February-March 2022 Fossicking Trip: Stone of the Day #18, Gemstone Beach Green “Finger”

I am being much more selective during my fossicks on Gemstone Beach now as this was my ninth visit there this trip. I have accumulated quite a few finds to take home with me back to Whanganui – that trip north starts in three days’ time. I collected about 80 to 90 stones today, some of them quite small, which is less than half of what I have tended to collect in previous days. Today’s Stone of the Day is another Gemstone Beach green – it looks kind of like argillite, especially in colour, but its structure close-up looks more like quartzite:

Stone of the Day #18

The stone is 5 cms long and is (roughly) finger-shaped:

Other side of Stone #18.

On my way back to the carpark this afternoon, a woman who was also fossicking generously gave me a handful of the hydrogrossular garnets she had found – she was doing much better at it than I!

Among this handful of hydrogrossular garnets are the half-dozen I was gifted by a fellow fossicker.

People looking for stones in front of the carpark at Gemstone Beach. The sweeping curve of the Te Waewae Bay coast is apparent.

Six of my other finds today:

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