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Gems and Gemstones: The Diamonds of the Wyoming Craton
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This describes hunting for gems and gemstones. Tuesday, July 24, 2012. The Diamonds of the Wyoming Craton. Bedrock map of North America USGS. This is a tale about how riches were overlooked in. That remain unexplored. This area was originally discovered by early gold miners who discovered it contained little or no gold so they passed it on. Subsequent discoveries indicate this may be one of the most unexplored diamond provinces in. Also contains large deposits of colored gemstones as rubies and sapphires...
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Gems and Gemstones: July 2011
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This describes hunting for gems and gemstones. Saturday, July 30, 2011. Gemstone Occurrences in Connecticut. Almandine garnet, Connecticut's state stone. Photo by Rob Lavinsky. Is amply endowed with gemstones ranging from andalusite to zircons. The stones found in. Are found in a variety of terranes although the primary one is pegmatites, but they are also found in the trap ridges of the. Even more are found as glacial float if you want to use that method of finding gems. Beryl crystals on Feldspar.
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Gems and Gemstones: August 2012
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This describes hunting for gems and gemstones. Thursday, August 9, 2012. A variety of tumbled gemstones. Scanned by Adrian Pingstone. That has been preserved since the age of dinosaurs is found in several places in. Where there are Cretaceous rocks one of these places in the area around. Although they can be found scattered throughout the Cretaceous. Rocks and various localities throughout southern. Amethyst is found in the many trap ridges of. In both the area of the. Has been known to produce albite, c...
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Gems and Gemstones: The Great Arizona Diamond Swindle
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This describes hunting for gems and gemstones. Tuesday, July 24, 2012. The Great Arizona Diamond Swindle. Ship Rock close to the diamond fields. The guys that dreamed up the Great Arizona Diamond Swindle. Sure did a good job of it, and one that sucked in some smart money from both coasts. Its locality was way out in the boonies of. Bluntly it was salted with uncut stones from. By Phillip Arnold and John B. Slack who claimed to have found precious gems in the. A large group of investors visited the diggin...
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Gems and Gemstones: May 2012
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This describes hunting for gems and gemstones. Saturday, May 19, 2012. Minerals of Litchfield County, Connecticut. Platy ilmenite crystals encrusted on feldspar from Litchfield, Connecticut. Make an offer over $2,500. Connecticut has a very complex geology and a wide variety of minerals that ti date have been largely out of scope to the mineral collector. James Dwight Dana in a painting by Danial Huntington - 1858. It is possible our long abandoned mine site is a Dana Locality. In New Haven, Connecticut ...
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Gems and Gemstones: June 2012
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This describes hunting for gems and gemstones. Thursday, June 28, 2012. What Diamond Crystals look Like. Interpenetrating cubes of diamond. Photo by Rob Lavinsky. The macle another form of diamond crystal. Photo by Rob Lavinsky. One of the stranger forms of diamond growth is exemplified by the rough diamonds from the Ekati, Diavik and. So they came prepared for the Canadian weather. How this came about was the diamond crystal had more then one stage of growth. George E., The Nature of Diamonds,. With man...
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Gems and Gemstones: July 2012
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This describes hunting for gems and gemstones. Tuesday, July 24, 2012. The Great Arizona Diamond Swindle. Ship Rock close to the diamond fields. The guys that dreamed up the Great Arizona Diamond Swindle. Sure did a good job of it, and one that sucked in some smart money from both coasts. Its locality was way out in the boonies of. Bluntly it was salted with uncut stones from. By Phillip Arnold and John B. Slack who claimed to have found precious gems in the. A large group of investors visited the diggin...
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Gold, Mining and Prospecting: January 2012
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This is about the gold mining and prospecting industry. Tell your friends about us! You can find our blog at http:/ goldminingandprospecting.blogspot.com We've been working on our new book about East Coast Gold that should be ready by October. If you want to reserve a hard copy go to geotekllc@gmail.com. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Gold Occurrences in Colombia. Plate tectonics found in Colombia. It doesn’t happen very often, but. Was the subject of a whole section in Engineering and Mining Journal ( E&MJ.
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Gold, Mining and Prospecting: October 2011
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This is about the gold mining and prospecting industry. Tell your friends about us! You can find our blog at http:/ goldminingandprospecting.blogspot.com We've been working on our new book about East Coast Gold that should be ready by October. If you want to reserve a hard copy go to geotekllc@gmail.com. Friday, October 28, 2011. How a Gold mine is Created. An open pit gold mine. Photo by Patrick Huber. A recent question that was posed to the author on www.allexperts.com. A gold nugget from a placer mine.