..friends this time from Wisconsin, where I understand there is still some frozen ground up there and hard to rockhound til it warms up completely, kind of like Minnesota where you cant see the ground til late spring due to the cold and snow up there. I like snow, but not that much and not that long. 🙂
Docia emailed me a couple of weeks ago and told me a couple of guys were coming down last weekend to get some druse and she was going to take them to the secret spot as well, and asked if I wanted to go…well I did, but this was my weekend to work in dispatch, so I didn`t think I would be able to go…however, after washing up some of my plates I found in another pocket behind the five pocket spot, and seeing the beautiful yellow brown druse all over those plates, I decided maybe I could drive down for just a few hours and still get back in time Saturday afternoon, to get some rest before work that night.
I drank half a bottle of black tea and drove down Saturday morning and arrived just ahead of Docia and Floyd, with Scott and Phil right behind them in a passenger car. The guys transferred their buckets and tools over to Docia and Floyd`s suv and we drove on down to look things over…it looked pretty much the way I left it last weekend and after pointing things out, we all set to work.
I walked over and began digging in the yellow brown druse pocket and found a few more nice bubbly plates to take home…then I decided to walk around and do a surface search for goodies…I found a few, like this big chunk with yellow druse and poker chips all over the face….
…however, it was soooo bigggg, and heavy, I decided there was prob no way it was going home with me, even tho I could imagine it sitting in one of my front flower beds rather nicely.
About fifteen feet away, I found a little smaller heavy chunk with the entire face made up of two to five inch poker chips with one corner of the face made up of a cluster of chips…
…again, a little too heavy for me to handle by myself and quite a ways from the truck with several rocks to walk over to get there with it….safely….
In the meantime, Docia found some nice yellow poker chips real close to my yellow brown druse plate pocket…and called Scott and Phil over to look at it…Scott decided to check it out and see what he could find and Phil decided to go find some boulders to bust some pockets for his goodies…these guys came well armed to do some heavy extrication, but really didn`t go at it too hard. 🙂
Scott got into the pocket and expanded it and started finding some nice stuff right off the bat, some nice plates and single crystals both…
Here is one of the goodies he pulled out, druse and poker chip attached combination…
After he and Phil pulled some nice plates out, they decided to move around and see what else could be located, so I moved over and took a look in to see what was left….
I liked what I saw inside, so I started removing some of the top layer and sides, and was pleasantly surprised to find alot of those pieces I chipped out, had druse all over the under side of them…so I pulled quite a few pieces of nice druse out right off the bat, little pieces but very pretty…and then I was able to get some nice poker chip crystals and clusters out, mainly small…and this is what the pocket looked like about an hour later...
Well I worked it for about two hours, went a little longer than I intended to, but I think it was well worth it in what I brought home…and here is the left side of the pocket, a layer of druse mixed with poker chips, which I hope to revisit soon….