Scott, I have never seen that one before.  That one is really a stunning piece, I probably would have had a fun time cleaning that one.

Largest completely intact Quartz crystal I’ve ever seen in wake county, House creek surface find 6/10/20

Wow! What an incredible find! Well done and thanks for sharing!

Good for you, WildReport. Glad to hear you're going to NCSU. Best school in the Triangle!
Yes, it would be good for you to get out with someone that can show you how to look for fissures, but it's not that easy to arrange and it sounds like you're doing about as well as any of us. Every once in a while a hot-spot will emerge, but the only way you find it is by months of looking and checking of sites. 90% of the time you don't find anything, but if you aren't out there looking that 90% you won't ever see or find the 10%. If it was easy everybody'd be doing it. 
  Here's one I found 2 Sundays ago. I was digging in a small fissure about 2" wide. There were some faces on the outer edges of the quartz but it wasn't crystallizing into the fissure. There were several other fissures within a foot or two on either side of this fissure and there was one little clear quartz fissure running about 3 or 4 inches to the left of the one I was digging on. I could see faces shining at me from the edge of the fissure but the fissure was less than one half inch wide, so I didn't bother digging on it because I figured any crystals would be so small they wouldn't be worth keeping anyway.
But after giving up on the one I was digging and before moving on I decided to give that little fissure a stab, and low and behold this thing fell out. So basically that whole little fissure 'popped' into this crystal in that one section. Very lucky find but also one that I learned something from.

Thanks, Scott. You saw how that thing fell out of there. Very lucky.

And I'll tell you, the one mineral I never tire of looking for in Wake County is the wonderfully intricate Reticulated Rutile on Quartz.
Awesome range of colors from black to gold, and red and orange. But it is hard to find, especially 'on' a nice quartz crystal.
One of the nicest thing about these specimens is that they were all recently found!

Now finding all that on a perfect crystal is the trick.
First two pics are of one "crystal" with rutile that I found. The rest of the pics are too many of a weird clump of quartz with possibly a Muzo habit terminating point on it.

Joe and I found amethyst this past Sunday.  It is such an elusive crystal here in Wake County that any sign of purple really gets the heart rate up for us. Unfortunately, these were only surface finds on top of disturbed earth. Even after combing the area and digging and scraping the area where it was found, no more were recovered. We'll have to wait for more work to get done at this site with hopes that more amethyst and their source is revealed.

Here is some cool looking rutile on amethyst found in Wake Forest, NC.