An Amazing Pocket August 22nd

I hope we don`t run out of names for all the great pockets we are finding lately…the birthday pocket and the pocket found a few days after that one could have easily been named the amazing pocket as well…

I came home early from work on my short night Sunday with every intention of getting a few hours nap before getting up at 5 am to meet up with Docia at the secret spot and do some more hunting. My fire pager nixed that idea when it sounded a couple of hours early and we were toned our for a house fire on the south end of our fire district…suffice it to say thirty minutes later I was turning around and returning home after arriving to find a furnace problem only, no smoke showing as stated when the tones dropped. I tried to nap a bit but that didnt work well either, so just got up early and got ready to go instead….Docia emailed to tell me it might be 7 before she arrived and we decided to meet up on top of the hill and decide where to go from there.

Once there, we decided to head to the lower area and see if we could find a few more pockets, and once down there, we found that some more material had been removed so we started checking out those areas first. I had intended to get my new digging tool out and resume my dig from last week, but actually never got to do that. After walking around and checking out the newly disturbed areas, I found a few nice little clusters and combos….

After that, I walked down along the wall and spotted some druse shining in a small opening in the wall and walked over to check it out…looking in, I could see some crystals inside and was able to pull one crystal out and found it attached to some bubbly gray druse. I saw even more crystals inside, but knew I would never be able remove them through the small opening, so I retrieved my hammer and chisel after taking a short water bottle break. Forgive me folks, I didn`t retrieve my camera as well, so will take a few photos of the finds from this small pocket tomorrow morning and post them later. I will say that after chiseling out and enlarging the opening, I was able to take some nice crystal combos out of there.

As I was taking those crystals over to the truck and get another bottle of water, I spotted alot of calcite chunks in the gravel and asked Docia if that was an area she had previously checked out…she said she wasn`t sure due to everything being changed around in the last few weeks with all the work going on, so I decided to grab my digging tool and check it out after another small water break. Docia decided to check out more openings along the wall.

Within a few minutes of raking around, I located an opening under a ledge and began pulling out poker chip crystals and a few small druse plates of yellow and green druse with hematite and limonite balls covering the druse…Docia was working on a small pocket in the wall when I let her know I had found a pocket…

….you can see the pocket in the lower right hand corner above while she is working on a pocket in the wall…and once I started pulling crystals and plates out, it didn`t take her long to pick up her bags and come see what I was finding…

…and here is the pocket up close with a crystal found sitting right in the opening…

..and a little closer up…

…and the next photo shows the first few items removed…take a good close look at the dogtooth crystals in the photo, one attached to the druse plate and the other two are actually triplets…

Docia suggested I place them on one of my blue gloves to give them better contrast for ya…

….and she was right….

….and here is a closeup on my glove of the next little dogtooth cluster that I pulled out…

…..and then I pulled this larger cluster out…..

By now I was reaching into the pocket up to my shoulder and pulling several dogtooth crystals out, as well as several poker chips, plates, and clusters…so I decided to chisel out the opening to the pocket to gain easier access to it…..

….the drusy plates coming out were mostly palm sized and green and yellow in color, with hematite balls all over the plates. Here are some more photos of the crystals and clusters I pulled out after widening the opening…

…and the next few reaches inside amounted to these chips, points, and a nice cluster…

..and here is a closeup of the cluster….

I was setting everything behind me as I pulled it out, here are more in the pile behind me….

I reached back in and pulled out more crystals with the dogtooth exposed, poker chips, and plates….

…again, I found myself reaching into the pocket and up to my shoulder, only to discover the pocket moving deeper straight back as well as to the left and right…so we decided to open the roof of the pocket even more to gain access to the crystals. The only problem with that, was that the roof of the pocket was about ten inches thick dolomite…I was growing tired, so Docia volunteered to pound the top of the roof with my four pound hammer and loosen it up for me…

..I took a few crystals off the sides, some coming out intact and some didn`t, but I was trying to gain access to the hundreds of dogtooth crystals that were inside this pocket…yes I said hundreds…many of them were loose and just laying on the floor of the pocket from the beginning to the back of the pocket and there was even a little pocket inside the pocket with even more loose crystals inside it…this is why I refer to this as the AMAZING POCKET…by the sheer magnitude of the dogtooth crystals that were located inside it…all of them a deep yellow and some with a rainbow sheen to them as well…simply amazing…and once we had the roof of the pocket peeled back, Docia saw what I had been feeling with my hands inside and on the floor of the pocket…

..dogtooth crysals spread out all over the floor of the pocket, some of them were quite sharp to the touch, too. Maybe I should have called it the OUCH pocket. Here is a close up of a few of the crystals on the floor of the pocket…