You won't see many quartz crystals from here.
Maybe eventually..........
Right now I just need someplace to start putting pictures of
the material from this old sand quarry next to the Cape Fear River
in southern Harnett County.
The main focus of these will be, eventually, to show the
wide range of lithic or knappable material here. As most of
the rocks and boulders are rounded they have been deposited
here by some ancient erosional event from no telling how far away.
That's one question, along with "What is it?".

One thing that is interesting about this deposit is the wide
range of rhyolites, meta-volcanics, meta-sedimentary stone,
cherts, agates, and other great knapping materials.
This gravel bed, which could go on for miles, definitely needs
to be considered as a lithic stone quarry source.

A sample of the rock you will be looking at; this first
example is what I would call petrified soupy mud.
Or a meta-sedimentary argillaceous "rhyolite".

Pic1.  The Block.

Yep, that's as good as it's going to get folks.

Similar meta-sed.

Every once in a while you will find some very high grade
material. What it is is hard to say. Very very fine grained that
flakes like butter. Is it meta-sedimentary?, a chert?
But it's just like NC Obsidian.

You usually don't find big pieces of this "High-grade".

Sample from Becker,
Pic10

There are also these highly silicified layers full of fossils
found all over this site. Some of the layers are very highly
silicated and can be called agates. Most of the large pieces
of this material are also rounded and obviously transported
at least some distance to this resting site.

I am wondering if the above rock was formed as a chert in
a layer of this fossiliferous agate, and that's where its
surface patterns come from.

Interesting! Did you have any idea that last piece would be so nice inside?
The "block" is such a pretty color...could it be polished?

(And those were the "good" pics. )

Anyway, here's a few pics of the slabs that came off this piece.
A nice large shell got sliced.
Fair Warning;
First pic is outside and last two indoor light.