It started out a beautiful overcast day. The light was perfectly diffuse allowing us see everything without the distraction of shadows.  Then the rain came and drenched us real good.  But it came and went giving us the rest of the day to explore in the cool dry air. I found a nice crystallized crack that ran through a very large vein of quartz. The druse turned out to be amethyst.  Here was one of the nice amethyst druse clusters I found today. I wanted to take a picture of the neat oxide coating before I soaked it in the acid in case it goes away.

A closer look was necessary.

These were the best pieces found from this pocket. I could only just now photograph them because I had them sitting in acid for the previous two days. The weird oxide surface features turned out to be included in the quartz and were not affected by the acid.

And you want me to post some pics of the "yard" rock from there.
HA HA HA Glad you don't ask for much!
Great pics of the unusual growth and inclusions in this strange sliver of crystallization you found!
I love the "swirly" surface hematite inclusions. The crystals at the top of this piece have some of it.
This "yard rock" is about 10" high and 8" wide on sides. So obviously you can see why it was too big and bulky
for Scott to carry through the now knee deep mud alllllllllll the way back to the car
and left it for me.

Very Interesting and great close-up of those needles, Scott.
I can't see them that well with my loupe!
I wonder if we've seen needles like that from somewhere else recently?

Here's a nice formation I wanted to capture.
FOV 2cm

very pretty and delicate stuff. nice finds

A few more finds from hitting the same spot last weekend.