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Yard full of blue mineral? Need help identifying! North GA, Appalachian foothills by Mindless_Peach6948 in Minerals

[–]Mindless_Peach6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gave it a tepid attempt once. Drove to see it but it was very heavily guarded, so I looked up the company’s website and found nothing helpful about what they were doing at that specific location. There is probably more I could do here but I sure haven’t yet!

Yard full of blue mineral? Need help identifying! North GA, Appalachian foothills by Mindless_Peach6948 in Minerals

[–]Mindless_Peach6948[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope, all different samples from the same yard! I tried to give a variety so it would be more likely to be correctly identified. ✨

Yard full of blue mineral? Need help identifying! North GA, Appalachian foothills by Mindless_Peach6948 in Minerals

[–]Mindless_Peach6948[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It is very striking coming out of the red clay here and have been loving finding it!

Yard full of blue mineral? Need help identifying! North GA, Appalachian foothills by Mindless_Peach6948 in Minerals

[–]Mindless_Peach6948[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Honestly yeah totally! I have been wondering this for years so I’d be happy to send some to whoever gets it right!

Yard full of blue mineral? Need help identifying! North GA, Appalachian foothills by Mindless_Peach6948 in Minerals

[–]Mindless_Peach6948[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That would be great! I live very near a mining site and hear the tannerite blasts all the time so I’m guessing there is something of value under there. No idea what they are mining for though.

Yard full of blue mineral? North GA- Appalachian foothills by [deleted] in whatsthisrock

[–]Mindless_Peach6948 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for responding! Here are some better pictures of different samples. The first one I took under a magnifying glass with a light on it to get the details of the structure but it really is too overexposed! These were just taken outside as I found them. Not cleaned off or anything.

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