i have been there a couple times with the local club. always a great place to explore. variety of colors is very high. it's an active quarry so new material is always being turned up. you can make some amazing polished spheroids out of random chunks just using ordinary tools. also, serpentine is not a good 'yard rock' because it degrades fairly quickly when exposed to the elements. pieces left outside will eventually break apart and turn to powder.
I appreciate the information. I will probably save the yard rock from a slow and agonizing death. lol. It will have a brighter future now😁 Definitely can’t wait to go back again.
The druzy stuff is chalcedony...a form of quartz that will withstand some aggressive cleaning. The fibrous dark green serpentine is picrolite...that one piece you have is HUGE!
The orangish/brown coloring......can you place the material in iron out or clr to remove that? I have some serpentine but some of my pieces have a little of this on it and I think it would look so much better w/o that staining
Is the orange mineral you're seeing on the surface limonite staining? And the white mineral on the surface of many of the stones looks like common opal to me. But looks like and being are often not the same. 😊
Oh wow! I wasn’t aware of the full history of the mine, farm and now golf course. What was the farms name? I hate seeing farmland lost. That saddens me so much. Hopefully it wasn’t lost on bad terms. But at least they maintained the beautiful area there.
@@RockhoundingwithJoe-rp8qu , Greenbrier Farm was the metal name tage on frt of house. We found hundreds and hundreds of Indian arrowheads in the fields .
