Diggin into pegmatite II.

[wilfndgold]

Since those homeless people are still camped out near my spot that I was working on. Im going to go check out these spots tomorrow as you can see lots of potential I dont see many signs that anyones ever been diggin around out there. I,ll take pictures and post them when I get back.

 

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[rodoconnor]

Good luck man. The washes in the center of the photos do luck promising

 

[wilfndgold]

I found so much pegmatite out there today it was overwhelming I saw some Mica books 2 inches thick easy, But no Lapidolite There was Black Tourmaline up the ying yang! It was everywhere And quite a bit of Almandine Garnets to. I didnt even do any real digging I was just walking along these long veins and looking at what was on the surface, Lots of pink felspar. I was only out there for maybe 2 hours I should of taken a bucket so by the time I got hungry and left my pockets were so full I had to use one hand to hold my pants up! Serious Lol. If anyone wants to go out there and help me look for colored Tourmaline I could use the extra eyes I dont know if theres anything but Black Tourmaline, But you never know. And I found some low quality small piece of yellow Baryl. Lots of Quarts but didnt see any terminated crystals so I dont know. There was a lot of black and gold Mica also.

 

[wilfndgold]

Heres some Quartz.

 

[wilfndgold]

 

[wilfndgold]

Heres some big Mica I found out there.

 

[rodoconnor]

WFG, looks like your new spot will keep you busy for a little while. Wat to go buddy !

 

[yakker]

Wow! You got a cool spot to hunt- good luck with it all. Wish I were closer, I'd love to add extra eyes

 

[wilfndgold]

Today I was only able to get out there for not even an hour then the sun started goin down, But I got a few pics I circled in red a lot of the harder to notice peg on the tips of all the hills from what i can see if you were to dig down with some heavy equipment on those hills were the peg is visable on the tips of them underneath the dirt would probably reveal that the entire hill is mostlikely pegmatite below my feet, And thats a lot of peg it,s just a theory but thats the way it feels to me. Im just hoping to stumble on a spot were erosion/siesmic activity has revealed crystals from a pocket type of thing. Its a long shot but still.

 

[DDancer]

Looks to be you've got some good prospects going. Nice work.

 

[wilfndgold]

Im going out there again today to check out this area It looks really crazy as you can see by all the little stringers. Ill post pic's later.

 

[wilfndgold]

Peg.

OK this is some of what I found out there yesterday I found A spot with a lot of Garnets I named it the Garnet patch I couldnt get many pics my batteries were goin dead. Theers still a lot of material to check out. The Garnets are low quality there was a couple that had good shape that were the size of a nickle though.

 

[rodoconnor]

WFG, I have no doubt you are about to get into something very nice , very soon. Good Luck Rod

 

[wilfndgold]

K well here's how thick the Mica ran in one of the better spots

 

[wilfndgold]

Oh yeah I thought this was kinda different. Ive never seen this stuff before at the end of one of the pegmatite veins it came to a stop and disapeared, At the end there was this darker striped material was'nt peg at all thought it was kinda wierd what do you guys think of it?

 

[wilfndgold]

must have cooled really fast?

Well today it was just more of the same (Sigh...) Don't a couple of those photos look like It cooled real face A lot of those crystals are really small.

 

[BurntBear]

Awesome photos! That's a really cool spot you're at. I have a feeling you're pretty close to some amazing mineral specimens!

 

[wilfndgold]

Well its gonna be like 100 to 107 out here today so theres not much time for diggin It,s 6 am rite now so Im gonna do some actual digging were all those garnets were. Again I,ll post pic,s when I get back.

 

[wilfndgold]

Freakin Hot!

Really hot already, To hot for this kid to be hicking up and down those hills. Well the first thing I saw when I pulled outa my driveway was this big balloon. Looked awesome. Poked around a little bit found garnets, lots and lots of mica, And beautiful Pink Quartz. Needless to say I didnt last long sweat goin in my eyes what not. Only got 3 pics:

 

[meMiner]

What can be done with the mica?

What has worked for me around areas with books of mica is to hit the nearby rock with a small hammer and hope to hear a hollow sound. That has been some of my best spots for crystals, especially in a spot with a color change.