After hunting for druse all day Saturday the 6th with the MAGS Club members, Docia and I treated Ralph to a private location hunt on Sunday. Ralph wanted to find some dogtooth calcite crystals and more druse…. I looked for more poker chips with druse…. and Docia looked for more pink druse. This location provides so many different types of material to look for and makes for a great trip no matter what. We weren`t sure what exactly would be left to dig through, since there has been a machine operating there for the past few weeks on the slopes we have been sifting through for the past couple of years. I decided to drive up with no expectations and was somewhat surprised to see some material left. I told Ralph we might just have a nice day after all.

Ralph decided to work the bluff holes in search of dogtooth crystals and plates of druse, he is seen here to the right of the machine, hammering and chiseling….

I worked the upper slope on the other side of the machine up high, near the spot I worked last weekend and found a few crystals, but nothing major. I did wind up knocking a few big boulders down in the name of safety tho. On the way up the pile, I had found a few medium sized chunks of poker chips and carried them back to the truck, then while I was photographing Ralph working away on the bluff hole, I looked down in the rocks piled up at my feet near the parking lot and spotted several medium and large chunks of poker chips and druse quartz. This was the first one I spotted, dark gray druse and a ridge of poker chips along the top of it.

and here it is up close…

…believe me, when the sun is shining down, you can see the ridges on the chips sticking out and that is what normally catches my eye more than anything, that or the druse sparkling.

As I was pulling this one out of the rocks, I looked down to where I was tossing some of the other rocks to safely remove it, and discovered two smaller poker chip chunks as well. I decided then and there, I was gonna have to look over any area that I was going to toss rock discards, before I tossed them there. Never know where you will find pretties lurking.

About ten feet more to the right and I found two looking at me, and when I started digging into them, I discovered two more underneath, some with a little damage, but all in all, some very nice large poker chip chunks. Let me tell ya, I was one happy camper.  🙂

Here are a few of my finds today…

and one of the big surprises found today…this one you can see just a corner of it sticking out of the pile at my feet….

and the other side…..

I like the yellow poker chips more so, but they are all pretty to me, the yellow ones just really stand out. Found a large poker chip with a deep orange color to it, nestled on top of a chunk of gray druse quartz, too.

After getting them all home and cleaned up somewhat, the initial dust and clay stains washed off, I set up a makeshift table in the back yard to get them up off the grass and allow my grass to continue to grow since Spring appears to be here finally.

All in all, a nice day…Docia took off early afternoon and we left a few hours later. As we climbed the hill out of there, a nice set of sunbeams greeted us. Fitting end to a phenomenal weekend of hunting, digging, and collecting.