"I'm thinking about trying to find some rhodonite around the Lake Cavanaugh area...I know Bob knows where I am talking about, but I don't think I'll find it with out a little more help than his directions in his book. I'm posting this, then looking at satellite images to pin point the two lakes he references...any help would be nice. i've been meaning to do this for a while. When aaron and i went out halloween, i found a piece of something eroded from the glacial till accross the rosd from pilchuck at the confluence of bear that had little plebs of pink...i've also found a pebble of solid Rhodonite with the black on Deer Creek (Oso).

~Zeke"

"Gee, trash talk about my fine line of books, LOL. Too bad GPS & Google Earth were not available when I wrote them. The little lakes are only a mile from Split Rock, and adjacent to a logging road, can't be that many possibilities. The veins in the roadcut were small, you'd likely have to do some digging to find again 17 years later. As long as you're digging, a guy could probably find more at the old Mt. Higgins locality, where the quality was better. Pretty stuff.
Bob"

"Bob, The only reason I find any sites you list is by cursing your name to the heavens...then a golden light would shine down from the firmiment and point the way....actually i've always managed to find what you are talking about...but the cursing really happens too.

~zeke"

"here's some advice a buddy sent me...what do you think?

"......I have a rhodonite claim within several hundred feet of one of my vesuvianite claims...this rhodo is also within a half mile of 3 other vesuvianite outcroppings......the easiest way to find where your rhodo is.....is state mineralogy reports......Manganese is usually found with rhodo in the same deposits......manganese is or was considered a strategic mineral for the past war efforts......so most states give very specific locations for like chrome and manganese......."






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