Mystery Green Rock Found In Glacial Till Turns Into Spectacular Green Gemstones

[@ratcheeroo1185]

Hey great video! Awesome find, I knew it was a special one! So glad I sent that to you, the cabs look amazing! Guess I am going to spend a bit more time looking for some more of that. Thanks so much!!

[@pretzel2272]

Absolutely amazing! 😊

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thanks again!

[@scottlemurianboxer]

Thanks for finding and sending this! I'm wearing some of this epidote now 😂😂 made a awesome pendant.

[@scottlemurianboxer]

Proud owner of one of those Pendants! Looks better in person awesome Epidote, transitions from black-green to light green very well!

[@oscarmedina1303]

Look up the Bowen's reaction series. Olivine and Quartz are in the same sequence of "Discontinuous series of crystallization" along with Pyroxene and Amphibole (the other minerals in your specimen). The crystalline structure indicates igneous instead of metamorphic. Very nice find.

[@RockhoundingLife]

Its interestimg you mention this as I did consider the possibility of it being a mafic igneous rock. But that would mean the white mineral would have to be feldspar and not quartz as quartz is a felsic mineral and highly unlikely to be foumd with any mafic silicate. I settled on epidote and quartz due to colour and locality where there is a high amount of metamorphic material. But im not 100% sold on that identification. Its possible its a mafic igneous rock made up of amphibole pyroxene and feldspar. If it is it is something i have not seen locally before and extremly rare.

[@carriephilippi]

Whatever it is, it's beautiful 😍

[@csm5130]

The green looks also like peridot, nice piece!!!

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

That was my first impression! But I'm not very knowledgeable, so I'm not one to use as a "source". (But not saying anything of you! Of course I don't know you. Cheers!)

[@RockhoundingLife]

Peridote is Olivine. Olivine and quartz do not occur naturally together which is why i eliminated it from beimg peridote(olivine)

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

@@RockhoundingLife That's the kind of stuff I don't know! Fwiw, I posted my comment at the start (really, first impression) but I did catch the end of that part and thought it was great!

[@kathythompson2710]

Looks just like serpentine found in Washington state.

[@mellewedin8221]

So that is a awesome find, I find that here in my State. I live in Vermont! There is actually some this at my local Walmart in their rock beds. I constantly pulling awesome green rocks from their.

[@jonnsgirl]

Really beautiful cabs, wow! I love epidote. I have a mystery green rock that I found in NB while collecting on a gravel road. I keep meaning to send you a pic. It looks like a pebble of green glass.

[@pretzel2272]

What an amazing rock! The cabs are beautiful! 😍🤩

[@NickAcker2019]

Thanks to the NB viewer!! Cabbing that was a great call. Have you ever collected material on the NB side of the Bay of Fundy?

[@Goaded_Thistle]

My daughter has a mystery stone that looks similar. Very heavy, she hasn't been able to crack it open with a hammer, slightly magnetic, glows a lovely green when a light is held up to it. This gives me some clues!

[@RockhoundingLife]

That is interesting! I'd love to see a picture. If you are up to it you can send it to me via email to [e-mail]

[@Goaded_Thistle]

@RockhoundingLife I'll send you a couple pics. She's been searching for leads for over a year.

[@TaneKarnes]

Great color, nice big stone. I was expecting large pebble 🏞

[@Giulia-yq4nj]

Michelangelo the sculptor said: its so easy, the figure are inside the marble...

[@Mike-br8vb]

The cabs look great! Nice identification!

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thanks!

[@sandmaker]

Amazingly beautiful cabs. Great polish!

[@RockhoundingLife]

Many thanks!

[@AvalonDreamz]

Looks like Jadeite. Even the outer husk. I think you got you a hunk of jadeite. Not a high quality, but makes a nice cab.

[@RockhoundingLife]

I think it is too soft for jadeite. And this part of the world doesnt have much or any jadeite that i know of.

[@oscarmedina1303]

Jadeite is not found in the part of the world where this was found. Nephrite is possible but the crystalline structure is wrong.

[@gwynnfarrell1856]

Cool rock formation, gorgeous cabs!

[@RockhoundingLife]

Many thanks!

[@jimenezfamily7484]

😢I missed out on these on the Etsy store. I love epidote. Great video!

[@newmoonmeteorites4430]

Hi Again. Steve, New Hampshire, family is from up that way. Just thought I'd add a few words to save you a bit of time and keep you from writing me off as another internet nut. I'm a Geographer, UNH, '90. I've been taking care of Mom, dementia, for 7 years, with less and less time to explore and learn about what I've discovered. A minimum 900 sq. mile strewn field from about 70 years ago, (I suspect during hurricane Edna, 1954), or maybe heavy snow winters of '59-'61. Doesn't really matter when... 4 chem anal match known Lunar samples. It looks Lunar. There is glass, with fragments of mica and rock deposited/smeared on damaged trees, scraped in a downward direction. It's really elementary, obvious. Recently got thin section of glass on large "glacial erratic" with I believe are wood/bark fibers in the thick glass, bubbled glass, (goes dark under polarized light). No crater. Ejecta from the moon moves slow, not crater speed. It would land at terminal velocity, 280 mph. No crater. I've recently noticed that a lot of what I'm finding for smaller pieces are solid glass, impact melt, with glass spheres like China found in the soil samples. Lots and lots of all kinds of impact melt, some clearish, some with mica and breccia. What I noticed was it all looked like the "erratics" and mountains that have been here for much longer than 70 years. I have thin sections showing Mt. Major and Mt. Katahdin are coated in glass. So, I guess there no size limit to this concept. I've taken a look at videos, and consider the sierra nevadas, (yosemite), the black hills in South Dakota, and the Scottish Highlands to be very possibly Lunar origin as well. Oh, big bend Natl park too. Not crazy, just figuring stuff out that has been poorly explained up to now, or maybe hasn't caught up with the Lunar info yet...

[@leeta56]

Beautiful. My color is green.

[@Timothious_Maximus]

Looks like Serpentine to me, at least from the outside.

[@karencole1623]

Those are very beautiful!

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you! 😊

[@williamproctor4388]

I knew those were going to make some awesome cabs.😎

[@RockhoundingLife]

Oh yeah!

[@melodyhart1331]

Pretty cabs.

[@kirsiselei8703]

Wow, looking amazing😍❤️

[@RockhoundingLife]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@judelightfoot6444]

That looks very similar to material I collected in Meat Cove CB.

[@rajku8126]

I have also one brown & black

[@ladygreenflame]

I have a small hunk of epidote that's pretty dark.

[@scottlemurianboxer]

Those are actually very nice! Im interested, especially because you said it will have bezel, those need to be in a bezel. So it will have a bezel you can confirm? I'm seriously considering getting one in the morning, before work (id have to go to the Bank and get it out of the savings account) PS my favorite of yours is still the Lepidolite. Lol

[@JenniferWilson-j7e]

Just for fun, they should call it Kryptonite. 😂🎉

[@martincotterill2132]

😂❤😂

[@ikestoddard2458]

Would epidot have an index of refraction that is special?

[@RockhoundingLife]

Yes you can facet it

[@millypugh7240]

I have one smilar i found n southern alberta, but the green is much denser. Wish i could send a photo

[@RockhoundingLife]

You can send it to [e-mail]

[@RickSmith-kp3sy]

Prehnite?

[@markkilley2683]

The black isn't biotite or apatite, or similar?

[@RockhoundingLife]

No. Under the microscope they are dark green.

[@Vongabe1985]

Wow its serpertnite

[@STandM3]

Hi I don’t see them on your site, sent a message on FB

[@RockhoundingLife]

Up there now

[@EdWeibe]

Put it under black light.

[@scottprather5645]

Serpentine

[@RockhoundingLife]

Too soft

[@scottprather5645]

@RockhoundingLife serpentine can vary from a hardness of three to six on the Mohs scale

[@FirstDjfiresf-nn1im]

Green jasper in my opinion

[@richardservatius5405]

nephrite jade

[@milesduggan4996]

Bad speaker on phone but did you say tomahawk microscope?

[@gwynnfarrell1856]

Tomlov, see description.

[@milesduggan4996]

Bad speaker on phone but did you say tomahawk microscope?

[@melodyhart1331]

TOMALOV 4K microscope.