{"id":11389,"date":"2018-08-05T06:23:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T06:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2024-10-24T02:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T02:28:18","slug":"three-weeks-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=11389","title":{"rendered":"Three Weeks in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided I was going to drive down to the Park Hills Show on Sunday morning…I wanted to see if I could find some of those new agates out on the market, found in the country of Madagascar and some more of the chalcopyrite-bladed barite-sphalerite ball pieces found in the Washington County Quarry. Since I knew that would be at least half a day wandering around looking at everything and visiting with my dealer friend Johnny B from Mt Ida, who is always there, I decided to drive back to the Secret Spot Quarry on Saturday June 9th and see what else I could find there. We were up before the crack of dawn thanks to my new job, which requires me to get up at 4 am these days to get ready to go to work…and about fifteen miles down the road,\u00a0 I looked back and saw the beautiful sunrise….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and fifteen minutes later, the sunrise only deepened and got better….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and then ten minutes later, we saw a beautiful rainbow…I was thinking, man what are we going to see next ??!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…there were a few scattered thunderstorms on the radar before leaving the house, but going by the way they were moving on radar, it appeared they would miss the quarry, so I wasn`t too worried about getting wet this morning…soon after arriving about 7 am, it was clear that some were going by just east of us…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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and another storm passing by east of us about an hour later….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and a few hours later, I heard some thunder and figured maybe we might get grazed by this one…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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and as it was, it came right over the top of us and I decided to head on over to my buddy Dave`s house…he notified me that he had purchased an old collection of Viburnum Trend minerals so I decided to go see what he had…as we pulled into his drive, I looked east and saw another storm brewing…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…this storm apparently hit the Park Hills area and paid everyone at the show there a visit, high winds, hail, and hard rain for about 90 minutes, from what I heard the next day when I was there visiting with everyone. Dave had quite a few nice crystals and minerals in the collection he purchased from a retired miner, nice ones that had been collected at least 75 years ago…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I was gonna crop this one off at the bottom of the image, then noticed Lola down there and decided to leave it…she is David`s guard dog for his Mom and a very pretty German Shepherd too. Those are some unique lead cube clusters above on the table, some with chalcopyrites attached. Closeup of the big one in the next two images….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and some gorgeous never seen before pyrites with some deep reds, oranges, and gold colors in them, from the Casteel Mine, which rarely produces really pretty specimens…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and there were some stunning calcites in this collection as well…golden honey yellows and orange yellows as well as several smokeys from Brushy Creek Mine….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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