New Photos From WNC need help

[surfice]

Can anyone please help id some of these images?These are some of what I've found the first two days in WNC!!Thanks














Thanks again and I'll post some cool saphiers i founds tommorow after they have there bath...LOL

[lizziebird]

Try going back to your original post and click "modify" so you can edit it. I think all you need to do is hit the enter/return key after each photo or written sentence, so they don't all run together like that. It'slikeyoupostedthepictureswithoutanyspacesinbetweenandthecomputerpostedthemalltogether. (It's like you posted the pictures without any spaces in-between and the computer posted them all together.)

Looks like you got some interesting rocks there, but I can't identify much from pictures.

[surfice]

Thanks lizziebird for the help I'll post some more later

[surfice]

Here are some more images let me know if the images are too large.Thanks again for all the help

[arappaho]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and try not to offend anyone
But Jeepers Creepers Mr. Surfice, you and JohnP could go out
rockhounding one morning and have the whole bed of a truck
filled by noon!
But that's the way we learn. That's the way we all learn and
continue to learn as we come to terms with this obsession.

One thing that is hard to tell sometimes when looking for 'red'
rocks is what is a mineral and what is just 'iron-staining' that has
leached into the rock. Like Pic 1, way at the top, appears to be
quartz stained with iron.
Now Pic 2 is something you are looking for. That's a piece of
pegmatite with a layer of biotite mica on top. That's what you
are going thru at the Crabtree Mine looking for emeralds. All kinds
of good minerals ie; garnet, tourmaline, beryl, form in pegmatites.
Sometimes you just take a 4 lb crack hammer and bust them open
to see if anything good falls out.
Pic 3 could be another piece of pegmatite. I can't tell for sure
from the pic what the black is?
Pic 5 & 6 Chalcedony?
Pic 7 Biotite mica doodad. Comes from a peg like in Pic 2.
Sometimes there will be a garnet or a beryl inside those lumps.
Pics 11 & 12 are of a nice piece of crystaline smokey? quartz w/
some white stuff stuck in a crack that has been seriously water
worn.
Can't say anything about the group pics of red rocks. It would be
nice if some of those are rubies, but just guessing, prepare
yourself for alot of iron staining going on.
Like Pics 1-4 of your second group of pics. I may not be seeing
it right but that looks like regular old massive quartz rock that
has a rind of iron stain on it.
Your last 3 pics may be something. Have to get a better look at
that last piece.

Sorry if this isn't much help. It's pretty much guess work trying to
go from pics, but since you went to the trouble to post so many
I thought I would give it a shot.
You just got to look at these rocks over and over again until you
recognize them. So keep on hunting!
Joe

[surfice]

Thank you very very much for replying arappaho..I live in Fla so just trying to enjoy this new passion for rockhunding..Thanks again and hopefully the pictures will get better as well..

[JohnP]

I've got a truck, let's fill it up. rofl

[surfice]

LMAO

[traveler]

You might want to clean these up before you go too far into the identifying. Since these look to mostly be quartz/silica based you might try soaking them in some iron out to clear up the red staining.

[scott]

Just as traveler said soak them in some iron out first. This will clear up any confusion of color by removing any iron stains. Also try taking the pictures out in sunlight. The incandescent or fluorescent light you are using is not bringing out the true colors of the rocks very well. When I use artifical light for my photos I use a mixture of fluorescent and halogen light lamps shining directly on my specimens.