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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #270 - Jul 22^nd, 2022 at 3:50pm	Print Post
	Oh is THAT what it looks like! Much better than looking through a loupe. Awesome picture! Thanks!


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #271 - Feb 22^nd, 2023 at 2:58pm	Print Post
	Here's a nice grouping of tessin's I found with Joe this past weekend. The Tessin Trio.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #272 - Apr 18^th, 2023 at 7:56pm	Print Post
	Wake County smoky and amethyst scepters.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #273 - Apr 25^th, 2023 at 11:26pm	Print Post
	More from Wilders Grove

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #274 - Apr 26^th, 2023 at 10:47pm	Print Post
	As usual, Scott, I can't see what my own specimens look like until I see your pictures. Much better than in person! Here's a good example. The first two pictures in this last group of yours are of a flat surface covered with triangular terminations. I found a piece like that but can't see it as well as in your pics! Thank You!

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #275 - Apr 26^th, 2023 at 10:53pm	Print Post
	Now, Scott, your last picture. I have a lot of cleaning left to do on the cluster. And it will probably fall apart in the process, but I'm thinking the Citrine color is more than skin deep.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #276 - Apr 28^th, 2023 at 10:40am	Print Post
	Nice finds Joe. It's interesting how there were I believe at least three separate growing events. The first generation was the clear normal habit druzy or needle quartz crystals, the second was amethyst on top of that, and the last generation was the lustrous smoky "eggs" as we've been calling them. Although some of the eggs have amethyst too but are rarer.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #277 - Apr 28^th, 2023 at 9:12pm	Print Post
	Yes, and the few quality amethyst crystals I have are under .25" Yep, you were right, that cluster fooled me. I really thought more of the "citrine" color was thru and thru, but it didn't take long for it to disappear in Iron Out. I will have to re-bathe some of the pieces in IO. Some of that stain may be included. Maybe enough to even call it Citrine! Quick Pics. Pic 1 is the cluster after being cleaned in Iron Out, with the one section that fell off during cleaning sitting in front. Pic 3 is of the same small pieces pictured before Iron Out and Pic 4 is of a few more pieces after initial cleaning in IO. All of those will have to have another bath in IO to see what color remains.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #278 - Apr 28^th, 2023 at 9:19pm	Print Post
	These pics are just to show how hard we are working to get through this stuff! Pic 1 is of the veins we're laboriously and diligently digging thru. One piece on the left has not been cleaned and the others have beem. Pic 2 is of a couple pieces I'm going to leave natural so I don't ruin ALL of my Citrine! It's pretty rare and getting rarer.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #279 - May 3^rd, 2023 at 9:42pm	Print Post
	More from Wilders Grove

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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 455 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #280 - May 4^th, 2023 at 5:31pm	Print Post
	I think I need a dribble bib...


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #281 - Jul 10^th, 2023 at 7:32pm	Print Post
	Found this little 67.5 lb. cluster already dug up and sitting in a pile of dirt at a new spot we were checking out. Not badly damaged and has a few green Chlorite Phantoms. About 300 yards from the car...

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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 455 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #282 - Jul 11^th, 2023 at 10:03pm	Print Post
	I don't know Joe.. seems kind of small. You might need to throw it back & let it grow some more. Seriously, looks nice. Maybe someone decided it wasn't worth the hernia to pick it up, and left it for another to deal with. Or they found a bigger one.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4197 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #283 - Jul 12^th, 2023 at 9:22am	Print Post
	I know, there were several other smaller clusters found and it's hard to imagine the backhoe operator didn't see these clumps of crystals he was digging up? I'd like to talk to him. My hip bones are still sore from the walk out with it but I'm going to plant it in the backyard and see if it sprouts!


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Wake County Reply #284 - Oct 1^st, 2023 at 4:33pm	Print Post
	Here's some pictures of a few nice crystals I found this past weekend. Hematite needles were present as well.
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