Finding Gemstones | Guide to Gemstone Deposits in Nature

Since 1977, dozens of previously unrecorded gem and precious metal occurrences were identified in Wyoming & nearby regions, and include diamond, ruby, sapphire, pyrope garnet, chromian diopside, peridot, opal, kyanite, gold, agate, jasper, iolite, silver, PGM, nickel & others. These were found by geological mapping, remote sensing, geophysics, mineral associations, & geochemistry. Two world-class iolite deposits were also found, along with significant gold deposits and others.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

NEW GEMSTONE DISCOVERIES

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A 368-page book published in 2014 with color photos, provides insight into the physical characteristics of raw gemstones, listing dozen...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Green Rocks and Minerals

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Nephrite jade from Wyoming This past fall, I was working on a gold project near Cheyenne, Wyoming and met two old friends for dinner. One ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Wyoming - The Gemstone State

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Gem-quality pyrope garnet faceted from rough collected at Butcherknife   Draw near Green River, Wyoming. Colored  gemstones were almost...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Geology of Gemstone Deposits

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Large chlorite pseudomorph after garnet found in the Sierra Madre Mountains, Wyoming. The chlorite slowly replaced the garnet and accepted...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

DIAMONDS, DIAMONDS & MORE DIAMONDS

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Gem diamonds from Kelsey Lake Colorado . My first experience in diamond hunting occurred back when I mapped the Wyoming State Line kim...
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CAPE RUBIES, CAPE EMERALDS, GARNETS

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Diamonds were discovered in Wyoming & Colorado in 1975 by Mac McCallum, Chuck Mabarak & the USGS. This lead to some exploration for ...

GOLD & OTHER PRECIOUS METALS

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Mineralized terrains of Wyoming (after Hausel and Hausel, 2011 ). Little was known about gold in Wyoming when I began research on the geolo...
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OTHER GEMS

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Blue barite from the Mine Hills near Shirley Basin, Wyoming While conducting field research over 3 decades while at the Wyoming Geologica...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

OPAL

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Resistant, opal, boulder adjacent to rock hammer in Tertiary volcaniclastics, with a seam of resistant opal lying beneath the  boulder and h...
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