Johnny Ruiz's Photo Gallery
Diamonds I tweezed out of kimberlite clay
Hand picked diamonds from clay kimberlite pipe...any tips n cleaning..?
Kimberlite found by graphicbadger mining group
Item is approximately 1/2”x1x2” and over dozens of diamonds and I found it and another like it that has clusters of diamonds and over 60 diamonds on the outer showing side of the oval round skipping stone shaped rocks these are from kingman Az about or flagstaff area between there. Any advice on what I should do knowing this is a big kimberlite clay pipe I found or what’s legal to operate or what is the laws on all this please inform me .
This rock has small red tinted diamonds rough Diamonds on the outer layer and scattered through out it I also have seven different types of any one is interested pm me..
Kimberlite variety’s I found and own
Some of many more types of kimberlite iv found all bearing diamonds tested and in multitudes per stone some microscopic many smalls fewer medium and some that I have times of BB gun ammo and fewer even bigger many many rough diamonds up to 12mm in all directions pound but I’m just getting into kimberlites I learned of the name to some hounded rocks I had for years now.
Once a joke to hand a popped off diamond to my girl friend saying here’s a diamond which I tossed on the floor. And when about my day like nothing. Only having a good laugh about it as I cared less to pick them up unless big crystals as I thought them to be were visible. My gf was the one that wanted them a hounded a bunch luckily we remembered we’re we got them and not one spot but two spots and not riddled with diamonds I currently am sitting here going through what I washed out the cley of cley boulders from the floor of the cley pipe and little by little table spoon at a time am tweeserimgmallmtransperant stones into one container and all visually certain diamonds into another container all been tested only 20% I eyed are quartz and the rest test diamond I’m with broken neck syndrome lol.
I am willing to talk about it if any persons want to own some kimberlite or event 10x richer clay every spoon full has over 50-60 pieces or whole mini diamonds and yer I have found big ones in there clear as day of multiple colors so message me I’ll let you know what th requirements and actions to acquire this rare not publicized gem and gem clay and gem ore I have and have tons and I’d say unlimited to my self collecting it.
EHC-GRKChromite-Magnetite Series, Quartz (Var: Milky Quartz) SiO2
Dimensions: 5 inches x 5 inches x 5 inches
Field of View: 54.4 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 1 inches
Weight: 5 lb
Grouped mix of photos I had took of. The unknown mixture of minerals and metals.thank you. Very in size no exact sizes depicting of any Serbian mineral or piece .
JUF-X1PChromite Fe2+Cr3+2O4
Dimensions: 3 inches x 2.8 inches x 3 inches
Field of View: 26.5 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 15 mm
Weight: 351.23 g
The cube mineral or crystal or metal not sure what to call it but it’s a dark color it’s sitting in top the layer of quarts crystals the white is the quarts calcite I think and the purple is the chromite shell that’s covering all my 200:pieces thinking it’s chromite.any info in if magnetite or chromite or on other mineral???
L0J-CHDChromite-Magnetite Series
Dimensions: 3.5 inches x 2.7 inches x 1 inches
Field of View: 30.8 inches
Weight: 70.7 g
This is a dark purple metallic rock or metal it’s got a reflector shine when moved in sun lite it’s got crystal tips. I found it in a small area of about 60yards in diameter in the bottom of a I think it’s quarts and calcite mixed the quarts was milky white and most of it had pyrite in it bit this white rock was easy to crack and crumbled easy as well
The pyrite was in a dark gold green tinted melted type not the flaking type it’s also had some rocks around it that were very green like moss and a yellow spotty coat of small yellow dots or specks all covering it with a dark green streak through some boulders like a moss covered rock but they were more round those green ones were.That was in salon Arizona I found it by Alamo lake .
This photo was of a chromite like rock that looks like a meteorite smashed into the mountain to and busted all over the area or was broken down by environment and weathering it was on the side of a flattened piece of land That was for hooking up a rev and renting for the night. Possibly was undue when bulldozing the mountain and tossed over the edge only 5 feet down and spread out over time. A few hundred pieces of this stone were there most mixed with quartz and orange crystals a bunch of veins were of this metallic purple and silver like eye shadow if it was the purple glitter kind. That’s on the inside or under the surface. Now the weathers outer area on some looked like metallic paint smeared or opalized on sop and had blue and read smears on that most of it is metal.
Then some were the ones like this and had only magnetite I’m guessing and crystals of pure what ever this is. Then some had cubes of this stuff in the cavity of stones alike this one but bigger I’ll say this one is 2.3” long .1.5” tall and 1.2” thick very kool rock there’s a bout 100 more pieces
Ok
U54-45QChromium-dravite NaMg3Cr3+6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Dimensions: 2.4 inches x 1.1 inches x .9 inches
Field of View: 2.4 inches
Largest Crystal Size: 1 mm
Weight: 117.7 g
Magnetic metal seems solid and has a super shiny inside texture of sand paper on the fine side and on the outer shell it’s more like wet sand paper. It’s a tiny piece of a 200lbs bolder I thought was a meteorite and I just cracked it in half with a sledg hammer it doesn’t rust but keeps a bit of a green tint like a dried water stain on the out side and inside the cracked area were water seeped into the cracks it’s solid metal so the large piece was a size of a rim and tire at the top was not as wide at the bottom.
It’s supper heavy had to put it on a jack for a car and shoulder it into my Prius to bring it home to Arizona from California the high desert Lucerne valley on my way up to big bear lake.
It’s just now getting a light orange color to it but just on top were it recently seen oxygen for the first time.its I might just guess chromite it’s streak sets is black and a scaling of 6-7 softness or hardness it’s very metal by eye and chromite look of shiny and it’s now in two what is it?
The peice shown is a 1.4 in by .9 inch by 2.4inches width being the 1.4 and height being the .9 and length being 2.4
Unknown type might be woulfenite
Field of View: 4 inches
Largest Crystal Size: 9 mm
Weight: 2.6 lb
Not sure might be woulfenite like I know nothing but what I have read here on this site. Phot depicts a partial photo of the specimen it
length is 9 “ it’s height is 3” and width is 5 “
From AZ and would like some help identifying it.
CLY-777Guyanaite CrO(OH)
Dimensions: 1 inches x 1 inches x 1 inches
Field of View: 25 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 13 mm
Weight: 2.3 lb
This is my specimen it’s size is about 10”x7”x5” and the photograph Depicts a cluster of cubic formed mineral unknown to me am very curious.
My research has lead me to beleave it’s known as Guyana lead sulfide but this is definitely a golden tint to it.the cluster in sunk in a 1/4 inch into this ore specimen.
It’s from a town called wenden AZ at this mine I’ll copy and past it’s mine data below though two mines shown not sure which one I was at to collect it I’m John Ruiz and I found it in 2017 and photographed it in 2021. Will extend photos if possible have about 13.
Malachite
Peacock ore
Silver
Gold
Chrysocolla
Azurite
Copper
Chalcopyrite
Amethyst
Chalcocite
Bornite
Cuprite
Hematite
Siderite
Var. speculative
Siderite
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10210608, MAS ID #0040120133.
atitude & Longitude (decimal): 33.94639,-113.5544
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 33° 56' 47'' North , 113° 33' 16'' Wes
Mineralization is copper sulfides and secondary ores with quartz, hematite, siderite and wall rock breccia, in lenses and pods in strong, lensing, iron-rich, NW-striking veins along mineralized faults and shear zones cutting the Precambrian metamorphics, intruded by later granitic and diorite dikes. The wall rocks are chloritized. Strong leaching, oxidation, and enrichment occurred in the upper part of the veins.
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
ⓘ Bornite 2.BA.15 Cu5FeS4
ⓘ Chalcocite 2.BA.05 Cu2S
ⓘ Chalcopyrite 2.CB.10a CuFeS2
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
ⓘ Cuprite 4.AA.10 Cu2O
ⓘ Hematite 4.CB.05 Fe2O3
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates
ⓘ Siderite 5.AB.05 FeCO3
Group 9 - Silicates
ⓘ Chrysocolla 9.ED.20 Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2
Other mine next to it below
Reset
Filter Mineral List
Ba C Cu Fe O S
ⓘ
Baryte
ⓘ
Chalcocite
ⓘ
Chalcopyrite
ⓘ
Hematite
ⓘ
var: Specularite
ⓘ
Siderite
mi
Leaflet | Localities mindat.org, Base map © OpenStreetMap
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 33° 57' 11'' North , 113° 33' 50'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal): 33.95306,-113.56389
GeoHash: G#: 9qp1pucqc
GRN: N23W68
Köppen climate type: BWh : Hot deserts climat
VCG-8TNTurquoise CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O , Chalcopyrite (Var: Gold-bearing Chalcopyrite) CuFeS2 with Au
Dimensions: 2.2 inches x .7 inches x 2.1 inches
Field of View: 2.3 inches
Largest Crystal Size: 3 cm
Weight: 10 g
We’re looking at the rock in the hand not the shrouding stones center image stone we’re viewing.with baby blue tint and orange rust gold copper in the center of the blue tinted stone.
Turquoise precursor I’m told found in a mine in wenden AZ was a big hit in the 50s and opened again in the 80s. This mine was known for gold, silver, copper, malachite. Dark blue crystals growing and green growing like malachite, iron, peacock ore , and chalcopyrite.
The depicted rock is of a precursor to turquoise and not sure of the rest.
My wonders are what is that orange stuff hopping it’s gold related because up in Washington I had this sliced and the man who did it said the jewelry up in his area would like to get a source of that rock in the photos for Jim making and was just needing to know what everyone thinks of it or if it is gold related???
This specimen is roughly 2.1in.X.7in.x2.2in.xturquoise and hopefully gold need views and answers or opinion.
I’m John Ruiz and I found this stone amongst a trailing pile at a mine that’s been closed.just 45 minutes past wiki up twards Phoenix at the neighboring town to Salome AZ wenden AZ headed up twards alimo lake.
