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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2972 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Tarheel Gem & Mineral Club trip to Baldwin Farm Sep 25^th, 2014 at 9:56pm	Print Post
	September 20, 2014 The Baldwin Place Farm.� It was a beautiful sunny day.� The cool morning air reminded us that fall was just three days away.� As the members gathered their tools and buckets Randy Davis the property owner welcomed us and pointed at the trailer attached to a tractor where we could pile all of our tools and buckets.� Not only did he bring our tools to the mine but had a wash bin set up at the mine for us to wash our specimens.� That is what I call a great host!
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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2972 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Tarheel Gem & Mineral Club trip to Baldwin Farm Reply #1 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 10:10pm	Print Post
	To the Lost Cause Mine!� Angle plated quartz oddities coming from this location are unique, and interesting to say the least.� And since amethyst and smoky druzy has been found within some of the angled pockets, interest in collecting the material was high. Along the way we saw a particular type of mushroom growing everywhere.
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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2972 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Tarheel Gem & Mineral Club trip to Baldwin Farm Reply #2 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 10:12pm	Print Post
	Here is the vein I was digging on. A vertical vein that seemed to cross the entire mine area.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2972 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Tarheel Gem & Mineral Club trip to Baldwin Farm Reply #3 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 10:13pm	Print Post
	Here's a couple specimens I found cleaned up.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2972 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Tarheel Gem & Mineral Club trip to Baldwin Farm Reply #4 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 10:15pm	Print Post
	Here's a few pictures of some of Randy's finds he had laid out all around the property.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2972 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Tarheel Gem & Mineral Club trip to Baldwin Farm Reply #5 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 10:19pm	Print Post
	We all had a great time digging the vein. We filled our buckets and our rock appetites. Thanks again Randy for a great time at the Baldwin Place Farm.

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John Frazier Senior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 311 Joined: Jun 15^th, 2011	Re: Tarheel Gem & Mineral Club trip to Baldwin Farm Reply #6 - Sep 26^th, 2014 at 7:00am	Print Post
	Thanks for all the great pics of the Baldwin Farm.


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L82Play Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 195 Joined: Jul 10^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Tarheel Gem & Mineral Club trip to Baldwin Farm Reply #7 - Sep 26^th, 2014 at 12:20pm	Print Post
	Thanks - good report - angle plated quartz - hummm those are definitely some strange looking rocks. cheers, r

	sung to the tune of 'Green Acres' Erosion is the thing for me I just don't like to dig - you see Picking rocks up right off the ground is good enough for this lucky old rockhound
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