Termination snow, first snow of the season. Strange that it only snowed on one side of quartz creek. This signifies the end of our mining season. Very sad day, but on a high note, it made for some great photo ops.
Is it Winter or Summer
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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!
Introductions and a Discovery
Here is a little introduction, from left to right, Me – Robert, Daughter – Lyra, Wife- Teri. We are standing in front of an outcropping we discovered this summer with a large quarts vein running through it. It looks like it may be the source for where we are currently finding gold. We have taken grab samples from the vein and are going to have it assayed to find out what it contains. Some of the samples had very nice quartz crystal development, Other samples we could see specks of gold in it, unfortunately the gold was to small to get a good picture of but I will post a picture of the crystalline quartz maybe next post.