT
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One thing I love almost as much as climbing rocks is collecting really cool ones. So if there are any other rockhounds out there, let's post up some pictures of rocks that you found. I'll start off with these:
This stuff is called Chrysocolla. They say gold is also found with this stuff. I thought I was collecting Malachite, but no.
This is called a Scepter. Notice the Smokey Quartz shaft, and clear Quartz tip (yes, I said shaft and tip in the same sentence).
This one I found at the end of a long day rockhounding...somewhere. I call it "The Big Lebowski". The rest of it has got to be around there somewhere.
That should be enough to get things started. Let's see 'em folks!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Gneiss stuff...
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MisterE
Social climber
RimDweller, AZ
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lol.
That reminds me. I put up a climb on gneiss in Washington, the last hold was an exposed vertical quartz crystal.
I called it "The Crystal Method"
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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Mr.E, where at?
I've got a project in EWash that climbs thru a 20' tall quartz vein that spans the entire cliff (maybe a 1/4 mile long), super slick and slopy holds, way cool.
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MisterE
Social climber
RimDweller, AZ
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Nason Ridge, just West of 11Worth.
That sounds neat...
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MisterE
Social climber
RimDweller, AZ
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One time in Oregon, I was told about "Glass Butte", so I drove out to look for the black obsidian.
Drove around on the "dirt" road for like 10 minutes looking for the glassine cliffs before I actually got out of the car and realized I had been driving on it for a bit...
Doh!
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Chico
Trad climber
Mt. Shasta, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2007 - 07:08pm PT
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These gusy stumbled upon a few crystals too.
Anyone interested in the Scepters should check out this site:
http://www.cascadescepters.com/
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L
climber
The Rebel L Gang
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Holy Quartz Cave, Batman!
That is friggin' amazing!
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Straight outta Compton!
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Here are some fantastic crystals I bought at a shop out in Delta Utah. Beautiful....just beautiful.
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Chico
Trad climber
Mt. Shasta, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2007 - 07:23pm PT
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Donny,
I think that stuff is called Crank.
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L
climber
The Rebel L Gang
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Weschrist--You can't see Chico's offerings? Dooooode! Do something! They are simply unbelieveable!
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Chico
Trad climber
Mt. Shasta, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2007 - 07:36pm PT
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Really? No pictures eh? Something must be screwy with your computer, because they show up fine for me from three different computers.You've gotta figure out what's up, bc the pics are cool. Can I say that?
A few years back I was climbing Catherdal peak. If you get off the main dog route, climber's left, there is a rugby football sized pocket of smokey quartz. When I came up to it, there was a broken peice of smokey quartz crystal just lying there. It's only about a half an inch long, but way cool nonetheless. Really dark color.
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L
climber
The Rebel L Gang
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Chico--When I looked at that first one, I thought "Well, that's nice. I've got one just like that."
Then I looked again and saw the little man! OMG!!!!!
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UncleDoug
Social climber
N. lake Tahoe
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Chico,
Cool thread!
Ever been to Hallelujah Jctn.?
http://krystaltipsmining.com/
No pix though. I'll try to get by my friends place and snap a few. He has tons of scepters from there. Most are the amethyst / citrine / smoky blend. He also has a "turkey head" (elestial) that weighs in at 35 lbs.
The access is semi in question due to a person who has managed to claim the entire CA side of the hill (he lets people dig but sometimes flies into raging fits). Foster, who owns the claim on top(Nevada), has semi-abandoned the claim.
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Chico
Trad climber
Mt. Shasta, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2007 - 10:10pm PT
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Uncle Doug,
Absolutely. The Scepter and the Big Lebowski in my first post are from Halaleuja junction, and the Chrysocolla is from Cold Springs, about fifteen minutes from my house in Reno. A buddy of mine ran into the miners who work the claims up on Peterson Mountain. At first they were like "WTF are you doing up here", but once they started talking, and found thay he was only into recreational rockhoundong, they hit it off real nice like. The miners said that about a week prior, they found a scepter with the shaft about as big in diameter as his forearm, and the head was about the size of two fists put together. He said it is in some rock and mineral musem now. What a productive spot.
Recently, I collected a couple of five gallon buckets of Agate south of Fernley. I've been preaking them up, and tumbling them. Some are just so-so, but some are beautifully opaque. I'll try to get off my duff and post some pictures. Take care----SA
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BurnRockBurn
climber
South of Black Rock City
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Nice thread. That smokey crystal pocket on Cathedral peak is great. Alway have to reach into that. Always looking for crystals like you have found but not much luck. Am looking to go explore the black rock area soon. Any info on rockhounding there.
BRB
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L
climber
The Rebel L Gang
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The best citrine cluster I've ever seen...
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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L - nice citrine shot. I love that mineral.
Chico - that you found Chrysocolla while hunting for Malachite should not be a surprise. The Malachite, Azurite, Chrysocolla sequence is fairly typical for that mineral type - all are copper based - they should be found together. The reason they are associated with gold deposits is they typically percipitate due to hydrothermal activity - the same activity that percipitates gold.
Too bad my brain is losing all the geology facts stuffed in it. I'd love to bring back the Geology 419 threads I started oooh so long ago.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=64627
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