One day we decided to take a break from digging and do some more exploring of the claim. We decide to walk up the mountain from where we were digging and found a large outcropping of bedrock. At first glance it did not look very significant, other than it was a large shelf with 75 feet exposed, it looked like a giant step. We walked around this outcropping inspecting is closer and as we started to pull the moss off of the face of the rock we uncovered a very large quartz vein with tons of stringers running all through the formation. We kept pulling off moss and kept uncovering more and more quartz. My mother-in-law found a loose piece of quartz and pulled it loose, it was a beautiful crystalline quartz specimen. We are very suspect that this quartz is the source for the gold we are currently finding, The plan is to send out a few grab samples for assay, wish us luck. Who love’s rocks…….I do! I do! 
This sounds kinda like an adventure Erik and I took during the summer this year. We went exploring by the mountains by our house, and hit some golf balls. So as we were driving around we just randomly found a bunch of quartz in this one spot out all the rocks. It was so cool, so erik uses his club to hit some of the quartz out. We got some good size rocks to take home, but erik wanted the really big one that we found. Needless to say it was hot, and he wanted to go back another day. We just got to shine them up, but they really are pretty rocks.
Quartz is a very pretty rock. Depending on the size if you can find someone with a rock saw they can slice it into coaster size pieces, they make a beautiful addition to a coffee table and they are a great conversation piece as well! You guys should get a metal detector, you are in gold country, you never know. Besides who knows what else you could find with a detector in hand walking around down there. Maybe and old train heist stash! That would be fun.