Chronata
Back home now, with bags of rocks!
It was So. Much. Fun.
I have never had such a wonderful time hitting things with hammers, or digging around in the mud!
I know I promised pictures, but the laptop died somewhere in Malone, so I will have to wait until I can get them off the camera!
We entered the mine...which was really a giant pile of rocks and boulders, and were told to look for the rocks that had holes...because they were more likely to have crystals inside!
The spouse did a lot of chiseling and sledge hammering to the giant rocks, whereas I just sat quietly and looked around...and there they were!
EVERYWHERE I looked in the ground, there was a small flash of quartz! I found tons of tiny little crystals pretty much everywhere I looked! Some perfect Herkimers which were so tiny that I had to put them in ziplock bags right away, for fear of losing them!
But we also found some bigger crystals too...not as clear and perfect, but certainly amazing! There were so many rocks with the crystals just peeking out! And lots of what they call Druzy...tiny little glittering crystals in the stone.
Some were black, others were yellow...and we found some mica, calcite and other quartz as well!
I would love to do this again some day...and we would have probably been there more than the four hours if it hadn't started raining buckets(and flooding the county!)
Luckily we got out early enough that the road we were on was opened (even though almost all of Herkimer County was closed and considered an emergency zone.
I have sorted all my little crystal bits and now I will sort them again to decide which ones will be wand tips and which ones will go to friends!
It was So. Much. Fun.
I have never had such a wonderful time hitting things with hammers, or digging around in the mud!
I know I promised pictures, but the laptop died somewhere in Malone, so I will have to wait until I can get them off the camera!
We entered the mine...which was really a giant pile of rocks and boulders, and were told to look for the rocks that had holes...because they were more likely to have crystals inside!
The spouse did a lot of chiseling and sledge hammering to the giant rocks, whereas I just sat quietly and looked around...and there they were!
EVERYWHERE I looked in the ground, there was a small flash of quartz! I found tons of tiny little crystals pretty much everywhere I looked! Some perfect Herkimers which were so tiny that I had to put them in ziplock bags right away, for fear of losing them!
But we also found some bigger crystals too...not as clear and perfect, but certainly amazing! There were so many rocks with the crystals just peeking out! And lots of what they call Druzy...tiny little glittering crystals in the stone.
Some were black, others were yellow...and we found some mica, calcite and other quartz as well!
I would love to do this again some day...and we would have probably been there more than the four hours if it hadn't started raining buckets(and flooding the county!)
Luckily we got out early enough that the road we were on was opened (even though almost all of Herkimer County was closed and considered an emergency zone.
I have sorted all my little crystal bits and now I will sort them again to decide which ones will be wand tips and which ones will go to friends!
