I've recently upgraded my camera so I'm going to practice here by re-taking pictures of specimens that have been posted in the past.

First up is:

Chatham County
Rock Crystal Quartz with a Hematite and Chlorite phantom.
5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm

Calcite scepters.

Lee County, Moncure, NC
7 x 3 x 2 cm

Guess.   

Grey's Chapel

Gray's Chapel.

damn if i had read "oldies but goodies" i would've known the right answer, i thought this was maybe one of the super clear ones you got at the trap recently.

These two were from the glorious "spectacular pocket", from Chatham Co., NC.

An experiment with blue and green light on:

Garnet, Wake Co., Raleigh, NC.
5 x 5 x 4 cm  (~2 inches in diameter)

This site is very special to me personally as it was my first big independent discovery.  I was going off the advice I heard from an Earth Science teacher I student taught for while getting my teaching certificate in college.  He said I should be checking construction sites if I wanted to find crystals.

I took his advice when I saw this massive area right on the border of Wake Forest and Raleigh being developed.  A massive pegmatite vein spanned a small section of this site.  In it were massive books of mica along with garnets.

This garnet was the largest one I discovered, and only days before the site was sealed under a parking lot.