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How and Where to Find Jade Deposits
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Free Newsletter On PROSPECTING & GEOLOGY
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Field Trip to the Colorado and Wyoming Gold and Diamond Fields
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Just added a new blog on jade http://dansjade.blogspot.com/ Nov. 1, 2009

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November 3, 2009

Dan Hausel commented on Dan Hausel's photo 'Pyrope'

Hi Steve, This pyrope as about 2 centimeters across. I have others that are about 12 cm across. Dan

November 3, 2009

Dan Hausel commented on Dan Hausel's photo 'Raw diamond with trigons'

Hi Steve, A great majority of raw diamonds have either noticeable trigons (triangles) or hexagons (6-sided plates). I have additional photos at http://gemhunter.webs.com/apps/photos/ and http://diamondprospector.webs.com/

November 3, 2009

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WEBSITES, BLOGS & Free Publication Downloads on Minerals, Rocks, Gemstones

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http://gemhunter.webs.com/ (How to Find Gemstone Deposits)
http://geologicalconsultant.webs.com/ (Geological Consulting)
http://diamondprospector.webs.com/ (Finding Diamond Deposits)

blogs
http://gemstonehunter.blogspot.com/ (Finding Gems)
http://wygemstones.blogspot.com/ (2009 Wyoming Gem book)
http://WyRuby.blogspot.com (About Rubies)
http://discussionsondiamonds.blogspot.com/ (Major Diamond Province discovered)
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HOW TO FIND AND RECOGNIZE GEMSTONES (http://gemhunter.webs.com)

http://gemhunter.webs.com/

I am currently working on a website that tells how to recognize various gemstones in outcrop and where to look for them. Hope you all have the opportunity to look over this site.

Over the past 30 years, I conducted research and exploration as a consultant in the search for gem, gold, base metal deposits and conducted research on Archean geology as well as kimberlites and lamproites (host rocks for diamonds). I was lucky enough to find several hundred mineral deposits… Continue

Posted on March 25, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

About Me

About me - I'm a geolo… Continue

Posted on February 27, 2009 at 6:43pm — 3 Comments

Giant Iolite Gemstones, Wyoming

Friday, February 27, 2009
DISCOVERY OF WORLD-CLASS COLORED GEMSTONE DEPOSITS (Iolite, Ruby, Sapphire, Kyanite)

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Posted on February 27, 2009 at 6:27pm — 4 Comments

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At 9:51pm on November 3, 2009, Frances A Lindblad said…: Oh! thank you

At 2:42am on July 12, 2009, PebblesMonaVie said…: wow, I would like to see that picture, sounds interesting, just curious, how did you do that?
I think I may know the kind of mud you are talking about, it had just barely rained as I started to head down the mountain back to Superior when the mud started sticking to the tires. I got out and grew 4 inches taller, so I finally put it in 4 low just to get down the mountain safely, I think if it had rained any longer that would have happened also.

At 10:24pm on July 9, 2009, Marion Conger said…: Hi Dan, I think I'd need a week just to read your page and follow all the links. Thanks for sharing so much info. Sounds like you've had a really interesting career, more like a passion. My daughter and I are just getting into "rocks", though I've always been interested. I'm almost afraid to start, could see this become obsessive!
Marion

At 12:08pm on July 9, 2009, Dan Hausel said…: Hi Dena,
I took a photo years ago (can't find it now) of my field vehicle. The only thing visible was the hood and roof. I sunk it almost out of site in the Lewiston area of South Pass and had to walk out to Atlantic City (I think the hike was about 12 miles).

At 12:00pm on July 9, 2009, PebblesMonaVie said…: Hi Dan,
In the Avatar picture, it is just on a steep road going up White Mountain (the road has a spring in it, so I decided to hike the rest of the mountain verses possibly getting stuck) Backing down the moutain was a hair raising experience though. At one point I had about an inch of the tire on the road and a nice steep hillside to fall down if the truck did not remain on the road. The other picture is a little two track by Boars Tusk that was washed out, my front passanger side was bumper deep in the washed out part of the road. I saw the wash out, but just glanced and thought it would be fine....nope. That was fun, but luckily I was able to jack up the other side and learn how to get out of one of those situations. I haven't gone back to that spot, it was a canyon I wanted to explore, but I think next time I will take people with me. Not a place I would want to be stranded and alone. Sorry those are the only pics I have so far, I will get pics of my rocks eventually. I found one the other day that I am curious what it is. Beautiful, it has navy blue, red, yellow that is agate like, then it has what I think is limestone mixed in. It was gorgeous, but I need to get a good picture of it so that those colors will be seen. So I will have pics soon, sorry it is taking me so long.
So in the days where you were out mapping the land, I am guessing you had some interesting terrain to navigate through at times, any interesting storys?

At 7:34pm on March 31, 2009, Frances A Lindblad said…: Thank you for asking about my humble weather worn rock.
I posted eight photos of it on my page. I have looked at a number of things and have narrowed my list to several possibilities. I still have not seen the same combination of minerals as this stone. As I mentioned I found one in 2003 when the City dug up the street for Utility repair. Now this one in the creek bank.

Yes, you might say I am...I also study an Eastern Practice. I am a Reiki Master, attuned to the 4th level...next is teacher but I have no interest in going that far. I use the I Ching for guidance on occasion. (Not the organic type though, more rnr)

I liked the other sites you suggested very much. The photos were absolutely amazing. The oil field pics looked just like what I thought they would. I went there via Google Earth after you first mentioned them. Once I found Riverton, I found all the things you mentioned in your bio story. Then I went to Northern Ontario and looked around there.

The rock there is completely different there...you can really see swirly flow like patterns....some have interesting characteristics you don't notice unless you're me.

Thank you again for asking.....Inga

At 12:52pm on March 26, 2009, Frances A Lindblad said…: WOW! What a treat. The photos at Gem Hunter of the opals around the oil field.....IT IS utterly amazing. Just like my *diamonds*, someone working here surely noticed. I know I would have been looking down at the ground...my pockets not deep enough.

If "it" sparkles, glints, gleams or is an unusual colour and I notice it...I home in on it. That's why I am here and there, trying to name the rocks and pebbles I have found in my humble travels. Some of my favourite finds I found in the most unlikely places.

My friends don't share my rock hounding interests. A stone is a rock is a pebble to them. They think I'm crazy always scuffing in the dirt. A "stone" need not be precious. An interesting form or weathering will get me to pick it up. Things I am always looking for...stones and pebbles with natural holes in them...heart shaped stones ~ stones which have naturally broken into a valentine heart shape....fossils ~ there's a family connection...red stones and pebbles ~ I pick them up on walks with my dog, Mercury, and put them in my garden. If I lived in Wyoming my garden would be paved in opal! Be still my heart of stone! &:^D Stones with lines in them ~ that's what I was looking for the day I found the *diamonds*.

My parents were fishing and I was to play quietly a little down stream from them. I was looking at stones at the edge of the water, eliminating each because of no line. There was coarse gritty sand below the stones and I scooped it into my beach sieve and ran water through it. I can remember it so clearly...in the grit in the sieve were these two shiny glassy *diamonds*. They didn't look like beach glass, or quartz and the shape of one was new to my little kid brain. I put them in my pocket and should have left them there.

At Gem Hunter I zoomed a pic of natural diamonds. It dazzled me and only fortified my belief in my childhood find.

I got a chuckle at your disbelief at Bureaucrats disinterest. I will use some of the Iolite if I can help. You have to create a market for it. Cooured stones a novel right now. Yes diamonds will always be the *dazzler* but there are people who like to have all types of gem jewellery. Big business need not be the only way to get this gem to the public. Fine Artist's like myself, Entrepeneurs of Art are always looking for some thing unique to give an edge to their works. Gems from the World's largest source is a great place to start.

I found a rock the other day that is proving difficult to name. I have some new leads to check out but so far every thing doesn't have the right colours. My rock is a drab green limestone (I think), triangular in shape. The longest edge 7 cm and it is 3.5 cm to 4.2 cm thick, (or 2 3/4" and it is 1" to 1 1/4"). The smallest face has white and orange-pink crystals, they are worn and don't show and crystal shape. I think the limestone is a matrix. This rock is also magnetic on one side. It weighs 219.8g. I have found another of these 5 years ago and am trying to remember where I put it. The magnet thing surprised me. One possibility....Cobaltite but I don't think mine is "pink" enough.

At 11:12pm on March 25, 2009, Frances A Lindblad said…: Good Evening Dan...I checked out the Fipke reference. I have seen full glossy page adverts for Ekati Diamonds in High End Jewellery magazines. Hmmmm...it would have been great to have been able to keep those stones. They may have changed my life! That was 1966. I used Google Earth and went for a quick visit to northern Ontario. It is still far enough north to remain (somewhat) untouched. It brought back so many memories. It would be great to go back and camp there. You know I would be looking to satisfy my curiosity.

At 12:35pm on March 22, 2009, Frances A Lindblad said…: That sounds like the dream job! I used the Google Earth program to go look at Wyoming. The whole area has the *glow* of opal. It is smack dab in the middle of the area of an ancient ocean, so I am not surprised you are finding such huge deposits. You said "hundreds of discoveries", that's boggling!
I will check out the new links you added to your note.
I design jewellery, thus my interest in gems and minerals. I would like to produce my own cabs and gems, so I know nothing is "conflict". I also want stones indigenous to Canada. Then there's the concept of making the ordinary "precious".
To me a gem is more than something pretty to *dazzle* on your finger. It is a byproduct of the state of Mother Earth at some point in time....a long long long time ago. I don't think people think about the time and energy that goes into the formation of these things.
I showed the Iolite boulder picture to my son and his jaw just dropped!
I must say, you rock hound on a very large level.

At 1:58am on March 21, 2009, Frances A Lindblad said…: ~ I can hardly get my head around 40,000 carats! It makes you wonder if the workmen took home any "pretty rocks" for the garden?
It must give you a *rush* when you realize what you have discovered.
I look forward to your books also..there is more than one?
This photo is just awesome! And inspiring!
Now I just need to find something like that here in Ontario, Canada.