I decided to return to the Holie Cow pocket and see if I could remove some more goodies and check for side pockets extending off it as well. Missy and I arrived late morning and I decided to take a different route in, discovering as I did, where all the blasted rock was being applied…to the dam to prevent erosion and keep down the dust apparently….

…since it was pretty extensive, about a quarter of the dam covered so far, I decided to walk a little of it and see if I could find anything pretty and undamaged…one never knows if you can find undamaged but I was pleasantly surprised when I neared the bottom of the hill and found not one, but three combos of druse and poker chips with no apparent damage to them…glistening in the sun and soon in my arms and headed back to the truck.

We drove on down to the lower area and as I was walking across the parking area, I saw where the ground surface had been cleared with a dozer and the low spots and high dome spots were more apparent now…

I walked over to one of the dome areas and started digging down at the edge in a low spot and soon discovered an opening….

…and here is what I saw in the opening that I discovered after digging down a bit….

…I walked over and looked at the Holie Cow Pocket, and decided to leave it alone for Docia and Ian…and as I walked to the floor pocket, I came up on some evidence of  calcite crystals in the rocky area at my feet up on the pile…so I dug down with my mattox and after about an hour of this, I had a bag full of pure white poker chip crystals with a few clusters as well…musta been a pocket that was knocked down with the last blast and was fairly intact when it came down. 

I walked back to the truck with the bag of poker chips and then returned to the floor pocket with another bag and set to working it. Within a few minutes, I had pulled a few dogtooth crystals out, orange ones that is, and a few blue ones as well as some small plates of druse with hematite balls all over them. I dug back and found a back opening as well…

…you can see the pile of crystals and plates on the dome above the pocket…and let me tell ya…everything coming out of there was covered and coated with a thick ooey, gooey clay mud…and pretty soon I was coated with it as well, from my elbows down….

…and here is one of the plates closer up, showing nodules of druse and hematite balls all over it….

…and the first plate I pulled out, even closer up….

…I reached back into the pocket and worked the edges and down under and behind those edges, pulling more crystals out and seeing if the pocket would expand…it didnt want to, so I just worked what I could find….

…I even tried to chip a few plates from the edges, but boy, that was solid stuff and wouldnt budge…I did manage to free a nice cluster of poker chips embedded in the corner of the pocket though….from this open spot….

…and then I stopped for the day….I was still tired from the day before and daylight savings time was in force now, so darkness wasnt far away….

…by the way, that interior cluster had poker chips with dark gray interiors on them….I filled in my hole since this one was in the floor and headed for home. It was late enough in the day that the winter wheat was illuminated nicely by the sun….

…and caught this pretty sunset up near Cuba on the way home….