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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Mecklenburg county Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 10:59am	Print Post
	I didn’t see a thread for Charlotte, so I figured I would start one.

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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #1 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 11:01am	Print Post
	All of these are from west Charlotte

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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #2 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 11:02am	Print Post
	Sorry for spamming, I don’t know how to attach multiple photos.

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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #3 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 11:02am	Print Post
	Same crystal

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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #4 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 11:05am	Print Post
	Actually that wasn’t the same Crystal.. oops.

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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #5 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 11:38am	Print Post
	Nice little cluster that popped off a car sized Boulder


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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #6 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 11:40am	Print Post
	Photo didn’t show up In my last post

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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #7 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 12:20pm	Print Post
	Larger cluster

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4203 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #8 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 7:37pm	Print Post
	Yes, you're finding some nice crystals down there! I know they're there but I haven't been to Charlotte in over 20 years except to drive by on I-85. Keep on hunting and thanks for the pictures. The crystal in your second picture looks like it has some little spots of Hematite or Iron Oxides on the side of it? To post multiple pictures on the same entry, click on the arrow by the word "Attachments" to the left and another Browse box will magically appear.


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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #9 - Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 7:50pm	Print Post
	JoeM wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2024 at 7:37pm: Yes, you're finding some nice crystals down there! I know they're there but I haven't been to Charlotte in over 20 years except to drive by on I-85. Keep on hunting and thanks for the pictures. The crystal in your second picture looks like it has some little spots of Hematite or Iron Oxides on the side of it? To post multiple pictures on the same entry, click on the arrow by the word "Attachments" to the left and another Browse box will magically appear. These were found literally right off 85 😝


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #10 - Feb 9^th, 2024 at 8:42am	Print Post
	Awesome crystals. Were those surface finds, or have you found the parent vein and are able to dig those crystal in situ?

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Zane YaBB Newbies Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 26 Joined: Jan 18^th, 2024 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #11 - Feb 10^th, 2024 at 11:58am	Print Post
	Scott LaBorde wrote on Feb 9^th, 2024 at 8:42am: Awesome crystals. Were those surface finds, or have you found the parent vein and are able to dig those crystal in situ? mainly surface finds. I’m hoping to get a little time out there to dig now that deer season is over. Those clusters came out of a construction site where they had exposed a vein. There were boulders with huge vugs, but the rock was really hard and we didn’t really have the means to get the crystals out. They ended up getting hauled off before we could get to the good stuff

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Mecklenburg county Reply #12 - Feb 12^th, 2024 at 10:53am	Print Post
	Wow, that's a huge crystallized vug there. I would have come back immediately with a hammer and chisel. Too bad they hauled it all away, but that's the ephemeral nature of construction sites -- you got to get it as soon as you can.

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