| April 25, 2015 Documenting an Amethyst crystal occurence in Ogelthorpe County, Georgia. This is the first time machinery has dug for amethyst crystals at this site - March, 2015. This site is different from the six s's site and is a few miles away. I was asked to bring my machine out and run it with a group of people to dig for amethyst crystals. This is private property that is not open to the public and the land owner does not welcome visits. Every member of the team (myself included, of course) had to agree not to disclose the location details. |
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| The crystals shown are freshly dug and still have dirt on them. They also have a hematite coating with an iridescent rainbow of color! The photo above right shows the crystals in-situ in the saprolite matrix. |
| Don Brockway & Dave Smith are shown digging the crystals out of the vein with special custom blacksmith-forged 'Arkansas Bars'. This is a 'straight line vein' but as shown with the green highlighted path, the vein deviated. This was most likely due to the vein filling a fault or crack in the host rock when the crystals were first formed. This whole mass used to be solid granite but over millions of years has decayed into what is called "Saprolite". |
| The crystal below has a 360 degree three dimensional phantom inside it! |
| The digging group consisted of Chester Karwoski, Myself (Rodney Moore), Donald Brockway, David Smith, Lisa Krause, Jeffrey Lennox, Tim Rawlings and Miss Katelyn Moore. The machine used to dig with was my backhoe, A New Holland LB75.B that weighs 15,000 pounds. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO OF GETTING THE CRYSTALS AND THE BACKHOE: CLICK HERE |
| Just fun stuff from digging. |
| SNAKE!!! |
| Bacon! |
| So Zef. :) |
| Above is Jeffrey Lennox & Donald Brockway |
| Above is Tim Rawlings & David Smith |
| Above is Lisa Krause looking VERY happy |
| Above is Chester Karwoski, Don, Rodney, Lisa, & Dave |
| Sometimes I bring my Coleman propane camp stove out to the digs and make grilled cheese sandwich's . Sometimes I go all out and also have eggs and bacon. In the winter time I bring a coffee perk kettle. |
| Georgia has many counties that have amethyst crystal deposits. This project was in Ogelthorpe county,Georgia. There are many places in Ogelthorpe County that have amethyst crystals & the quality of these crystals vary greatly from location to location. At this particular spot we found a few nice whole and complete crystals. Most of the crystals didn't completely form due to a lack of space in the vein. The exterior of the crystals are very bright and shiny and many have a nice thin and colorful iridescent hematite coating on the outer surface. The interior of most crystals had good clarity with a light purple color. Some crystals had a very good medium to dark color amethyst. Most of the crystals were bi-color, having both amethyst and smoky zones. In addition to specimens, some facetable material was found. |
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