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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Franklin, July 2014 Jul 31^st, 2014 at 9:57pm	Print Post
	Well, I don't have much to report but I'm very glad I went. It's been years since I've been in the heart of corundum country or to the shows, and it was very educational. I met a few ol'timers, legends in their own right, and learned a bit of the history of the area. And it's always good to see folks you've dug with. One nice thing about Franklin is they have quite a few good restuarants to choose from. I didn't get around much. here's the view from our parking lot toward Franklin at dusk.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Franklin, July 2014 Reply #1 - Jul 31^st, 2014 at 10:04pm	Print Post
	You could probably find anything you wanted at one of the many shows going on. I prowled around the one we were at. A whole lot of what you would expect to see, but some atypical pieces of the typical stuff. Like this piece of Brazillian amethyst with a huge nice calcite perched on top $425.00, or this large piece of baby blue Hemimorphite.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Franklin, July 2014 Reply #2 - Jul 31^st, 2014 at 10:08pm	Print Post
	Besides for the Elmwood Barite I purchased, (pics in the Tennessee section), this piece of mica with garnets from Pine Mtn, Mitchell Co., NC caught my eye.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Franklin, July 2014 Reply #3 - Jul 31^st, 2014 at 10:16pm	Print Post
	And one day this infamous digger duo from Asheville shows up and he offers me these two pieces of Afghanistan Green Spodumene for a Crabtree Emerald I've had on display for sale for years and I guess I was overwhelmed by the spontaneous energy coming from these pieces that I said why not. And then he shows me one of their recent finds from Probst.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Franklin, July 2014 Reply #4 - Jul 31^st, 2014 at 10:21pm	Print Post
	Last but not least, a couple pics of some absolutely beautiful Ellis Farm amethyst dug in the last year. I was very happy to be able to see it!

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Tim4d God Member Offline I like creeks & rivers to do the digging for me. Posts: 658 Location: Chester, VA Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Franklin, July 2014 Reply #5 - Aug 3^rd, 2014 at 10:44pm	Print Post
	Did your pudding stone sell as expected?


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Franklin, July 2014 Reply #6 - Aug 4^th, 2014 at 9:27am	Print Post
	No it didn't, Tim. Guess it wasn't a Pudding Stone crowd.


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