Rutile quartz/matrix

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:10 pm

found this while prospecting. rutile crystal formations all over it as well as some visible gold. going to take pics with the digital cam. cool though

cam on phone is not doing it much justice..will take pics and more angles with dig cam.

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:53 pm

I'd like to see some closer photos, i'm not seeing rutile on there. Definitely looks like the quartz has been etched and altered though.

-Dave

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:57 pm

Nice. Closer pics of the gold please.

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:14 pm

These pics do it more justice. Damn camera batteries died on me..I wanted to get another shot of the many crystal clusters. I cant get the gold to show up....its hardly visible to naked eye and with my cam skills...lol. I gotta get new batteries anyway so I can get another shot of the crystals on the other side. Correct me if im wrong on this...as I know greendave and several others really know their gems and minerals Smile

. Also need to clean it up..

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:04 am

Neat speciman thanks for posting it. I will get some pics up of some tourmaline specimens I got a couple months back.

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:41 am

if you like to collect rutile you need to go to graves mountain in lincolnton, GA. they have nice crystals there but they are hard to find

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:46 am

Ive found some really nice rutilated quartz in the allatoona creeks. Nice specimen hatter.

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:38 pm

I was walking on a gravel bar and seen it. I want to get some shots of the other side...its got a ton of little rutile crystals in a cluster with no pattern. Looks cool. Thanks fellas.

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:32 pm

I'm gonna have to say epidote on this one. Are the crystals green and semi translucent? Rutile is a titanium oxide, and typically seen as a gun metal silver gray (think Terminator) or ruby red. I'm not seeing the metallic luster that defines rutile. Other culprits could be apatite or even beryl, but that piece looks like epidote to me.

-Dave

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:09 pm

Actually yes the crystals on the other side are a green hue and slight translucent. Wished I had took pics of those before it died. I think you are right dave. Thanks..

What is this on scale of rarity? Lol just curious

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:26 pm

pretty common actually. But what you need to do is keep tracking it, when you find a quartz vein that is crystallizing into water clear crystals and you have dark gemmy green rutile needles included inside the quartz...then we're talkin.....there was a very awesome pocket of that found, in a very secret location of alamance county several years ago.....randolph county is well known for quartz specimens.

-Dave