very nice indeed its fun being a digger l o l - bob stecher, Wed, 20 Apr 2011 9:05AM
1 Club Dig 4/9/11
2 John getting wash pump ready
3 spoils from track hoe
4 Me in the pit getting ready to collect some pockets
5 Sawing out pockets of fluorite
6 work work hi ho hiiiiii hooooo
7 another spot full of pockets, these have clacite as well as fluorite
8 checking out the goodies
9 nothing better then a black hole...filled with cubes of fluorite and calcite (black hole pocket)
10 another pocket higher in the strata
11 2 ft pocket of fluorite at water line
12 nice cubes of fluorite in this pocket, too far in the matrix to extract with what tools we have, note smithsonite coatings
13 HUGE pocket at water line, hard to tell from this photo but that's almost 3 ft deep with 2 and 3 inch cubes of fluorite in the back
14 beat up pocket, track hoe had it's way with this one
15 the best pocket we found, starting to open up, you can see one of the best pieces in this photo that we found, it is specimen from photo 38 in this photo, back side of specimen, photos 39+ are of front side of piece (black hole pocket)
16 smaller pocket
17 the goodies area
18 we love mud!
19 nice cluster of fluorite 6 inches across
20 some damage on top of this specimen, but nice sphalerites on fluorite in recess
21 Photo does not show how killer this piece is, 4 inch deep pocket taken out whole about 8 inches wide
22 lil cute cluster
23 gemmy fluorite
24 very dark fluorite, this comes from higher levels of the mine
25 nice fluorite cluster 3 inches across
26 same piece as last photo diff angle
27 thumb cluster
28 galena perched on top of this lil beaut
29 black hole pocket produced a lot of floater singles and some broken fluorite cubes with calcite attached
30 same as prev
31 trim me
32 nice zoning in this double cube TN
33 zoning in most of the fluorite, some harder to see, this one was showy
34 one of the best finds next few pictures are of this piece different angles and lighting
35 same
36 same
37 same
38 back side of best fluorite cluster of the weekend, shown in previous pocket photo floater cluster with calcite on back
39 front side of floater with calcite perched on fluorite note: little white flakes on crystals are not damage but reflections of lighting for photos, one one small rub on one tip on this whole piece
40 same
41 same
42 backlit to show off fluorite color, you can see some of the calcites front the back side through the fluorites on the front :)
