BEEEAUUUUUUTiful stuff! Who can't like emerald polka dots?
Emerald never fails to elicit a giddy response. 
I still have a Crabtree cab from Joe from years ago that I cherish.

I will take pics soon (and you guys are in trouble because I finally got a Dinolite!!!!!!), but the sun is out and it is Friday! 

I am thinking a trip is in order when this cold breaks. 

My "point" from Crabtree courtesy of Joe from ....maybe 10 years ago.

Some cabbing material.
The whole crystal on the edge in the first picture is loose.

Great pictures, Rebecca. Are those taken with the dinolite?
Good job! It's nice to see those old pieces, and you do have some nice beryls hidden in there. They haven't changed a whole lot in the last 10 years.    But I understand. There is nothing easy about preparing a specimen or working this material. 
Like that last "cab" piece. It's full of emeralds! What are you going to do with it? Tough decisions and meticulous work. Since that one emerald on the edge is all ready loose go ahead and pull it off but don't throw it away. I'll take it off your hands and see if I can do anything with it.

There could be golden beryl somewhere in that clump, but it's not all golden beryl. I believe it's mostly quartz that has been stained by iron and other minerals. I don't know why the quartz forms all those compacted "crystals" or what dictates their shape. Some of the clump looks "melted". I remember those clumps were good to break apart and look for beryl, garnet, and some of the other minerals. Maybe someone can shine some more light on those formations.
Thanks for the pics!

Yes there are other colors of beryl at the Crabtree. Sometimes in the same crystal.

And a couple nice matrix specimens.

Nice photos, Joe.

I, too, like the last pic with the bicolored beryl crystal.  I'm no geologist, mineralogist, or chemist, but just an ordinary fan of the beryl group.  Looking at the specimen, it appears that during crystallization there was a concentration of Cr in the central part of the slurry that was taken up in the crystal lattice during formation making it an emerald.  As the crystal grew farther from the center, the Cr decreased and Fe increased to give it a creamy yellow color.  Additional Fe would have made this part of the crystal a full blown golden beryl (Heliodor in gemologist terms).

Dennis