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Post by larrywyland3 on Aug 13, 2007 11:04:39 GMT -5
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Post by texaswoodie on Aug 13, 2007 11:19:31 GMT -5
Wow! Very nice! We have green chlorite inclusions within driving distance of me. Hopefully this fall I'll be able to go see if I can find some.
Curt
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turnedstone
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Post by turnedstone on Aug 13, 2007 13:17:13 GMT -5
I have dug some chlorite crystals just south west of Hot Springs Arkansas. Did not find anything green that i dug or so I thought till just a few weeks ago I was looking for some clusters to clean up and found one that has some green in the matrix so I may get some nice green in a crystal cluster after all. The owner told me i may not find any in the mine but his wife finds them in the parking area all the time. While i was packing up to leave i looked down between my feet and there laid the prettiest green crystal. Found two more in the next hour right where I parked lol. Wife mounted one and still wears it,not very big maybe 1 inch long. George
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SteveHolmes
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Post by SteveHolmes on Aug 13, 2007 15:52:50 GMT -5
Nice finds Spirit Stone. Bixbyite is different from Red Beryl. I have found Bixbyite on the Thomas Range where the Utah Topaz is found. The Red Beryl can be found there as well...but it's most often found in the Wah-Wah's. It is a very rare mineral none-the-less. Enjoy the new crystals. Steve Liz...I think I had the brain fart! I had no idea that Red Beryl is also known as Bixbite until I read your post and had to search for it myself. Sorry Spirit for sounding like an educated geologist...but I just learned something new!
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181lizard
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Post by 181lizard on Aug 13, 2007 20:39:40 GMT -5
It can get real confusing on some mineral and/or crystal names & bixbite is one of them. I think I've seen 3 different spellings & they are all different minerals. Somebody had a brain fart on those names.
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Post by larrywyland3 on Aug 13, 2007 22:03:44 GMT -5
There is lots of confusion with some gemstone names. The red beryl was named bixbite after the Utah collector Maynard Bixby. The bixbyite is an iron manganise something or another and is totally different. Bixbite is what I knew it by; didn't know there was even a Bixbyite; until I read the post. I googled and then checked a book I have to make sure. The rock shop owner was calling the scenic quartz/ bla/bla a quartz lens. I knew the star burst jasper by spiderman jasper. I thought there was one Morrisonite; then I met an old timer from OR and he put the name morrisonite name after about three or four different rocks one being the blue mountain jasper. Ammolite has been called the Alberta Opal, and a couple others; I think of it as the spirit stone; one name Native Americans called it by. I think it is one part evolution and one part migration; some names seem to stick in different parts of the country. The Bixbite Bixybite seems to be just a strange coincidence. One thing for sure, I learn three or four knew things every day on this board.
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Post by Tonyterner on Aug 14, 2007 6:39:56 GMT -5
Looks like your vacation was a success.
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