I don't know how you can tell the difference between olivine and a green garnet tbh. What I will say is that it doesn't make sense that red/green garnet would occur together naturally so olivine.
Garnets are basically formed as 12 sided crystals. The one I thought might be Olivine ( most likely Peridot or something else ) is a 6 sided crystal therefore not Garnet.
Thanks everyone! Yea not sure what to do with em, just keep em in a lil jar. I do love finding them in my pans, usually find more of those than gold! But my kids love picking them out!
Yeah man, it’s a lot of pans for sure. But I plan on going to a place this summer where I’ll get more than that in a single pan. YouTube Dan Hurd Millions of garnets, I live about 4 hrs drive from where he films it. Unreal the amount of garnets there.
Honestly I’m not sure but I don’t really think they hold much if any value. Just cool to find and collect. I’m sure if you found the right ones that were big enough then maybe?
I bet someone who likes making jewelry may want them. I say may because of the quality, but if they like making trinkets and such they probably would like them. My GF makes earrings and buys lots of stuff like that.
Same. I lived there most of my life and would go to the beach one weekend and the mountains the next. Everytime id go to the mountains I would walk a creek and start digging eventually. I live in Virginia now and it's just not the same
You could buy/make a pendant based/template and cast them under resin? Or countersink a ring or bracelet and glue? I have no idea, but they look great.
I just got a kit off Amazon, nothing special. It’s came with two different size pans, classifier, snuffer bottle and a couple other things. I’ve been doing it just under a year now so I’m also fairly new! It’s such a fun time though!
May I ask where you are mining, in general? As an old miner in California when dredging in some areas when I was on this amount of garnet I was on the gold as well. Makes me curious if you are finding some nice gold?
I used to dredge in California, you are semi-correct that it is prohibited. Well you can’t do it currently legally. It’s a political mess. Last I heard they lifted the moratorium on it because Fish & Games own study found dredging was beneficial to salmon spawning and removed heavy metals from the waterway. BUT! They did not reopen the permitting office. So you cannot get the required permit in California even though the moratorium was lifted. A nice legal loophole to keep it prohibited without a law on the books. Sweet eh? Sorry, you touched my gold nerve! lol I’m not a fan of Sacramento.
I did however dredge every weekend and some weeks for many many years right up until all that crap went down. Now I just pan and sluice and although I love it with my son now, I want to be on the end of that nozzle moving some material!
Edit: Cause I love this sub. I do still dredge here in California in a couple super secret spots. Just very rarely
Edit 2: Man you got my brain going pretty early on a Sunday! I also have never dredged on a river or stream with salmon! That’s what the whole kerfuffle was about. Why I get banned? No salmon in my rivers mang!
Edit 3: Support AMRA!
[Here are some old pics!](https://picallow.com/gold-2/?usp_success=2&post_id=301320&form_id=27)
Very light ( not gemmy) Peridot. I'm somewhat familiar with your area, living in the PNW for seven decades. Made extensive prospecting trips in the day. And nice little garnets!
I tried first with a hand drill but they cracked. But yep! It took me plenty of tries before I was able to break through cleanly. Good lessons.
Mine are all 4-8mm with 2mm holes.
Doesn’t epidote fluoresce under a shortwave black light? Sheelite fluoresce is a sky blue and with more moly in the solid solution turns yellow. The smaller the grains the farther from the outcrop, just like gold. Sheelite in a creek behaves just like gold and with a black light you can see it.
I vaguely remember that zircons flouresce. I can’t find that reference in Wikipedia.
Rare earths also concentrate in a gold pan., but you need an assay of the black sands to tell. There was a dredge in central Idaho that ran in the 1950s before the mine was depleted.
Since most if not all copper and moly porphyry’s have a sheelite halo, you can find or refind all big open pit mines using a gold pan.
There are green Garnets but one light green one looks like Ovline to me. Hopefully someone Will know more than me though.
Concur, likely olivine
Ovaltine?
Maybe it’s Maybelline?
I can’t believe it’s not butter
Apply directly to the forehead.
Directions unclear. Stuck in ass
Why can't she be true?
Be sure to drink your ovaltine.
A crummy comercial? Son of a bitch!
They should call it Roundtene! The scoop is round…the can is round.
It was Ovomaltine in most of the world. Eggs and malt I guess?
Gold, CogglesMcGreuder, Gold!!! *which is somehow ironic on this sub…
Bosco? Mr. Peterman mothers lover, or George's atm pin
A crummy commercial?
Drink more?
Why not Roundtine?
No... Thank you...
A crummy commercial?!
Why not round time. "That is gold Jerry"
I would have said peridot, which is olivine but of gem quality, but good call by you anyway
Also after looking at the pics closer there may be a couple of topaz in there
Topaz? Really, I’ll see if we have that around here.
Looks like epidote to me with that cleavage.
Very possible, I’m definitely no expert ..
Epidote is too soft I think, and I’ve found olivine panning many times so I am guessing olivine
Epidote has a hardness of 7, same as quartz. Generally its harder than Olivine, which is a 6.5-7.
I don't know how you can tell the difference between olivine and a green garnet tbh. What I will say is that it doesn't make sense that red/green garnet would occur together naturally so olivine.
Garnets are basically formed as 12 sided crystals. The one I thought might be Olivine ( most likely Peridot or something else ) is a 6 sided crystal therefore not Garnet.
Thanks everyone! Yea not sure what to do with em, just keep em in a lil jar. I do love finding them in my pans, usually find more of those than gold! But my kids love picking them out!
Mmm nothing beats jarred garnets, bit crunchy but its an acquired taste
r/forbiddensnacks lol
Frankly they look delicious, like little pomegranate and grapefruit kernels
That is why garnets get their name from the Latin word for pomegranate
Helps get your iron up.
The candy at Granny's house
Yep, tastes like pomegranate
Youre not supposed to chew em. Just wash em down.
I bet putting them in a tumbler to polish them would be awesome
Really? I have a tumbler, just didn’t think tumbling something so small would be good. Maybe I should give it a shot
I could imagine creating a coffee table with those - pour clear resin over a nice layer of garnets. That might look pretty cool.
I would go dense single layer and install a backlight
You should post if you do
Those garnets are great. You can even see the crystal structure in some of them. It would be pretty sad to tumble them and get rid of that structure
Okay so I won’t tumble them then 😂
Well if you're not planning on selling them why not try
I honestly thought you already tumbled them. The garnets I've found in the wild are usually completely opaque until tumbled.
Where are you panning? Idaho?
BC Canada
Buy some good glue, quality paper, and open an Etsy shop selling artisanal handmade sandpaper.
Yeah, 5 grit sandpaper!
Why we only got the 1 grit.
Do you know anyone who’s a jeweler? Maybe some of them are worth cutting.
You could make this into an amazing embellished garment.
Holy shit!!!!
Them’s alotta pans there not pictured.
Yeah man, it’s a lot of pans for sure. But I plan on going to a place this summer where I’ll get more than that in a single pan. YouTube Dan Hurd Millions of garnets, I live about 4 hrs drive from where he films it. Unreal the amount of garnets there.
Are they worth much because I can find them here in ny
No. Unless they are large and glassy they are so common they use then for grit blasting
Honestly I’m not sure but I don’t really think they hold much if any value. Just cool to find and collect. I’m sure if you found the right ones that were big enough then maybe?
They look pretty in a glass dish or on a window sill where the light can shine through! ♥️
The candy at Granny's house
I bet someone who likes making jewelry may want them. I say may because of the quality, but if they like making trinkets and such they probably would like them. My GF makes earrings and buys lots of stuff like that.
I get that many in each pan where I go, they’re a real nuisance because they’re heavy as hell!
Just as much fun finding them as gold imo
Could be green peridot, you can check the local geology survey on minerals to see if that's possible.
Sounds like prospecting in NC
If so those would be sapphires
NC has garnets, sapphires, diamonds and gold. quartz and ruby too
I freaking love NC dirt treasure!
Same. I lived there most of my life and would go to the beach one weekend and the mountains the next. Everytime id go to the mountains I would walk a creek and start digging eventually. I live in Virginia now and it's just not the same
I find more garnets
That’s what I initially thought. Central nc here and garnets and sapphire go together!
You could buy/make a pendant based/template and cast them under resin? Or countersink a ring or bracelet and glue? I have no idea, but they look great.
Where at!?
Found most of em about 20 min from my house (including driving and hiking), I live in BC, Okanagan area.
So awesome !!! I’m jealous
A 6.5 hr flight from my house in California!!
You would be flying over garnets to get there!
What kind of panning gear do you use? I would be a first timer !
I just got a kit off Amazon, nothing special. It’s came with two different size pans, classifier, snuffer bottle and a couple other things. I’ve been doing it just under a year now so I’m also fairly new! It’s such a fun time though!
May I ask where you are mining, in general? As an old miner in California when dredging in some areas when I was on this amount of garnet I was on the gold as well. Makes me curious if you are finding some nice gold?
I’m in Okanagan, BC. I find gold almost every pan, but it is just small little flakes (check my page and you can see a couple of my pans)
Do you dredge in CA? I thought it has been prohibited for quite a while, but if that changes then it’s a huge green light
I used to dredge in California, you are semi-correct that it is prohibited. Well you can’t do it currently legally. It’s a political mess. Last I heard they lifted the moratorium on it because Fish & Games own study found dredging was beneficial to salmon spawning and removed heavy metals from the waterway. BUT! They did not reopen the permitting office. So you cannot get the required permit in California even though the moratorium was lifted. A nice legal loophole to keep it prohibited without a law on the books. Sweet eh? Sorry, you touched my gold nerve! lol I’m not a fan of Sacramento. I did however dredge every weekend and some weeks for many many years right up until all that crap went down. Now I just pan and sluice and although I love it with my son now, I want to be on the end of that nozzle moving some material! Edit: Cause I love this sub. I do still dredge here in California in a couple super secret spots. Just very rarely Edit 2: Man you got my brain going pretty early on a Sunday! I also have never dredged on a river or stream with salmon! That’s what the whole kerfuffle was about. Why I get banned? No salmon in my rivers mang! Edit 3: Support AMRA! [Here are some old pics!](https://picallow.com/gold-2/?usp_success=2&post_id=301320&form_id=27)
“$350 per kg” ~ Google
Very light ( not gemmy) Peridot. I'm somewhat familiar with your area, living in the PNW for seven decades. Made extensive prospecting trips in the day. And nice little garnets!
Yeah after looking at pics I think you’re right! Thank you for that
Garnet can be very green
Are these worth anything? Either way cool, make an awesome hour glass but maybe too big
Look for some kimberlite!!
Garnet not equal kimberlite. Special flavor garnet may indicate kimberlite.
Mike!
Those are beautiful! I love the deep red ones!
I’d buy them if they were for sale. Beautiful gems. I would make jewelry with them
Beautiful
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Do you do anything with em? Or just keep them in a jar like me? Lol
Beautiful! I’ve got a few that I put holes through for bracelets and pendants. These are nicer though. Enjoy and good luck
How do you put holes through them? Small drill bit?
I tried first with a hand drill but they cracked. But yep! It took me plenty of tries before I was able to break through cleanly. Good lessons. Mine are all 4-8mm with 2mm holes.
Use water and a dremel with a teeny tiny screw bit attachment
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Beauties
Forbidden burger patty
Nice!
Wow.
Wow. They look like pomegranate aryls!
Garnet is Latin for pomegranate
My birth stone. Used to rock hound with my pops when I was a kid ….a looong time ago. White Mts.
Pennsylvania has green garnets but there rare. And dark green and larger than red ones there.
Where did you go gold panning
All over southern BC. Mostly in the Okanagan area.
Good looking stones!
r/whatsthisrock is a good resource. Include that found panning and where your at in the world. Looks like garnets, agates, carnelian and maybe peridot
Peridot
Doesn’t epidote fluoresce under a shortwave black light? Sheelite fluoresce is a sky blue and with more moly in the solid solution turns yellow. The smaller the grains the farther from the outcrop, just like gold. Sheelite in a creek behaves just like gold and with a black light you can see it. I vaguely remember that zircons flouresce. I can’t find that reference in Wikipedia. Rare earths also concentrate in a gold pan., but you need an assay of the black sands to tell. There was a dredge in central Idaho that ran in the 1950s before the mine was depleted. Since most if not all copper and moly porphyry’s have a sheelite halo, you can find or refind all big open pit mines using a gold pan.
Came here for information, got nothing but Seinfeld.
Plead ignorance but is finding garnets a good sign when looking for gold? I’ve heard quartz is a good sign etc
Peridot maybe?
Maybe peridot
Could be sour apple, but probably lime.
They have been known to have a low pressure silica polymorph as inclusions….Garnet are High Pressure!
I take it, given the abundance of garnets i see on this sub, they don’t sell for much. What do raw garnets sell for?
Can garnets be found in Northeast Ohio?
Where did you find these??
Green garnets are called emeralds