Fridays Rock! Magnetite & More by rt395

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Fridays Rock! Magnetite & More
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Spending the weekend extreme social distancing again, this time in Utah. I like to get up here at least once a year. This year I was able to locate another, new mineral locality, magnetite. It's actually spread across three different mountain ranges and I was only able to make it to one, but it paid off.


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The magnetites from Utah are different than most others around the world except Pakistan. The magnetite here forms 2 different crystal types, octahedral and dodecahedral. The specimens I found today all belong to the octahedral group. The dodecahedral are very rare and as far as I know are found in only one mine, which I don't know the location of yet.

There is also apatite, siderite, barite, amethyst and calcite I found.


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One other benefit of being up here is checking out land. I was able to drive by a few of the parcels I was looking at. I'm seriously considering it as Utah promotes rock hounding for tourism. I'm also thinking of offering mineral hunting tours to my Japanese dealers & friends. Gotta stay positive in these crazy times. No time to stop when there is work to do.


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Tomorrow I'm going to hunt Red Beryl, one of the rare gemstones in the world. Wish me luck!
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