August
9, 2009 Another trip to Chatham County to dig for quartz.
Today Joe and I got an early start in order
to try and get there before the sun began to turn the place into an
oven. We settled down in the same spot we
were finding
them in the past and began shoveling away. I followed the
yellow
and white clay in order to find the
pockets within the veins. It wasn't long before I
began finding crystals.
The
mixture of white, red, and yellow clay was trippy to look at.
There is no way to describe the feeling of getting
into a pocket of clay that looks like this and pulling out crystals but
it is something I will always remember.
Joe
pulled this one out from where he was digging.
Here
a crystal sits in the pocket clay ready to be extracted.
This
is the same crystal with the clay removed. A double
terminated crystal.
And
here is the same crystal cleaned with a toothbrush and water.
Sometimes
you don't know what you have until you wash it off.
This
is what was under all that clay.
Here's
another piece I found that day. It was cleaned in Super Iron
Out.
This is a double terminated crystal I found in Chatham County with Joe Moylan, the voice and digger on the video. Joe was kind enough to extract it while I taped him.
