Photos by:
Sandy Jacquot

The new trenches cut into the mine floor produced the best matrix with lazulite I have ever seen. Ron found a piece that weighs at least 50 pounds that is covered with dark blue crystals.

Sandy did all the picture taking for this report. I was spending a lot of my time getting video for our new you tube show "American Rockhounds" which I will have done in a week or so.

One of our new members with a nice rutile crystal.

A member found this nice hunk of lazulite matrix rock.

Above, interesting pieces of iridescent hematite.

Pyrite in matrix, Rick B.

Iridescent, Rick B.

Lazulite, Rick B.

Sandy with Junior's two guard dogs!

This was a great trip for our club. I saw at least thirty or more excellent rutile specimens and a ton of the best lazulite matrix I have seen from the mine. Varisite that Mark Gaskins found and some fantastic iridescent. Like I said, I got several hours of video with this material on it and I will let you know when I get the video put together.

A big THANK YOU to Junior for getting us into the pit and hanging out with us on Saturday. The club members did a great job of sharing the productive areas with other members so everyone went home with some nice specimens.

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