Field Trip Report:
Fifth Annual Western North Carolina Rockhound Roundup!
July 30th-August 3rd, 2008photos by: Rick Bernotas, Lee Fleming, Mark Gaskins and Rick Jacquot
Fiona and Kali teamed up to hunt the garnets...
And found this instead.
Jeff and Nancy
Bob taking a break.
Little Pine creek, dried up!
John D.
Taylor, Debra and Darren
Rick B's garnets.
One of my matrix pieces, 25 pounds, the largest garnets showing measure 3.5 inches.
Nice triple garnet crystal cluster.
Everyone went home with some nice crystals, but that is normal at the Little Pine mine.