Club Member Outings with Mike! Options

[MikeS]

I invited all of the Colorado Prospector Club Members to join me on my claim last weekend and we found some nice Goethite, Fluorite and Quartz crystals!
Thanks everyone for coming! A special thanks to those who helped with transportation and to the CP Club for making this possible.

On Saturday most of us attacked an older dig that has produced some large and unique Goethite in the past. I found a few nice smokey quartz crystals and Dave found a nice blue fluorite cube but it was mostly unproductive. Determined to find big Goethite specimens I went uphill and started tearing at a newer dig that has also produced large Goethite. After digging for the last few hours of the day in the newer spot I found a nice combo of Fluorite and Feldspar on a nice Goethite plate. So on Sunday we attacked that spot and by the end of the day many very nice specimens we harvested.

I only took a few pics in the field and my pictures of the specimens didn't turn out but I will have video edited soon and I will get some good pics of my best finds from the outing.

Here is the few pics I took to get it started.

James, Crusty, Jason and Ian working 3 individual pockets of crystals.






The weather was fantastic besides the haze of smoke coming from the wildfires out west.



More pics and video to come.

[MikeS]

Another great weekend with Club Members at the claim!
At first it looked like no one was gonna make it so Dave and I decided to avoid hiking/digging in the heat by hiking up to the claim at midnight and working it to noontime. I started working a hole that has shown some signs of large goethite pockets. I hit a pocket with lots of quartz and a few medium sized goethite sprays.

Smokey quartz from 1st day.


Goethite from the 1st day.



Dave and I headed back to camp for the afternoon to be ready for another midnight hike. We met up with Colin and Glenda and Colin decided to come up with us at midnight. I continued to pull out medium sized goethite, smokies and a few nice fluorite crystals. I convinced Colin to dig next to me to find more pockets knowing there could be some big ones. He hit a large pocket with some of the biggest and finest goethite and fluorite crystals I have seen come from my claim. I snapped a few pics of the monster goethite with Dave's camera. I will post those pics tomorrow if I can. Here is what I pulled out for day 2.

Goethite day 2. There is a smokey also with goethite on the side of it.



Fluorite