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| Highlight of this month was some moose at Lake George, not crystals |
The month of July was warm. I took 2 weeks off rock hounding as it was just too hot. I was following some fairly good colored amazonite crystals in a pegmatite seam that ran up the hill. I followed float along the seam until I got to an old dig. Nothing about the old dig looked right to me. There was just not enough host rock to support a pocket. As soon as I dug above the old pocket the float disappeared. I backed up my digging and found little. Tried again above the pocket and refound the seam of small pieces of amazonite about 3 feet down. I followed this seam for about 15 feet until it finally petered out with little to show for my efforts. Teaser pieces kept me looking, but finally sanity prevailed, and I decided to look elsewhere. I always spend more effort when I am following better colored amazonite, probably spent more time here than I should have. I meandered back to an area where I found some goethite in a prior year. I spent much of the month of August digging quartz from that spot and found a few interesting specimens (see next post).
See below for picture of the July dig. It is hard for me to quit on float amazonite when the color is so blue.
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| No pocket, just single crystals |
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