Went Rockhounding with the Tulsa Club on Saturday, May 22nd in south central Missouri, they came up here to see what our druse quartz looks like and so Docia and I met with them in the morning near Viburnum and then took them out in the woods. There were about twenty five that made the trip up from Tulsa the night before and they were eager to find some pretty pieces. We spent the morning combing thru the undergrowth of poison ivy and heavy leaves to find some beautiful stuff for them to take home. It was a little hot and muggy, but we made it thru the morning hours and found several nice plates of druse.
I found a nice plate that measured about twenty inches long and fifteen inches wide, covered in tan colored bubbles of druse, sticking out of a clay ditch bank and with some help from Paulino, who is Italian and living in Tulsa, I was able to free it up and carry it to my truck at the top of the hill. Since bringing it home and cleaning it up, my neighbor across the street has decided it will make a good bowl for his waterfall and so he is going to work on it this weekend and drill a hole in the top wall of it and let the water flow up into it and down the waterfall path. He has a very pretty waterfall in his front yard, and has a few of my rocks from my travels and digs, in and around the pool.
So we spent the morning drusy quartz hunting and then proceeded over to the secret spot after that and spent a few hours out in the hot sun…didn`t take long to find a lot of pretties there and fill their bags and buckets. I found a few smaller pieces and took a look at the embedded poker chip crystals again, even gave it a few whacks with the hammer and newer chisels, but wasn`t able to liberate a thing.
In that heat, it didn`t take long to stop working so hard, believe me.I took a pic of Virgil sitting on the tailgate of his Tundra truck, and Paulino to the right… the truck bed pretty fairly full of rocks and minerals and druse, and a fairly good load of Mozarkite from the Lincoln area. They stopped there on the way down Friday.
After a few hours, everyone decided they had enough material and headed home. Virgil and Paulino took off and I decided to check out one more area before heading home. I no sooner stepped out of my truck at the other spot and was greeted by a beautiful medium sized chunk of druse and poker chip crystals. I quickly grabbed one of my canvas bags and rock hammer and started walking down the rock strewn path, suddenly energized once again with a full charge on my batteries.
Within five minutes I had the bag half full and had located a basketball sized piece with nice druse and nice poker chip crystals all over it and decided to walk it back up to the truck. I heard the sound of a pickup truck and looked up to see Virgil and Paulino returning…seems they decided they hadn`t quite filled Virgil`s truck up all the way yet and came back to see what I was finding.
They stuck around for another hour and we located several nice druse and poker chip combo pieces as well as a few nice druse chunks. Paulino found one at the bottom of the hill, liked it so well he hoisted it up and carried it up the hill to Virgil`s truck. It had big bubbles of pretty brown colored druse all over the top of it. Unfortunately, I didn`t take any photos of the pieces we found.