[Rockhounds] [External] Re: Ongoing Eruptions...and green sand

[Gay, Kenny]

Nice dark blue tetrahexahedral Fluorite can be found at the Woodleaf Quarry, Rowan Co., NC. Very small, 2 mm would be a huge one, but transparent and nicely blue.
Kenny

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My wife does that to... We once were in a quarry  looking for tiny cube of fluorite.
Nobody found s..t. My wife Christel, picked a small rock up and asked "is this what you're looking for?".
A lot of paper has been used to describe the two crystals on that rock.
Tetrahexahedral fluorite (yes, tetrakishexahedral is probably also good) seems to be quite rare.
How they do it is a mystery... however, since I started reading Terry Pratchet's Diskworld book series I have gained some insight in what may be going on here...

Axel

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Van: Rockhounds <rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com> Namens Kreigh Tomaszewski
Verzonden: vrijdag 22 juni 2018 6:29
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Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Ongoing Eruptions...and green sand

I am the alleged expert in the family, but my wife (almost) always finds the best field specimens; my wife has more fun in the field, but has
(absolutely) no interest in the science behind the specimen. One of these things is not like the other.  One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not. I wish I had my wife's eyes. I'm just glad she shares.

Kreigh

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:37 PM, gary brown <gbrown at catspaw-minerals.com>
wrote:

> Green sand?  I just shipped home a baggie collected on South Point on 
> the Big Island (NOT the "Green Sand Beach"... that's OFF LIMITS).
> Dorothy (of the eagle eyes) spotted some small drifts right above the 
> waves.  How come I'm the geologist and SHE always spots the Good Stuff.
Oh well...
> pictures
> will be posted soon.
>
> Gary
>
> PS.   I'll check out Kitty's driveway on Saturday!  She may end up with
> some
> potholes in it.  Just saying...
>
>
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