some crystals i found here and there

[uregold]

their not the best since most of them came outta creeks.

[uregold]

these are my best two

[uregold]

[uregold]

[fireonthemountain]

Nice! :-)

[goldrunner]

Pretty cool, another that I have yet to find. Would like to get into hunting crystals. Need to learn more about how to get started.

[uregold]

yeah me too. I don't know much about crystals.

[fireonthemountain]

I'll send you guys some info to help get started

[uregold]

thank you very much for helping a couple of newbies. everybody starts somewhere.

[fireonthemountain]

No problem. I hope you guys find some nice ones!

[goldrunner]

Have a couple places I may try and poke around at tomorrow. Likely nothing but have to try to find out.

[goldrunner]

Ok so round one...me zero. Found nothing. Lots of solid Quartz balls. Started in an area being cleared for construction, headed to a creek bottom. Nothing that looked even a little interesting to me.

[fireonthemountain]

Well that's how it goes checking new spots. Sometimes you find something but a lot of times you don't.
Look for the source. Quartz veins. Can be anything from a small stringer vein to a huge quartz outcrop. Sometimes the smaller veins open up into pockets with crystals. but some quartz veins don't crystalize at all. Look for quartz that has a lot of cavities, flat crystalized faces, or visible crystals.

[goldrunner]

Finding the source was an issue in the construction area, creek button was just a bust. Will have to try a few more areas next weekend. This week is looking pretty crappy weather wise and work wise.

[goldrunner]

Do you typically end up digging pretty deep? Seems like you could if you found the right vein and followed it.

[uregold]

I really don't know if enough to answer your question yet. look for quartz and crystals are pretty lol. that's about all I know so far. i need to get a little better at this first.

[fireonthemountain]

I'll try to take some photos next time I go out if I remember, or maybe some video.

[fireonthemountain]

It really varies from place to place. some veins are pretty shallow and other places they go pretty deep. It just depends on the area.

[goldrunner]

That is what I figured. Look forward to getting out again next weekend. Have more spots in mind. Worse case scenario I get to go back to some pretty lol areas that I have not been to in a long time and just hike and climb around in the quite. Things could definitely be worse.