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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 3012 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #195 - May 11^th, 2016 at 10:10pm	Print Post
	This is Josh's prize from our amethyst prospect in Raleigh.

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Bryan Hubbell YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 10 Joined: Oct 21^st, 2013	Re: Wake County Reply #196 - May 12^th, 2016 at 5:18pm	Print Post
	That's a pretty good prize. Didn't even know there was a contest


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 3012 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #197 - May 13^th, 2016 at 11:37pm	Print Post
	A Hematite included quartz crystal I found in Wake Forest.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 3012 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #198 - Apr 12^th, 2019 at 8:11am	Print Post
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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 3012 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #199 - May 14^th, 2016 at 12:31am	Print Post
	Rutile blebs on quartz

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jgards86 Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 146 Location: Mebane, NC Joined: May 11^th, 2015 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #200 - May 15^th, 2016 at 1:30pm	Print Post
	Ahh that's the rutile you were taking about! Nice!


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4303 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #201 - May 15^th, 2016 at 10:54pm	Print Post
	Great pics, Scott. Love the smokey! That rutile looks different than what we're used to seeing. No reticulation? A slight anatase look to it? Is this type of rutile formation something different/new to you?


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 3012 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #202 - May 16^th, 2016 at 8:26am	Print Post
	JoeM wrote on May 15^th, 2016 at 10:54pm: Great pics, Scott. Love the smokey! That rutile looks different than what we're used to seeing. No reticulation? A slight anatase look to it? Is this type of rutile formation something different/new to you? Yes, no I have not seen this type of formation in other Wake County rutile I've found. It is unusual for it not to be reticulated as you have pointed out. Who know if this isn't some sort of transitional artifact between the polymorphs of rutile -- brookite or anatase.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 3012 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #203 - May 23^rd, 2016 at 9:42pm	Print Post
	Here's a beautiful smoky tessin habit quartz crystal I found surface hunting a couple months ago. 8 x 4.5 x 3 cm

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NealLord YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 22 Joined: May 18^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #204 - May 24^th, 2016 at 3:30pm	Print Post
	Took my daughter to Mine Creek yesterday. She found this tiny crystal in the first 5 minutes.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4303 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #205 - Jun 7^th, 2016 at 11:09pm	Print Post
	Well, we have decided it is schorl, afterall. Now we're looking for Elbaite. Here are a couple more pieces from the tennis courts. The first little crystal has a nice patch of rutile on it and the second little crystal has mica running thru it.

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NealLord YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 22 Joined: May 18^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #206 - Jun 8^th, 2016 at 9:08am	Print Post
	Joe, I love the second one. That is amazing.


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NealLord YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 22 Joined: May 18^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #207 - Jun 14^th, 2016 at 5:46pm	Print Post
	A little quartz from mine creek. Please excuse all the photos. I am trying to figure out how to get all the details. The fifth photo is where I was experimenting with my microscope.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4303 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #208 - Jun 15^th, 2016 at 9:32am	Print Post
	Well done, Neal. It takes some practice, lights, camera, not so much action. I'm going to get some of that graph paper.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4303 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #209 - Jun 26^th, 2016 at 12:02am	Print Post
	Now that it's Summer, here are pics of some of my Spring finds. Seems I only find weird stuff anymore. You are now entering Wake County, "Home of Weird Rocks". Maybe that's just what everyone else is leaving for me to find. Like these iron oxide coated quartz concretions in the first pic. They were all mixed in with the mica in the bottom of a fissure.

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