SIMPSON QUARRY FIELD TRIP

APRIL 11, 2009

Lizette Story photo

A proud Lisa Hourigan with a stone full of garnets.  Lizette Story photo

Lizette Story photo

Beryls from 4 feet down in the dump.  Lizette Story photo

A mystery mineral found and photographed by Fred Davis on a sliver of feldspar roughly 2" by 1/2" by 1/2" with a blue-gray thin coating.

No, it's not hyalite. It's also easily scratched by a knife, so it's not hard like a silicate. No fluorescence.

Microclines uncovered on the 2008 field trip in the western prospect, still visible in 2009.  Tom Benedict photo.