Well now that the rains have stopped up here I am gonna go rock collecting again with my friend Docia in southern Missouri to  a location that Docia found a few years ago and we have been driving down there on our free time to look around and have brought back truckloads of pretty druse quartz and poker chip calcite crystals.

Jimmy E, a friend of mine from Minnesota drove down with his daughter, Kira, last year in October, and between the four of us,  we found some very large chunks, plus sized basketball sized chunks, of poker chip calcite crystals to take home and admire. My two chunks are inside for protection from the elements. Poker chip calcite crystals can be quite fragile and I dont want anything to break them off of these two chunks.

Anyway, we get to go again next week and look for some more. I found one smaller sized one last week up there by myself, but would rather go when there are at least two of us due to safety reasons, plus its alot more fun watching each other find some great stuff there.

Here are some of the photos from that trip last year when Jimmy and Kira were down here with us…..we started finding them embedded in the slope of the rock and dirt like this….

and here is another one, uncovered from the rock and just waiting to be set free to enjoy and admire….

and here is how they sometimes are found by accident, on the face of a boulder that from the side might just look like another plain boulder….

..and here is one that we dug out today, and similar to the ones that Kira and Jimmy took home with them that day last year…

and close up on top, looks like this….

..but Docia and I did manage to find some nice ones today as well as you can see in the following photos….

..and last but not least of all….

the next story will be the November 2009 Arkansas Quartz dig….above this one…