Exploring New Ground

[Ezdiggin]

Last weekend I had a free Saturday to do anything. I decided to try exploring ground that didn't have any mines nearby or info written about it. In the past I've spent a whole day exploring with out finding a thing, but that's just part of it. With gas prices so high I stayed close to home in Transylvania county. I really wanted to go to the Ray mine or somewhere on the Gal. So I left early in the morning to find cool temps. and beautiful sunny skies. There were 4 areas I wanted to look over and of course the terrain was real steep. After about 4-5 hours of finding absolutely nothing I almost called it a day. I decided to explore the final spot i had picked out and was surprised to find milky quartz laying around everywhere. I was searching for quartz crystals, but I mostly found Limonite pseudomorphs instead. By the time I actually started finding keepers it was getting close to 4pm. That was my turn around time.
So I didn't really get to search the area very well, at least next time I can go straight there.


Small quartz crystals, pseudo at bottom


Largest pseudo, two crystals


Largest pseudo, two crystals


cleaned up quartz


best pseudos cleaned


matrix piece

[rockshine]

Is that a wheatback psuedo penny, before it morphed into a practically worthless copperclad zinc slug? Nice finds. With all those goodies, therre's bound to be more. Keep a diggin

[arappaho]

Yep, Ez, looks like you're on to something. Keep on checking it out.
Thanks for the pics,
Joe

[tracey]

Spring is in the air!! Rockhounds scouting everywhere!
Neat finds, cubes from nature are so cool.

[Barrett]

Pretty sweet. Keep on that spot for sure. Some nice specs you got there