The finding of a vein of white earth

This white stuff may be diatomaceous earth, raw monatomic elements or Zeolite. My partner and I found this white stuff. He is the first one to find it from above. I took the first picture, then climbed down the hill and took a short video of this white veined lightweight sandy grainy earth. It has been under millions of pounds of lava rock and underneath sand. This could be an adventure of learning or mining. There is alot more bubbly looking lava rocks than basalt on this side of the river, especially in this area. I wonder if there could be lava tubes nearby?
*Please educate me on what we have found, I am open to understand the correct terms, so that I can answers others' answers correct in the long run.*


*All my videos are raw and unedited*

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Education

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• diatomaceaous earth
• white dirt
• philosophers stone
• hiking
• digging
• mining
• documenting
• white sandy grainy
• columbia river
• wallula gap
• hover
• ghost town

[AnarchyBegins]

could simply be limestone? it looks like limestone to me.

[spiritprofessor]

It doesn't react with hydrochloric acid. I did work for a soil company who analyzed farmers soil and one of the lab ladies dropped a couple drops of hydrochloric acid on the substance and it didn't react. It didn't do shit to it! So it's not limestone.

[Garrettwombat]

compacted talc?

[spiritprofessor]

This stuff is more crumbly and loose, nothing like Talc. Talc actually is close to soap stone. I have created a few pot pipes out of soap stone and it created a weightless white powder, similar to baby powder. I believe it's diatomaceous earth, I have two women working on samples but no word yet.

Thanks for the comment Garrett.

Namaste.

[AnarchyBegins]

that's cool. I have no idea what it is tbh, I'm no geologist.

[mintvagoo]

The shinny black rock looks like obsidian, but it wouldn't be crumbly. Common stuff in central Oregon. Especially around Newberry Carter