After
nearly a full week of poor weather I set off again for the spot at Lake George
that I’ve been working with my digging partner Bob. We have been having a bit
of luck in this area of the claim, but we’ve found nothing extraordinary. I
started to work a small seam that drifted off a massive pegmatite and found a
few 1” crystals but none of them were noteworthy. After finishing that spot I
checked in on Bob to see how he was doing. Bob found a highly mineralized pegmatite
with broken crystals below the surface at only inches to as much as 3 feet
underground. Some of the smoky quartz plates Bob found would have 3 or 4 major
crystals (6”) on them but all would be broken off. Bob did find a few collectible
solo crystals. We both remarked about what could have been for this pocket had
it not been busted up by nature long ago. I settled down near Bob on what was
part of a general pegmatite structure running up the hill. I found a few small
plates of smokys and microcline as well as some goethite. It seem that all the
crystal producing plates were next to decaying tree roots. Evidently the tree
sent its roots in vugs or seams within the pegmatite that produced the
crystals. I’ve often found tree roots in conjunction with crystals at Lake
George. Bob also found some goethite sprays which seem to be dispersed higgledy-piggledy
within the scree at this site(always wanted to use higgledy-piggledy) These
goethite sprays will be a nice addition to Bob’s collection. Unfortunately most
of the larger quartz material was damaged by nature.
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