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Raleigh Rockhound Senior Member Offline www.RockHoundLounge. com Posts: 352 Joined: May 14^th, 2012	Yancey County Oct 10^th, 2012 at 9:14pm	Print Post
	Here are a few pieces from an adventure about a month ago, i ruined over half of my haul by leaving it in iron out for to long.� turned the matrix a nasty brown color and stained the kyanite blades a similar color.
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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Yancey County Reply #1 - Oct 10^th, 2012 at 9:36pm	Print Post
	That's some pretty stuff, too. Nice! Hard way to learn about the latent effects of iron out. But that's the way we do.


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dan Full Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 248 Joined: Feb 14^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Yancey County Reply #2 - Oct 10^th, 2012 at 10:02pm	Print Post
	Good looking kyanite!!


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Ezdiggin YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 18 Joined: Nov 7^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Yancey County Reply #3 - Jan 12^th, 2013 at 10:30pm	Print Post
	All from the ray mine, yancey county Large 50 lb. piece with 11 inch mica, several beryl, several perfectly terminated apatite, and a drill hole through the back.� One of my favorites Beryl and apatite Drill hole Clorophane (fluorite) normal light Clorophane on medium heat over stove, no light. Thermoluminescence Very small doubly terminated golden beryl, anyone have one smaller?�


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Ezdiggin YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 18 Joined: Nov 7^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Yancey County Reply #4 - Jan 12^th, 2013 at 11:03pm	Print Post
	More ray mine beryl Can you see the beryl, after a rain. Same beryl as above. Another beryl terminated Another beryl doubly terminated. Two beryl end to end This pile of small beryl came from one large boulder. Probably 75-100 beryl. Most of them broke into pieces. Some doubly terminated and good matrix pieces came out. Large beryl about 10 inches by 10 inches from the grandfather mountain exhibit


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Raleigh Rockhound Senior Member Offline www.RockHoundLounge. com Posts: 352 Joined: May 14^th, 2012	Re: Yancey County Reply #5 - Jan 13^th, 2013 at 12:04am	Print Post
	Impressive stuff ez, that chlorophane is cool, was it from nc too?


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Ezdiggin YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 18 Joined: Nov 7^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Yancey County Reply #6 - Jan 13^th, 2013 at 10:00am	Print Post
	The chlorophane is from the ray mine, pretty rare up there.


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Raleigh Rockhound Senior Member Offline www.RockHoundLounge. com Posts: 352 Joined: May 14^th, 2012	Re: Yancey County Reply #7 - Jan 13^th, 2013 at 1:54pm	Print Post
	I had never heard of it before; thanks for sharing the pictures and the information. It's always fun to learn something cool about minerals.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Yancey County Reply #8 - Jan 14^th, 2013 at 8:42am	Print Post
	Yes, thanks for the pics, EZ. Great pieces! I'm with Raleigh Rockhound on the chlorophane. Tis new to me. Will have to read up on it some. Very nice quartz cluster from Montgomery Co. Joe


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Rebecca God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 653 Joined: Nov 11^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Yancey County Reply #9 - Jan 14^th, 2013 at 9:57am	Print Post
	Very nice haul. That chlorophane is neat. There are soooo many minerals up at the Ray. I love it there! I really need to get back. I keep saying it, but don't do it. I am going to make it a priority. Thanks for sharing!


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dave Full Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 247 Joined: Oct 4^th, 2010	Re: Yancey County Reply #10 - Jan 14^th, 2013 at 3:03pm	Print Post
	The chlorophane got real hot just after the floods in 2004. There was a good amount of it found then, it didn't interest me much so I never targeted it, but there was one particular area in the creek that it was found. The other interesting one is the elbaite that can be found there, although it was found up on the hill, high up next to one of the pits. I was able to dig some of that. -Dave


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Raleigh Rockhound Senior Member Offline www.RockHoundLounge. com Posts: 352 Joined: May 14^th, 2012	Re: Yancey County Reply #11 - Jan 14^th, 2013 at 10:45pm	Print Post
	I've heard stories of this elbaite but have yet to see any pictures, do you have to share, I'd love to see one.


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Ezdiggin YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 18 Joined: Nov 7^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Yancey County Reply #12 - Jan 15^th, 2013 at 7:18am	Print Post
	Dave, I can see why the creek started spitting out the fluorite after the floods, and I know where your talking about. The creek cut into a large area of the bank where some very interesting pegmatite was discarded many years ago. The area was full of amazonite which is the indication for most of all the rare and unusual minerals up there. If you go deep enough there are huge boulders with amazonite, elbaite, vugs with tiny crystals of feldspar, fluorite cubes which I only heard about, some pretty neat stuff. But it is all off limits now because its next to the creek. If you want to find the elbaite or chlorophane you have to find a spot with amazonite, break it up and look all over. Hard to find now Raleigh, I'll try to post a pic sometime soon, I don't have any really nice elbaite but I've seen some very clear pieces.


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dave Full Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 247 Joined: Oct 4^th, 2010	Re: Yancey County Reply #13 - Jan 15^th, 2013 at 5:37pm	Print Post
	I'll try and get a few photos posted soon of the elbaite.


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Laurie Adams Ex Member	Re: Yancey County Reply #14 - May 28^th, 2013 at 10:37am	Print Post
	KYANITE - Black Mtn. Range, Yancey County, NC.
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