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| Masses of green, soft chlorite on rocks |
I promised you a rapport a week ago but I just didn`t have time for this post. With a small delay- here it is.
The locality we are talking about is on one of the beaches near Rosscarbery. We went there to look for hematite only, and at first we couldn`t find it at all. Instead, we came across massive amounts of chlorite (got a hint that could be clinochlorite, but test would have to been made to confirm this)
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| we caught high tide and couldn`t go any further |
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| chlorite on rocks |
We found pieces of shiny mica-like stuff and thought it would be mica. After scratch test with "raw" porcelain (the botton of a mug) it actually turned out to be hematite! Yeeey!
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| a mixture of hematite, chlorite, quartz and pink/orange quartz (?) |
Klaudia cleaned one quartz pocket (another locality in Roscarberry) and managed to take out a nice crystal
Chlorite piece taken home:
It`s green, even though it doesn`t really look green ;)
Overall, it was a very nice trip!
PS We have planned a trip to the Mourne Mts with a fellow-collector from Dublin, we`ll be looking for smoky quartz, aquamarine, topaz and many other in granite :) Can`t wait!!!!!!
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