I took out my scratcher and began to unearth crystals. Nothing spectacular about this pocket except for the fact that someone a few years ago had dug to within inches of my find and stopped because of the downed tree. The previous digger may have found his own pocket, or I might have found an extension of his pocket. In either case I got some nice crystals fairly easily this day.
Nice Haul From Pocket #1 |
It was about noon and I had found a good looking pegmatite with some promising quartz a few weeks ago and decided I had time to follow up on that pegmatite after digging out pocket #1. After about a 20 minute walk up another hill, I dug down removing scree and broken rock till I got down to the self-buried pegmatite. I followed the grayish quartz for a few feet and suddenly it became smoky and a couple faces appeared on both the quartz and feldspar. Then I discovered a small fluorite formed around a smoky.
I knew a pocket was close. As I was expanding my dig with my scratcher tool I found a hole in the pegmatite wall (this was it). I cleaned out the hole as best as I could with my hand and started to pull out smokys from the hole.
Soon I had to enlarge the hole to get out some of the small plates, the job was becoming a little difficult as I was down about 5 feet into the ground. Thunder had been rumbling for at least an hour as a storm built up just to my south. As this storm moved off to the east a group of vultures started circling overhead (kettle) then roosted on a nearby boulder (committee). According to Wikipedia vultures in fight are a kettle, resting or nesting a committee and chowing down on carrion a wake. I knew it couldn't just be a flock of vultures :-)
Those Vultures Mean Business! |
Pocket #2 Bounty: I Noted A Repair On One Plate Will Really Pop The Plate... I'll Add That Later |
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