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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seanc731mo ago

My buddy found quartz veins near a fault line once.

jordan_hill1mo ago

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

laura6671mo ago

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