hurthawk Posted May 2, 2009 Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 I spent the last two days catching up on some long overdue clean-up on my patio. I had numerous buckets of gravel, dirt, sluice cons and six sniffer bottles with various amounts of gold and black sands that I needed to classify down to at least 30 mesh for my blue bowl. After screening all of it through 1/2",1/4", a flour sifter and 30 mesh, I panned everything twice and ended up with 2/3 of a 5 gallon bucket ready for the blue bowl. The nice surprise was the amount of gold accumulated from my efforts.The pics also show a small bucket full of common opal and some chiastolites ( Crystals of Andalusite containing cross-shaped inclusions of carbon. Common in some metamorphic rocks. Found in England, Australia, Arizona and Ca.) that I got on a trip to Mariposa last Sunday.Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted May 2, 2009 Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 Do you know if the chiastolites take a polish? Very cool looking stones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted May 2, 2009 Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 OOPS... double post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurthawk Posted May 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Do you know if the chiastolites take a polish? Very cool looking stonesSorry Steve...I don't know if they will polish up well or not. I plan to try using the lapidary equipment at the Calaveras gem and mineral clubhouse.Here is a link to a video I just finished that shows the chiastolites: Happy Hunting,RickP.S. I really like your jewelry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Post some pictures if you get some nice cabs out of it. I have never seen those before, very interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleface Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Rick,I tried doing up some cabochons many years ago and did not have much luck in getting a good polish on them. They are quite fascinating with no 2 being alike. I did a little search to see if something new was out there and came up empty-handed except for this link. I cannot get the link to work without a cut/paste direct to your browser. Hope that it works and gives you a little information. www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=5034334 Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurthawk Posted May 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Thanks for the link Paleface.Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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