Wow, I can't imagine picking up that many Morrow Mountains and Guilfords. Thats a lot of Quartz points.
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Those are nice. I have only picked up a couple like that but not nearly as nice. I know were some out croppings of quartz are and have looked around them but not found any crystals like that. There are big quartz boulders with quartz everywhere but I could not find a crystal. Do most outcroppings have crystals around Them?
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Butch here is another piece, half quartz half something, that my friend found on the same camp site.It was brought in for some reason becouse this site doesn't have raw quartz laying around like most of mine. Don't know what they were going in to use it for.
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Sam - I'm absolutely blown away. Where in the ..ll did ya get all em points. I ain't never seen that many in one place cept the National Museum. Wow. Did ya find all those. Course if some of the collections that I've seen under glass were spread out they might appear the same. Just mind boggling to see all of them spread out that way. ---Chuck
Pickett/Fentress County, Tn - Any day on this side of the grass is a good day. -Chuck-
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Butch I have not found any gold yet but have been looking and thinking about panning some, My brother has some land with a nice rocky creek thru it near Martins Gold Mine in York County. If you are in to panning let me now.
Scorpion= I have been fortunate to live where there is a lot of stuff and the farmers were nice. Also a few of the jobs I had put me in contact with land owners all over the county and the job I have now kind of does to. 36 years of looking. Not to much plowed up anymore though. I just posted some of my better stuff on my picture ablum thing that I just figured out how to use. Thanks
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Allright, let me try a first post and see if I can post pics
and only have it post once. :unsure:
Quartz is one of my favorite rocks. Just as there are hundreds
of varieties of rhyolite in the Slate Belt of the Piedmont of
the Southeastern United States, there are hundreds of varieties of
quartz as well. The further you get away from the Slate Belt, east
or west, the more quartz you will find being utilized. The
secondary status attributed to quartz by many archaeologists and
collectors alike really depends on "where" you are talking about.
In rock poor regions, such as the Coastal Plains, quartz cobbles
from creeks and streams were very much utilized.
I am located in Wake County NC, where there is a good mix of
materials, but the further east you go, the less rhyolite you will
see. By the amount of quartz artifacts in Shartis' collection I
would venture to guess he was located a bit further east of me?
Your chalcedonies, ie; Agate,Jasper,Chert,and Flint are also in the
Quartz family. Exact same chemical signature, just a different
process of formation. Which brings me to the point I wanted to make.
Quartz and Quartzite are two completely different animals. Formed
completely differently. It is good to know the difference to
understand the animal.
I wanted to add this two cents because quartz is always having
to struggle to be accepted as a valid lithic material and
someone needs to stick up for it!
Let me try and post a pic or two of some of the quartz points
I've found. First pic artifacts are from Wake Co. and the second
pic are points from a site in Granville Co.
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JoeM
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