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Tim4d God Member Offline I like creeks & rivers to do the digging for me. Posts: 658 Location: Chester, VA Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Creek Crawling for Moonstone Jun 15^th, 2014 at 11:07pm	Print Post
	Rebeca, Chip and I picked some nice moonstone from a central Virginia creek today. We would have stayed longer had the horseflies not found us in the late afternoon.

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Tim4d God Member Offline I like creeks & rivers to do the digging for me. Posts: 658 Location: Chester, VA Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Creek Crawling for Moonstone Reply #1 - Jun 15^th, 2014 at 11:09pm	Print Post
	Today's finds. Nice chunks of moonstone, some with sizable zones clear of fracture. Rebecca M Ford found that door-stop moonstone in my hand. The small green stone is probably kyanite. The three dark balls are deeply weathered garnets. All pulled from a creek in central Virginia.

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dave Full Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 247 Joined: Oct 4^th, 2010	Re: Creek Crawling for Moonstone Reply #2 - Jun 16^th, 2014 at 9:55am	Print Post
	That small green stone is amazonite. -Dave


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Tim4d God Member Offline I like creeks & rivers to do the digging for me. Posts: 658 Location: Chester, VA Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Creek Crawling for Moonstone Reply #3 - Jun 16^th, 2014 at 11:48pm	Print Post
	Not sure. I'll have to do some testing. Is blade like in shape, not blocky like the moonstone at this site or the amazonite at Morefield Mine. Structure just not the same. Feldspar at this site seems to be either rotten pegmatite or the moonstone. Site is known for occasional blade of kyanite.


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Tim4d God Member Offline I like creeks & rivers to do the digging for me. Posts: 658 Location: Chester, VA Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Creek Crawling for Moonstone Reply #4 - Jun 17^th, 2014 at 10:29pm	Print Post
	Cobbled together a candling rig tonight to examine some of the translucent moonstones for clean zones.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4210 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Creek Crawling for Moonstone Reply #5 - Jun 17^th, 2014 at 10:39pm	Print Post
	Looks like a real comfortable place to hunt for rocks on a hot summers day! Y'all made quite a haul! Cool backlit pics. Can't wait to see what some of the cabs look like!


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Tim4d God Member Offline I like creeks & rivers to do the digging for me. Posts: 658 Location: Chester, VA Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Creek Crawling for Moonstone Reply #6 - Jun 17^th, 2014 at 11:07pm	Print Post
	I'll bring some down to Robert this Saturday.� I think he could cab out some of this sooner than I can rehab my equipment. Seems like when I have free time, I go back into the field instead of fixing and setting up my shop.�


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lagniappe YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 22 Joined: May 18^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: Creek Crawling for Moonstone Reply #7 - Jun 18^th, 2014 at 9:22pm	Print Post
	That's a nice haul! I have a few nice pieces of moonstone I found at Morefield Mine a few years back.


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