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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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