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Spotted this over Ward St., everyone had their phones out, it was a lovely evening...
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So a couple of hours before work, and I went on a little expedition exploring a couple KM up past the silver mines on Woodbury Pt.
Some excellent and very promising geology.
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Great upended swaths of metamorphic rocks and Schist, iron stained, perfect silvery mica, lots of vugs and pockets filled with mud, poking through them, no crystals, but abundant potential.
Intrusive in the schists vuggy outcrops of rhyolite - exciting, similar to what they dig red beryls (Bixbite) and Topaz out of in Utah.
Heavy mineralization, iron, sulpher, quartz, traces of copper, absolutely promising as all out. I dig a few of the vugs, no luck finding crystals, but there are numerous outcrops and I'm only a couple of KM up the road - there will be abundant other places to check.
Vuggy rhyolite...with occupant.
And I find what appears to be a lava flow - river cobbles in conglomerate, cemented by a deep black mineralization, this might be worth digging up and panning (although there would have to be some crushing involved as well).
All in all an excellent short little field trip that promises, well great things. I have yet to find the tourmalines and staurolites, but these are great exposures, and promising in the extreme, a hundred other forestry service roads to explore, all things here are possible...
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And, chopping wood, impossibly fine splinters, the landlord can't seem to start a fire, needs finer and finer kindling, and so what happens?
I chop the entire heel of my palm off...a bloody mess. Quickly reposition it, tape it on, for the next few days I can't shower until it crusts and scabs, and even when I do the amputated heel wants to peel off.
After a couple of weeks it started to look better.
A few more weeks, better still, it appears as if it's reattached at the top...
And finally, now more or less completely restored. Although it feels a bit odd, crinkly, like I'm feeling it through a piece of wet cardboard. To be expected. But I didn't lose it - which I thought was certain, it grafted completely back on, which is proof you don't need stitches for trivial things. Although at the time, with all the blood and nerves laid bare it didn't look that trivial, I gotta say...
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Garage sales, only a few, the only worthwhile find:
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Cleaning up some old concentrates, precious little gold, thought I'd throw it all under the microscope and see what made up the black sand...
Above, some garnet, peridot/olivine, the dark pink might not be garnet, possibility of other gems...
the orange stones are curious, there's what appears to be a metallic piece left of center above the olivine.
More orange, long yellow crystal of interest
Perfectly framed black crystal in drop of water
Note the good triangular faces, hematite?
And finally, a tiny piece of gold...