PSA: My old geology professor's trick for finding garnets in Vermont schist actually worked.

I was out near Rutland last fall, just hitting schist with my hammer and not seeing much. He always said to look for the specific rusty orange stains on the rock face, not just the dark spots. Found a pocket with three decent almandine crystals after twenty minutes. Anyone know other field signs for mineral pockets in metamorphic rock?

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seanc7313d ago

My buddy found quartz veins near a fault line once.

jordan_hill13d agoTop Commenter

Sounds like a cool find. Fault lines can push up some wild stuff.

laura66713d ago

Wow @seanc73, that seems to happen a lot around here!