A few days after Ian was here, I took the day off from work and returned to the secret spot to see if anything was left. Docia was out of state visiting and when I arrived, I could see a drilling rig set up on the bluff above, so it was obvious that more material was about to be blasted down soon. I figured I had better check the east wall for more pockets on this trip cause it was likely that wall would be gone by the time I returned. Since there was only a little bit of rock material left in the pile, it seemed logical to me that they may be blasting within the next week.
I didnt waste any time after arriving…switched to my boots and grabbed a couple of bags and tools, and walked over to the east wall and started looking around. In no time at all, I discovered what appeared to be a pocket full of gray druse chunks…but have discovered that poker chips like to lurk inside druse pockets alot…
….and vice versa as well…often we find druse in poker chip pockets too….I began clearing away the clutter and loose stuff and quickly found out this was not going to be an ordinary gray druse….it was gray bubbly druse with alot of different colors added to it….
…and there was so much dust covering many of the druse chunks, that I really had no idea until after I got home and began cleaning them off a few days later, what I really had found inside that pocket. Lets just say I`m examining things I pull out of pockets, a little closer these days…
…and after clearing away alot of the loose stuff up front, and looking closer into the pocket that was stuffed with chunks of druse, in between I could see what appeared to be some frosted poker chips...
…and before too long, I was also seeing some orange dogtooth crystals, small ones…like the ones Docia uses to create gemstone Christmas trees with…she uses them as ornaments on the trees….and this is usually a good sign that you have found a dogtooth crystal pocket and sometimes the small ones lead to bigger ones….
….if you scroll back up and look at that big chunk in the front of the pocket at the base of it, this is it up above, turned over and covered with bigger dogtooth crystal points….and here are some of the smaller ones I found before I found this one….
…and here is a close up of the larger one that was anchoring the front base of the pocket once again….
I pulled alot of little dogtooths out as well as a lot of druse plates and chunks…never seen so much druse that was twisty and turned and bubbled up like this stuff was…and lots of different colors all over…one side would be completely gray and bubbley and the other side might be yellow or orange or red or a combination of all three colors on gray….def pretty and different.
As I got closer to the back of the pocket, I found more plates waiting on me…
…and some more crystals lurking inside and between the plates and chunks as well….
…here is a photo of some of the crystals I pulled out of there…I was laying them down on these white cloths as I removed them from the pocket…
…and here is another plate that I pulled out of the back of the pocket that had frosted poker chips attached to it as well….
…and a couple of the pretty druse pieces that I pulled from this pocket full of druse and poker chips…
…and soon the pocket was all cleaned out….it took much of my afternoon hours to clean out though.