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Collin Senior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 253 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #45 - Aug 25^th, 2014 at 10:42am	Print Post
	Surface hunting around areas that got pushed by machines -Coopers Ridge, Pittsboro, Chatham County, NC Easy findings!

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Collin Senior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 253 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #46 - Aug 25^th, 2014 at 10:45am	Print Post
	Coopers Ridge, Pittsboro, Chatham County, NC This one was also just sitting on the top, waiting to be picked up!

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L82Play Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 195 Joined: Jul 10^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #47 - Aug 25^th, 2014 at 12:02pm	Print Post
	Good find - surface hunting rocks! That's when the rocks are begging to be found... I especially like the way a good rock suddenly pops into sight looking good at first glance - immediately standing out - sometimes almost heart-stopping if its a really good rock - and that's as good as it gets at my age And its why you push on looking for the next one.... cheers, r

	sung to the tune of 'Green Acres' Erosion is the thing for me I just don't like to dig - you see Picking rocks up right off the ground is good enough for this lucky old rockhound
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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #48 - Oct 30^th, 2014 at 10:08pm	Print Post
	Quartz and Ilmenite.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #49 - Oct 31^st, 2014 at 1:52pm	Print Post
	Blue is the perfect accent color for the ilmenite. Lovely! Dimensions?


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #50 - Nov 4^th, 2014 at 10:30pm	Print Post
	I thought these two phantom crystals were interesting, where the normally encased phantom layer is exposed near the termination, and was wondering if anyone else had come across one like these. You have to wonder if the outer crystal was ever completed and broke at the phantom termination.............or not? Example # 1, 55mm x 28mm, first 3 pics Example # 2, 33mm x 18mm, two angles

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FireOnTheMountain Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 139 Joined: Mar 26^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #51 - Nov 5^th, 2014 at 7:33am	Print Post
	Those are very cool! I have found one in Montgomery co.� where half of the chlorite phantom was included in the crystal, and the other half completely exposed. Strange looking piece. http://www.rockhoundlounge.com/cgi-bin/yabb252/YaBB.pl?num=1410214311
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rockytoprockshop Full Member Offline www.RockHoundLounge. com Posts: 142 Location: north carolina Joined: Oct 24^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #52 - Nov 5^th, 2014 at 9:34am	Print Post
	There is a spot just off SR 1005 south of Troy near the Onvil community where you can find very similar quartz that has red hematite sprinkling the surface and within the crystals as well as an almost identical occurence about 2 miles away off another road. The first also has nice limonite cubes. I noticed that there are several localities south of Troy that have red hematite inclusions common on the quartz and the Chip Road site also had nice hex crystals of ilmenite.


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #53 - Nov 5^th, 2014 at 11:00am	Print Post
	Great pictures Joe! That last specimen is an awesome example of that. I also have a few specimens like that although not as good as yours. The hematite coating obviously creates a weak spot for the higher grade and less included quartz to break away from. Sometime in its past a stress was applied on it that was high enough to break it. I believe that's probably what created these "unsheathed" specimens. This behavior probably happens with any heavily included phantoms in quartz as can be seen by FireOnTheMountain's chlorite example. I assume the outer sheath could potentially be dissolved as well.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #54 - Nov 8^th, 2014 at 6:44pm	Print Post
	Yes, that chlorite phantom is a good comparison to the hematite phantoms. I was thinking we'd better stick a nicely included phantom in here for comparison as well, so here's a vermicular chlorite included phantom from Coopers Ridge. First a front view and a close-up of the phantom. Last pic is a side view close-up of the "faden-like" base we find on some of the crystals from here.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #55 - Nov 12^th, 2014 at 11:12pm	Print Post
	Going thru some tail-ends from Coopers Ridge I found this little beauty. Green and white vermicular chlorite and speclarite in the same phantom crystal. The whole piece is a little over an inch long. The last pic is a close-up of the "floor" of the crystal as seen in Pic 3. I couldn't resist trying to get a better look at it.

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dave Full Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 247 Joined: Oct 4^th, 2010	Re: Chatham County Reply #56 - Nov 13^th, 2014 at 11:58am	Print Post
	that thing is Funky! And a LIKE it! Thanks for sharing. -Dave


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #57 - Nov 14^th, 2014 at 8:12pm	Print Post
	Nothin" if ain't Funky!


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Collin Senior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 253 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #58 - Nov 20^th, 2014 at 3:55pm	Print Post
	Nice pic Joe, it's like a little world inside there!


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chatham County Reply #59 - Nov 21^st, 2014 at 4:27pm	Print Post
	I like how the hematite phantom is like a little tent or canopy over the chlorite.

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