Message #108955

[mirkaba]

Ok I had to think on it a bit. There is a Quartzite that is outcropped seemingly sporadically around Western Montana called Flathead Quartzite. I worked in a Quarry where it was mined over by Wolf Creek and found a deposit near Rogers Pass. There are red, black, blue and white layers in the deposit. It is not a typical Quartzite but composed of lithified, bedded,  rounded, sand to pea sized gravel, almost a pudding stone in places. There is a lot of Hematite in it. I have been meaning to cut some of it but have not been back to either of the deposits for a while. Maybe this is it?