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Post by orrum on May 30, 2013 12:32:35 GMT -5
My trip. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2013 13:40:05 GMT -5
That's great. Are you going to polish it, or keep it as a specimen?
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Post by orrum on May 30, 2013 18:26:28 GMT -5
Hello again, didna have time to write b4. So its $20 for the day and keep all u want that u find. The mine shaft is underwater now so you prowl the mine dump piles that get stirred up by machine every so often. We got there Sat morn about 11am and left about 3 pm. My girlfriend n I found about a dozen pieces with emerald in it, some larger than the pic and some had garnets with the emerald. The guy at the tourist shop uses a Genie and cabs tge pieces, the milk white quartz with tourmaline crystals and brilliant green emerald is a awesome cab!!!!! You have to break rocks to find them. Find a rock with mica schist on it like a cap and also white quartz with lil tourmaline crystals and crack it open. Problem is you might of just busted a baseball size piece of rough n2 lil pieces and it has emeralds in it. If u had known u could of slabbed it and got a much nicer job. Course I broke a bunch of rocks! LOL Also got a lot.of pieces with garnet and tormaline and yellow beryl and white quartz matrix. Yellow beryl must not be recognized by folks cause I quit keeping it after a while. Also some smoky quartz and some of it has moonstone. Got one piece of smoky thats looks like there is a piece of facet grade in it the size of a marble. some emerald is distinct crystals attached to matrix and is sticking out, got one like that as big around as well its over a eighth of a inch wide, way over. Cant wait to cab and slab this stuff! Not n2 specimens but might trade the ones with distinct crystals for slabs of stuff I like. It was a blast!
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Post by paulshiroma on May 30, 2013 21:55:21 GMT -5
Very nice, sounds like you had a great time. Got additional pics of your finds? Would love to see them.
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Post by orrum on May 31, 2013 6:49:32 GMT -5
Will post more pics today if I can figure out how to do a "reply" with a pic, think I can only do one pic per reply. Gotta take the rough outside for good pics.
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