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Foray Into a Typical Fractured Wake County Pocket
Feb 5th, 2019 at 8:17pm
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Well, I wasn't sure whether to put these pics in the "Fieldtrips" section, or elsewhere,
but I thought I'd share these pics of finds from a recent pocket at the now world famous Cemetery Site here in Wake County, NC.
As we have said, a lot of the crystal material in the pockets is badly fractured, and re-healed. And some of the re-healed crystal fragments are very nice specimens.
The first pic below shows the position of the pieces as I found them in the ground. I believe they were once one crystal but they were separated with solid clay between them. The top left piece was the first to come out and then I could see the point of the large piece. And see that it was a fractured crystal, with a real sharp point on it.
Now these pieces were the bottom of the pocket. Above these pieces was the rest of the vein/fissure, about a foot of very pretty fractured material. Every once in a while a whole terminated crystal will roll out. That is what the crystal to the far left in the first picture is. But it was above the other 3 pieces and not connected to them.
  

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Reply #1 - Feb 5th, 2019 at 8:26pm
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The largest piece is 6.5 inches long.
Here are some pics of the 2 top pieces to try and show some of their re-healing.
  

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Reply #2 - Feb 5th, 2019 at 8:47pm
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A whole lot'a action going on, but no accessory mineral inclusions on either of those pieces.
We have noticed this on several other occasions at the Cemetery. Where just one fragment will get "super-charged" and get "infused" with all the minerals available.
Such is the case with the fragment from the bottom left.
The first pic is the front of the crystal, with a couple of close-ups of the patches of reticulated golden rutile needles on the top and bottom of the ridge of quartz sticking out from the right side of the crystal. (Have to apologize for the quality of those close-ups, but that's some shiny needles!)

Then the back of the crystal, and some close-ups.
This piece was packed with stuff! Smiley
Gotta take what you get.  Smiley
  

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Reply #3 - Feb 7th, 2019 at 12:14am
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I think know I'd enjoy going there, or some place similar. Even if I only got a tiny crystal. But... it's a bit too far to walk.  Undecided
  
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Reply #4 - Feb 7th, 2019 at 3:32pm
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Awesome inclusions and photos! Thanks for sharing. Can't believe we are finally seeing the end of the cemetery.  Cry It's provided us with so many wonderful finds.
  

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Reply #5 - Sep 4th, 2019 at 11:06pm
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Can any of this material be faceted into a light smoky quartz gem?
  
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Reply #6 - Sep 5th, 2019 at 12:16pm
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Well Eric, we have found alot of facet grade material at this site, but I don't think there is much of that quality in this pocket. There maybe a small area of facet grade in the bottom portion of the big piece.

Are you faceting stones?
  
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Reply #7 - Sep 5th, 2019 at 12:31pm
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No, I'm not faceting stones, just wanted to gauge the quality of some of the quartzes, as not too much info can be found online about them.
  
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Reply #8 - Sep 5th, 2019 at 3:31pm
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I bet you would love learning to facet! Smiley Wink

Main Quartz reference source, The Quartz Page,http://www.quartzpage.de/
Here in the Southeast the "quality" of the quartz changes from vein to vein and pocket to pocket within sites. Often times you will find a cluster of average to fair quartz crystals with just one super fine facet grade crystal in the middle. Or a row of milky crystals with an amethyst on the side.
  
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