And up pops the little one!

And it was a good omen for some of the diggers that showed up.
Scott found the biggest pocket with the biggest whole
crystals I've seen from the Burgin yet. But I'd say the pocket
that Amber got into had the prettiest crystal clear crystals
of the day! Beautiful 4 inch double and single terminated ones!
I hope to see some of them cleaned up sometime.
I dug a really big hole that didn't have much in it.

Here's a pic of Scott holding onto an edge of his pocket.
He's saying, "MINE!"
And a pic of Amber cleaning out the end of her pocket with
Sean frantically searching for anything in the background.

Always a fun day at the Burgin Mine! 

Well, the Burgin ain't so Virgin anymore.

Seeing as how Scott and I couldn't get up to the mountains
for all the rockhounding and rock shows this week, we decided we owed
it to ourselves to get down to the Burgin for a little digging
today. We brought newbie rockpup Ryan from PA with us.
Just kidding about Ryan being a "rockpup". He has done quite
a bit of rockhounding up in PA where he's from and is only a
newbie when it comes to NC. This was his maiden voyage to
the Burgin, or to any crystal hunting site in NC for that
matter. We are looking forward to him learning how to resize
his pictures so he can start posting some of his PA
specimens on the board here for all of us to enjoy.

So it was already pretty hot by 9:30 when we were ready
to begin digging. We had a look at where we left off the
last time we were there, and then got started.

After walking around and giving the place the once over
Ryan comes over to join us and takes a spot at the other
end of the mud seam we have been following for months.

In the meantime Scott comes over and starts digging on the
other side of the trough from me, and finds a nice vug in
the wall of the bull quartz. I think he decided to name this the
"Up and Coming" vug.
And he may have a video of pulling this one out.

Hate i missed a trip to the Burgin but a few people were talking at round up about getting a dig there in two weeks and do an overnight stay so we can move some serious rock.  I will post my round up stuff eventfully, got skunked pretty hard most days at the ray but i found one 11.3 carat of CLEAR light blue aqua that i have been told would make a nice little stone.