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Jay trimming down a nice sized rock with great vugs in it.
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Wow Jay you must have found something good
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nice iridescence to these pieces, seem to be purple but really brown pseudo-cubes.
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another vug found in same rock Jay was working on.
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split split...hammer hammer...hey look at this guys!!
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John checking out the loot ready to be pounded out
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John "trimming" down a nice calcite vug
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this is a working quarry and they do a lot of work.
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hard to tell in this photo but the center grey/brown area is a 6 inch vug of calcite crystals. They are still at the quarry.
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showing the exposed face of the limestone.
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Jay and John. nice pose Jay!
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Loading the huge trucks for sorting up at the trommel
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overview of quarry
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more work, they do not blast at this quarry all is dug by machine.
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they have two trucks running a large circle, talk about seeing the same thing while driving to work...these guys do this for 8 to 10 hours a day.
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Jay caught me off guard
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larger xls
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Largest calcite plate, 2 gen of calcite, brown calcites etched
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Up close of large calcite plate
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Water clear gypsum in pocket of pseudo cubic calcites with purple iridescence
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close up of gypsum
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Large crystals of pseudo cubic calcites
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close up of above photo, photos do not show how gemmy these crystals are...
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pieces of etched brown calcite scalenhedral crystals, one blade of baryte on RH piece
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diff view, pieces do not show this yellow in person
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pseudo cubic rootbeer calcite,partial crystal of celestine?
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Another scalenhedral calcite plate with two gen of calcite, clear calcites are semi-gemmy
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