Chip says, Hurry up old man! It's already 10:30 and you just finished packing?

Hunter orange for safety. We heard beagles calling across the River it seemed. A few gunshots from the other side of the farm. The landowner kindly kept us at opposite ends of the property.

Found largest kyanite blades yet on edge of plowed field in a certain area between van and where we enter the woods.

This spot usually produces some good stuff. Seems to be the source of what can be found a bit downstream, floated by flood stage waters.

Moonstone can be found where the white and black pegmatite components join but also floating in the quartz layer. I think these must be from fissures that later got jumbled in more faulting or shear, because it has both angular and rounded quartz.  From creek bottom up it goes weathered schist; pegmatite white and black dipping layers and veins, with vertical fissures white or black going up into the quartz layer, which often is in grayish clay, and then the topsoil.

The black vertical fissure pushes up to the quartz layer.

Downstream a little ways, I was digging a hole in the creek to wash/screen material from a promising area. Came up with this blue clay. Was only under the water. Maybe it weathers to the gray clay when exposed to air.

Further downstream stone winks in the sun.  Looks good but was all crumbly and shallow.  Was part of a broad vertical fissure.

Trying to show vertical fissure from cultivator up, but hard to see in photo.

Dumps were pushed right into creek here. On other side is a little chasm the was blasted out. This dump mound/dam makes the chasm like a bathtub. Water flows underneath and into the creek.

I was dragging butt on the way back. Chip kept showing me the easiest path, in, along or above the creek as need be, until we got back to the van. He would trot ahead, then look back to make sure the old man was following.

Was thinking about the bathtub chasm. Miners would have left it open to the creek, and indeed from the topside the dumps on either side and uphill are much higher. Perhaps a past landowner bulldozed dump material to dam the outflow and make a pond. There are several other lesser mines up and down this creek , and they all drain freely to creek level.

Joe, how many chunks do you want?  I have plenty, but most have that parallel planes, so I've always wondered if it would hold up. I suppose I could spare one of the primo pieces that have the larger clear zones. 

I took the 3 matrix photos at the kitchen sink where we have a new LED bulb. Color fidelity is good with these new bright LED bulbs.

Oh yeah, that's a real pretty looking piece of the moonstone!
I don't think we want to start with the best.
Pick out a couple of "maybes" and we'll see what they do. Get in touch or drop them by Roberts' next time you're in town.
I'd love to play with some of it.

Ya'kno, the only thing that specimen piece lacks is a nice big baby blue beryl sitting on it!
Have you any beryl from this site?