Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011
We entered and descended upon the Burgin Mine outside
of Norwood, in Stanley Co., NC, for the first time.

The Fall MAGMA Glendon Dig had been the day before, and
after a great relaxing get together and dinner hosted by Laurie
Adams, we followed his lead Sunday morning and picked up
a few more folk at the Bojangles in town on the way to the
site. It was another perfectly comfortable overcast morning
without much chance of rain. Great digging weather!

Our initial view of the site and sign-in, and it didn't take
long for everyone to spread out and get down to business.

Everyone is pretty much going Vug-Crazy!

Tracey and I thought trying to move a couple of quartz
"baby-boulders" because we were sure there was something
behind them was a good idea.

Jesse getting more advice on how to get to that vug he's
working on and what they are looking at.

Great report!!  The photos are great.

Did you see any clusters?  Anything more than just this one?  Bigger?  smaller?  How did the overall site look for quartz?  Thanks fore the pics guys.  Looks real nice!!

Yep, and the next thing you know, we're about the last
to leave. Looks like all Scott needs is a pillow.

Joe, My son David and I were there too.  We spent most of the day digging between the bigger boulder on th side of the hill and cracking and prying around a few vugs.  Later in the day we got out the sledge hammer and found a few nice faces and poind inside a boulder.  Great day to dig in the dirt and hit things with hammers!

Great pictures!

Thanks, John.

Sorry we missed you, Grampa. Or did we?
There were three earlybirds there when we arrived, and I
believe one of them was a David. We spoke briefly and if I
remember right he said they were from the Roanoke club.
But I know how it is; When you're there to Dig, that's what
you do.
The Burgin is a great place to work on your digging skills.
If you want to work on your "Finding" skills, you may want
to try someplace else.
Seriously tho, I have fallen in love with some of the little
completely healed floaters found in the pockets there.
There were easily a hundred in that one pocket I found that
day, but most of them will end up in the Grab Bags for the
club show. But, there were about a dozen that I will keep
and that I think are worth the effort digging for. Heck, it's
more work at home cleaning them all up than the digging!

Oh well, Glad to hear you were there and maybe we'll be
digging next to you next time.
We even had our RockHoundLounge T-shirts on, but you
wouldn't have seen them till it got warmer about mid-morning.

Joe

One more trip to the Burgin Mine, Saturday, April 14, 2012.

This visit was blessed by a good omen to begin with. The first
few to arrive were able to watch this Mare giving birth
to its' foal. Yep, she just dropped it out on the ground there
where it was when Scott and I arrived, fashionably late as usual.