Docia decided to join me Saturday and check out the new location near the secret spot that I checked out two weeks ago…I had told her it was a druse hot spot too and she was chomping at the bit to go when she heard that, even though she discovered another druse hot spot just the other day on her own.

I was going to go to the Eureka Fluorite Mine in Kentucky, but my weekend plans got turned around so many times, and then it rained cats and dogs the few days before thanks to that hurricane making its way on to land in south Texas and turning our way…I decided I really didn`t want to go down there and sit in the mud and water and dig up fluorite. I have so many pretty pieces from there, but I also like to help Bill Frazer and Tina and Ed with their efforts to provide places to rockhounds to dig at too. I decided I would try and go to their public dig in October instead and maybe it would be dryer then. Prob prettier then too.

So Docia and I decided to meet about 11 am and Missy and I drove down and met her on the road….and then drove on over to the new location.

It was still cloudy from the storms the night before, but we could see breaks in the clouds and knew we would have some sunshine as we started finding some goodies. We made a surface search along the outer edges  and then came back to the pile of rocks and Docia started looking for druse while I searched the pile.  Right away I spotted a very large boulder that had some poker chips on it….

…so I went up and cleared away all the little rocks around it, and actually found two small ones to keep that were breakoffs from it…but these pics are the after I cleaned around it photos….

…this was one very large boulder, folks…knew I couldn`t even begin to budge it, plus it was pretty far up in the boulder pile, so without a backhoe, this puppy wasn`t going anywhere fast.  My only consolation was photographing it for now.

I walked on up into the boulder pile and very quickly spotted a yellow chunk of druse, and as I got closer, I bent down and picked it up and dusted it off, only to discover it had two yellow poker chips laying on top, two on one side, and hemitite or limonite balls on one side at the base of it…and I said out load ” oh yeah, I like this one ” and Docia walking by, heard me and asked me what I liked, and I held it up and showed it to her…she liked the looks of it too…I took a photo of it with my phone camera but apparently lost the battery soon after and the photo with the battery power loss….so I photographed it when I got home yesterday and here it is…

...so continued through the boulder pile, found a few nice bigger ones but decided not to take them home this trip, and wait to see what we found in the druse location first. Docia walked back to get her suv, said she had found a few big ones that she wanted to load up and I told her I would make one last search of the boulder pile and then be on up there. I found a few more nice ones buried underneath alot of heavy ones and a few that I might be able to chip off later on…including this corner piece….

As I started back to my truck to head up to where Docia was, I spotted this one glimmering in the rocks at my feet, glowing….

…and I should say, glowing like this, but I couldn`t get a very good shot of it glowing there, so I reshot it yesterday evening glowing on my hot tub cover….and here it is in natural light….

…I had also spotted this one in the rocks before I stopped looking around the pile, pink and yellow druse with an older poker chip attached to it…

…well I drove up to where Docia was parked and she had her blazer loaded down pretty good, she said all her collecting bags were full, five of them, and she had a couple of pretty good sized druse pieces in there as well. One I had seen her carrying down the road and looked pretty heavy…she said later it only weighed about ten pounds but I would beg to differ, lol. She had them loaded up and I couldnt see what they looked like, so no photos available of them.

I grabbed a blue bucket and we started down the hill and there were pretty plates and small pieces of druse sparkling everywhere you looked, it was a druse mecca. I started putting plates in the bucket right and left, some pretty pink ones like this one….

…and while it had some damage to it, it was still just too pretty to let sit there…and then I spotted these two large pieces of druse, and one really stood out…had hematite balls all over it…with some pretty druse peeking out occasionally….and a bubbly gray druse near it….I called out and Docia came over to look at them….

…and then I turned it over to see the other side….

…and then not very far down the hill from those two, I found this one…

…gray druse bubbles with hematite balls all over the face of it…and I was digging it out when Docia started yelling ” HOLIE COW,  its my DREAMPIECE !!!! ” and told me to bring my camera and come look and see what she found…later I think the story was retold to be ” see what she almost stepped on and found “, lol. I got down to the bottom of the hill and up aways to where she was dancing around, and I was like, whoa, that is something else….very nice large round smokey colored quartz crystals in bubbles all over the face of it, sitting there facing the sun and waiting on someone to come along and take it home….

She dug it out and started up the hill with it and I told her to stop near the top and hold it up..against the cloudy blue sky, she and her DREAMPIECE looked pretty good….

 

…but even when it was sitting there in the dirt, it looked pretty nice too….

…although it almost blended in well with the dirt…I can see now how she almost stepped over it and missed it…lucky for her she almost fell over it, or she would have bypassed it….

I asked her to keep her eyes peeled for another one of similar color, while I continued picking up plates on down the way…and actually I was finding alot of poker chip attachments in this area as well…

…like this one, covered in yellow druse and three poker chips….

..and this one which was covered in dirt, but I was able to see two or three chips sticking up out of the dirt so kept it with me and here it is cleaned up at home…then Docia yelled at me to bring a digging tool, she found another one just like hers….so I lugged my full bucket up to the truck and grabbed a rake and headed up her way again….lo and behold, she did find one of similar color to hers and a little smaller too…I didn`t photograph it there, by that time we were both getting worn down from all the material we were finding and carrying up to the trucks…so when I got it home, I cleaned it up and here it is…

and lit by flash since the sun was on its way down by the time I got it all cleaned up….

 

…very pretty and I like it alot, my favorite color in quartz and druse is smokey….. Thanks Docia !