Green is the color of New England in the summer. So many shades and hues of this comforting color. Of course finding a bit of the green that lives in my wallet would be nice and that is happening as some of the costume jewelry I am selling on ebay is fetching some of that bank note green.
I took a trip up Adams Hill Rd. to look for the nickel mine. The quarry wasn't too hard to find and held some interest in the form of serpentinite and what looked like a green muscovite known as fuchsite. But I wanted a little more purity and since the temperature was approaching a humid 90 degrees, a walk up the middle of Adams Creek seemed like a good idea. As we ascended the low flowing stream, it jogged to the northwest, away from the quarry, but it doesn't take much chemistry in the earth to create changes. A little bit of nickel in a geologic environment can create the aforementioned green. About a 1//2 mile from the starting point, things got interesting. The rocks were showing significant mineralization and a little poking around revealed the desired color. My experience made me think chrysocolla, but environmental context said otherwise. This green mineral is most likely garnierite. Finding these seams is exciting. There is no real value to the mineral (unless you have megatons of it), but how often do you find something so unique and in the ancient rock of Vermont? After a quick refreshing swim in a deep waterhole, we headed out a little heavier than when we came in.
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