Photos are not displaying. Any advice. Thanks. - Tim, Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:18AM
Great job Everett it almost makes me feel like I was there with all of you! - Tom Kuzia, Sun, 10 Jul 2005 5:18AM
1 A photo of the audit at the Crabtree Emerald mine. The audit is the clump of small trees in the middle of the water
2 Carl digging in the dump material at Crabtree
3 Carl and randy at the Crabtree...finding goodies
4 Randy showing off his first emerald found this day
5 This is one of the golden beryls I found on the back side of the dumps at Crabtree
6 Another golden beryl, I have found a good place to dig in the woods
7 HI HO HI HO it's of to digging we go...
8 The large hole in the center of this photo shows the hole I dug while searching for emeralds and golden beryl
9 nice large beryl found at the Crabtree, xl is 3/8 inch in dia
10 several 1/4 inch beryls from Crabtree
11 1 inch beryl show in this photo was just barely sticking out till I preped it, note, I forgot scale in several of these photos, sorry..
12 Lots of beryl, some apatite found in this rock too, only can be seen with black light, also unknown orange under SW UV
13 3/4 inch beryl in quartz/feldspar
14 gemmy beryls in peg from Crabtree mine
15 2 to 3 mm emeralds in matrix
16 poor emerald in matrix
17 nice thumb of schorl in quartz
18 nice "spray" of schorl in feldspar
19 very gemmy golden beryl found during trimming, size is 1/4 in dia and 1/2 in length
20 neat array of schorl and beryl in matrix
21 dark beryl in smoky quartz along with garnet
22 large cabinet of schorl in matrix largest xl is 1 1/2 long
23 largest emerald I found, not the greatest but I found it ;-)
24 small emeralds in matrix
25 emeralds, schorl, garnet and beryl combo piece
26 unknown silver mineral found with schorl...Mike? what is it??
27 Mickey C down in the amy pit at diamond hill
28 Mickey, Gary and others tried there luck in the smoky pit. They were finding nice small cabinets of clusters here.
29 Mike cooling off after a hard dig
30 Mike and I in our team dig hole. this is the skel pit at diamond hill
31 Mike has his hands on a 2 ft plate of nice crystals which now resides in my collection, when hunting at Diamond hill, you should look for the red clay pockets for larger plates of quartz
32 Mike digging, Gary and I taking a sec to look at the camera, I really did dig....
33 spoil piles above amy pit Diamond hill
34 Me hunting at Ray mine, small hole started
35 Wrapping after a good day of hunting, I was shown a nice curve "ball" right after this photo!
36 Randy "collecting" at the Ray mine
37 Mike's waterfall
38 Mike's waterfall full view
39 Lake Streeter
40 Me hunting at Kings Mt RR cut
41 One of the 7 trains that passed us during our visit at Kings Mt
42 View to the parking area, right side towards end of cut geodes are low enough to chisel out of rock
43 Big curve in the cut, 3/4 mile from parking area
44 Nice waterfall at Kings Mt, this is at the very end of the RR cut, no geodes found this far down the tracks
