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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2972 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Guilford County Aug 28^th, 2011 at 10:39pm	Print Post
	Thanks to Joe's crafty satellite surveillance scouting strategy, a patch of exposed dirt lured him to this spot.� We indeed found crystals here.� But they were probably the most weathered looking crystals we had ever found.
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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4206 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Guilford County, NC Reply #1 - Aug 28^th, 2011 at 10:55pm	Print Post
	Looks Egyptian.


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2972 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Guilford County, NC Reply #2 - Aug 29^th, 2011 at 9:51am	Print Post
	A candle burning in the background created the false sunset/sunrise over the crystal.

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BW YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 8 Joined: Jun 29^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Guilford County Reply #3 - Jun 30^th, 2013 at 5:18pm	Print Post
	south of Greensboro off holden road are old gold mines near summer school area back in the 1960's u could go anywhere to look for rocks and in those area were a lot of field that had quartz crystals in them the farmer would lay them to the side of fields all u had to is collect them, came in all sizes, all that is gone today. BW


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FireOnTheMountain Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 139 Joined: Mar 26^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: Guilford County Reply #4 - Sep 27^th, 2014 at 9:38pm	Print Post
	Found this south of Greensboro today. It was laying right on top in an old roadbed. It's kind of redish in color (I'm assuming some sort of iron staining maybe?).� Half of it is covered in this frosty looking opaque coating. The other half you can see into the crystal. It's about 2 1/2 inches long.


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dirtslanger Junior Member Offline Posts: 70 Location: Lookout Mountain, GA Joined: Jun 10^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Guilford County Reply #5 - Sep 28^th, 2014 at 11:01am	Print Post
	Wow great find FOTM! Gorgeous!


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FireOnTheMountain Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 139 Joined: Mar 26^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: Guilford County Reply #6 - Sep 28^th, 2014 at 11:10pm	Print Post
	Thanks! I was pretty surprised to find it. Everything else I've found while digging at this spot has been relatively small so far, so this was a nice surprise sitting right on top!


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L82Play Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 195 Joined: Jul 10^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Guilford County Reply #7 - Sep 29^th, 2014 at 10:05am	Print Post
	Good find - finding surface rocks are like getting a gift from Mother Nature herself! cheers, r

	sung to the tune of 'Green Acres' Erosion is the thing for me I just don't like to dig - you see Picking rocks up right off the ground is good enough for this lucky old rockhound
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Collin Senior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 253 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Guilford County Reply #8 - Nov 11^th, 2014 at 11:08am	Print Post
	A few ammy's from a day out in Guilford County with Laurie this past weekend.� Still need to clean some of them up. These are both thumbnail box size

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4206 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Guilford County Reply #9 - Nov 12^th, 2014 at 10:50pm	Print Post
	Very pretty, Collin. Nice finds and thanks for the pics. Nice thing about amethyst is it doesn't matter how big or small they are, they're always nice to find!


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