COBALTOAN - DOLOMITESIntersting Driftwoon photos - eh.
What one sees in colorations -
is highly dependent upon - what computer you have, what pixalation, what setting you have on your computer for coloration - each of these factors - will determine what colors you see -
I've looked at the purple dolo exposed showing - 10 different ways...lol
sometimes i see purple blsh hues - sometimes only dark grey - ( oxidation )
Yet... if i alter my height...
while viewing the photo suddenly hues of purples show up in the dark grey - at base of the exposed range - heck, i've tried every angle.. .walked away made a coffee and when i came back... i easily saw the - purple hues amongst the dark greys - blushing hues of faint purple or faint pink - starring or analyzing to olong - the dark grey over powers, purples go unseen.
Intersting it is...
to see the booking of sediment layers stacked side by side.
In fact the purple dolo area is opposite of the booking to that of the western and eastern depoists.
Could the purple dolo zone be the " tail " of the western deposit - broke away ?
So... i've researched many times over the weeks...
what causes dolomite or magnesium to turn, purple or pink ?
There is the typical ansers of... dolomite just turns this color, or comes this way, or, calcium
influences the changing of color.
I don't buy it.
lol
With what i've researched -
other minerals present will show themselves as different colors.
What i do think is...
Mining industry for years have missed the - ree - with in the dolos.
Let's just say... there's alot of expensive cement out there now - wink.
Calcium = White.
Magnesium = white or grey.
Period,
Dolomites = that are yellow or brown = Iron staining.
There just so many papers and citations and resarch now that i've come across that
are just cluing into the - ree - with in dolomites.
While some miners -
handful - new for sometime about the ree's with in - dolomites.
Where i see a fatal flaw ?
1 - removing the impurities prior to - fire assaying and not studying the impurities..
2- fire assaying - dolos or mangesium when... cobalt has very close realtions to Mg.
3- potential bonding and alloying the two together.
Like i mentioned in a former post - others came up with a lab formula that consisted of,
magnesium and a few other minerals like aluminum which acted almost the same as, cobalt.
Here's another paper that descibes " doping " Magnesium with cobalt.
And there it is- if - Mg + Co - they were not closely related such would never work.
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/chem.202002817
An article such as this...
Places my mind in the frame of - could this format of doping Mg with Co stretch the supply of cobalt so as - the effects of cobalt and magnesium - takes hte presure off of - cobalt ?
I would say, if ever... magnesium would be a sensation over night.
lol
LET'S HAVE A LOOK AT - COBALT BEARING DOLOMITE - ( Mindats - terminology ) lol
SHOULD READ - DOLOMITE BEARING COBALT.
Looks like Dolomite is the host and cobalt the leach - feeding off it and aswell, leaching it's color in the dolomite.
3 - PHOTOS
https://www.mindat.org/min-1105.html
PHOTO #1
I'm seeing purple crystals of - cobalt.
Cobalt staining the dolomite.
Also a small fleck of - green.
What's going on ?
Is hte dolomite purple pink - or did something else make it purple pink ?
wink.
PHOTO #2
Ruby red cobalt staing white dolomite.
One would think it would turn a wine purple - but... it altered the dolomite to = pink.
There's also yellowish grene flecks too in one of the cobalt crystals.
PHOTO #3
Pink colbat crystals bleeding or recrytalizing colors into the dolomite.
I think i see a few green grene specs too.
What was learned ?
Another mineral influenced color change.
So... something to discuss,
No one knows what else there is in our dolomites or magnesite,.
Beeter assaying is needed and more focus on the ( ugly ores )
It's perfectly fine to seek out a - pure high grade deposit -
but when there's a chance of - ree's - that could be present - it;s best to look at all
ore factions to know for certain.
Just look at the other miners around the world mining dolos and pulling out - ree's.
Or... other juniors even in B.C. not too far away, drilling TREO ree's in what type of ore body ?
DOLOMITES.
In Driftwoods deposit, junior reports have mentioned - pinks, purples, greens, yellows.
Imagine if someone - rented an XRF for the day... .lol
If only i were closer to Brisco - oh, hello.
Cheers.....