We isolating at Haast, found this in the river bed,… fishing… I mean out walking yesterday. What the hell could it be ? Professor Google can only tell me it’s Apatite, but I don’t think so.
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We’re you in Jacobs river? If so it’s aotea. Only found in Jacobs?
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No found in Haast, but thanks for the info.
Definately not aotea (although there is one other spot it is found for the record on the coast) plus beaches,
It looks like that puddingstone found at jacksons bay and the next bay around to the south. a conglomerate, if thats the case,its not a good specimen.
No I don’t think it’s puddingstone. I think it is closer to the kyanite images on google.
Doesn’t matter was an interesting find. Scavenging is still fun.
beautiful rock mate…love it
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@goldsborough can you wet the rock and send another photo. Was it found upgradient of the alpine fault or downgradient?
You will have to explain that sorry.
Was found up river in sight of Haast bridge.
Will get a better pic in daylight.
Could be sodalite, thats found in pivot creek in the margin of an intrusive dyke ( not the hairy angry type)…
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Hi Goldsborough, that rock is a Breccia by definition, and may well be from the Alpine Dyke Swarm. There are various creeks that drain into the Haast that have float from the swarm.
cheers
Thanks for that will look at on “Google”
Is it magnetite I’ve found a similar rock
I think the conclusion by a geolgist we met , he thought it was a brecia
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Hey mate, this is NZ Sodalite, found from a tribute to the mighty haast river, similar in look to Aotea but isn’t. This Sodalite was first recorded back in the late 1800s but only really recently discovered by a man named frank, later named franks slip where its washed into the river, if you look on google you will find geo records of it and more details, Sodalite.
Hey mate, this is NZ Sodalite, found from a tribute to the mighty haast river, similar in look to Aotea but isn’t. This Sodalite was first recorded back in the late 1800s but only really recently discovered by a man named frank, later named franks slip where its washed into the river, if you look on google you will find geo records of it and more details, Sodalite
It wont look like googles sodalite but if you look at lower quality sodalite you will.
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We have also had it identified at the Shantytown open day by West Coast rock club. They identified it as fibrolite and told it was from Pivot creek Haast. Had not even mentionef at that stage where we had found it