massive crystals found in warwick new york

A ten inch ball of Spinels, Hundreds of sharp crystals. Large one on top over an inch.
Pictures don't do this one justice !

NICE!!!!!!!!!! ::o ::o



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Glenn

Thats a Knock Out piece ;)

Wayne

You amaze me everytime I check your post. Great piece!
Keep on Rockin Bud!
John

Glen,
I found some Scapolite crystals in the area, but they have a yellowish dirty layer on them. I remember seeing one of your posts where you mentioned how you cleaned off these scapolite's nicely. If you don't mind would you be able to post what you did to clean them off to make them shine white?
Thanks

@ herschel

found this browsing through some the earlier posts around the first page maybe pg 3 dont really remember. it had the photos of cleaned scapolites

Glenn Rhein Wrote:
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> Super iron out makes all the difference. 20
> minutes in the ultrasonic cleaner
> 2 inch scapolite and 3-1/2 inch diopside

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A buena hambre no hay pan duro

Thanks Matt. I remembered a discussion about this earlier in the forum, but its grown to 22 pages and its hard to find things earlier on! Glad you found it and posted...

Marion and Mike from the NYS museum came down and picked up the first load today (Great Guys)
We split open the boulder that had a Azurite band running through it and found some Malachite.
Also possibly found some Sphalerite mixed in Fluorite, will have to wait for the tests.
Yellow fluorescent still does not have a name, more tests on the way, The samples are getting brighter and bigger




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Just beautiful!
-Rowan

Show and tell with the neighbors, I was showing some minerals we found so Rich had to show off his really cool Moose-Elk he found in the black dirt just down the road. My grandson was impressed !

Awesome!!

Thats cool

I love this thread and btw thats definetly a moose lower/upper jaw and skull with antlers elk dont get spoons pretty much

sorry double post



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Wow Glenn!!! My hat is off to you!! You admitted at the beginning of this blog that you had no Geology background or even collected as a hobby. I look at your posts now that are brimming with the knowledge your have gained. Your photographic skills are wonderful now, and your enthusiasm in posting is second to none. You've gone out and acquired all the tools off the trade that a professional collector would buy, all in a very short period of time. To say you are hooked is an understatement; I envy the position you are in. Congratulations on a fantastic discovery and keep up the good work.

Thanks, Chris, Michael, Wendy and everyone else for your input to make this a great experience.

This Tremolite crystal is bigger than most here at 1-3/4 inches and bright blue under short wave UV. There are hundreds in this 10 inch piece of marble but most are small and they all have that nice blue fluorescent color.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/26/2011 03:41PM by Glenn Rhein.

that is a nice one!
-Rowan

Breaking up some marble looking for some nice fluorescent pieces I started to find these pink crystals, could they be Corundum ?
Third picture is a pink spot on mica.

Glenn,
It looks correct. Try the simple Long Wave UV response usually any pink to red daylight colored corundum from the Franklin Marble will fluoresce bright red ( in my experience about 100%). If you examine the crystal under a low power microscope you should see the typical cleavages of corundum. The association with phlogopite is fairly common. There may be tiny black rutile crystals in the matrix also. Keep an eye out for margarite in this material as well.
Hope this helps,
Steve.

Definitely the right color and crystal shape for Amity corundum. The certain way to test it is to try to scratch it with one of your spinels - not much in Amity is harder than spinel (except maybe zircon which is around the same). If it doesn't get scratched by spinel than it most certainly is corundum!