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 Feb 18 2005, 07:33 PM
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Shovel Buster!  Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 2-June 04 Member No.: 155  |
What a day at the digs. Been fighting ways to get a huge egg out of a steep narrow tunnel. Finally got some rigging to help with the brute force part. Heres the egg waiting for a lift. ;) At the moment it is 20 feet below the surface.
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Feb 18 2005, 07:38 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 2-June 04 Member No.: 155 |
Usually I let eggs this large cannonball down the steep mountain back to the road. Today something told me to be more careful, so I tied it to a rope and drug it a few feet at a time so it wouldn't impact rocks very hard. After quite a workout, back to the road it was and off to borrow a 3 ft saw.
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Feb 18 2005, 07:45 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 2-June 04 Member No.: 155 |
A couple of hours on the saw, and the egg was ready to fess up what it had been hiding. When it parted, my jaw dropped a little. Inside was a large void with a zillion scintillating quartz crystals. A band of agate ringing the crystal pocket. Horizontally bedded agate at the bottom and showing a rare tilt to the bedded layers. A few yellow calcite crystals among the quartz,, and the whole thing looks just like a cat sitting upright, ears and all. Havent had it on a scale yet, but each half can barely be lifted. Thanks mom nature,,
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Feb 18 2005, 10:21 PM
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 Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 28-November 03 Member No.: 24 |
Si,
That's really a neat find! Amazing crystals inside! Nice photo story too! QJ :D -------------------- |
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Feb 19 2005, 07:31 AM
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 Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Fantastic Si! Good thing you didnt let it roll down hill, that one would have for sure distroyed that beautiful cat inside.
You are definitely "The Egg Man"....koo koo caa choo B)  :D
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Aug 24 2005, 07:49 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 2-June 04 Member No.: 155 |
Ohoh,, boredom posting. I knew it would come to this. Well bear with me,, they tell me this is good therapy for me.
  This is mildly on topic since this came from one of the Alaskan gold mines I used to operate. What I have in my hand is a single wooly mammoth tooth,, note a smaller tooth on the deck. The tooth , along with all sorts of other skeletal bones and tusks, came from about 37 feet below the present day surface. Trapped for more than 20 thousand years in the regional permafrost, the tooth is still viable ivory enamel, and not at all petrified. The tooth looks blacker than it should due to linseed oil coatings to prevent dehydration and cracking. The upper flat surface is the chewing surface. The jagged pointy things on the bottom are the roots.
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Aug 25 2005, 02:40 PM
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 Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 660 Joined: 17-January 04 From: wyoming Member No.: 63 |
sure that isnt a john elway tooth
its big enough for sure, bet one heck of a toothache happens when a tooth that size goes bad, that kitty egg is awesome , cool pics of cool stuff B)
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Jan 28 2006, 01:42 AM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 28-January 06 Member No.: 306 |
hi i am new here and wanted to show you some of my prospecting finds from northern ca and nv. :)
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Jan 28 2006, 01:54 AM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 28-January 06 Member No.: 306 |
here is one more photo from my mine in nv i have never done any prospecting in co but i here its some of the best i have never done any gold mining but a lot of cryatal hunting. have dug crystals off gold mines before but never dug for gold.
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Jan 28 2006, 02:23 AM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 28-January 06 Member No.: 306 |
a small pocket
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 Jan 28 2006, 09:20 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Welcome to the Cp forums scepter-digger. I resized your pics a bit so we could see them a little better, I hope you dont mind. Great pictures! Crystal digging is a blast. Let us know if your ever in Colorado, and we can take you crystal digging and looking for gold. You would have a great time here.
Thanks for sharing your pictures. We cant wait to see more. B) -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
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Jan 28 2006, 12:05 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 28-January 06 Member No.: 306 |
Thanks Mrs.Cp for fixing up the photos,and the offer to take me crystal digging i will let youknow if i come out that way. :D i have been wanting to dig some colorado crystals/gold but have never made it over there yet. If you are ever in california or nevada let me know i can take you to my scepter dig and others. Here are some more photos of crystals i have dug.
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Jan 28 2006, 12:11 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 28-January 06 Member No.: 306 |
smoky quartz with actinolite
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Jan 29 2006, 07:13 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Sweet crystals!!
Its pretty special to find Rutilated Quartz. Good job! How far down did you have to dig to find that? -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
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Jan 29 2006, 08:20 AM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 660 Joined: 17-January 04 From: wyoming Member No.: 63 |
first off let me welcome you to the colorado prospectors, great bunch of people here, now....great finds, thanks for sharing the pics with us
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