{"id":2738,"date":"2012-06-16T02:09:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T02:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwjrocks.com\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2013-06-17T03:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T03:52:40","slug":"another-dogtooth-pocket-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=2738","title":{"rendered":"Another Dogtooth Pocket Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

After returning from the Eureka Fluorite Mine on Sunday, June 3rd, I had a hankering to get back down to the secret spot and see if I could find some more poker chip pockets, so Missy and I waited til 3 pm Wednesday afternoon and then headed down for a few hours of exploration. We arrived about 5 pm and I walked over to the last pocket I had located, next to the waterhole and started scratching around closer to the pile of rocks nearby. Something just called to me and sure enough, within a few minutes, I found something worth exploring further….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…I had no sooner started digging down when it appeared that I was in the right place at the right time….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…first thing I pulled out are these two druse plates….always a good sign of a pocket nearby….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…not that I needed any guidance in that respect, with previously dug pockets only mere inches away from me….I dug down some more and started finding crystals and plates….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and pretty soon after, yet another hole opens up….my day is becoming more interesting by the minute…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and pretty soon plates and crystals were popping up all over the place…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…but before I could get really excited….yet another pocket opened up just about eight inches away….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…so I started working it as well….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and it started producing crystals and plates too….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…pretty soon a top plate was exposed and clearly there was a pocket underneath it…so I decided to explore more there….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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….pretty soon the pockets were joined together and expanding even more….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and pretty soon yet another hole opened up on me…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and this pocket opened up with a seam of calcite apparent…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and after working this hole a while, it lead me to the side and to yet another shallow pocket of crystals….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…or at least, what I thought was going to be a shallow pocket….as it turned out, it was a deep pocket initially and had to be chipped into to access it….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…I grabbed my four pound hammer and chisel and dug in, and opened up a nice opening pretty quickly…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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….a couple of really pretty druse plates popped out first…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and this nice pocket opened up behind the druse plates….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…I reached in and the first thing I pulled out was this beautiful poker chip combo….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and behind it was this nice pocket full of poker chip crystals seen inside…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and the pocket widened out a bit…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and pretty soon it was apparent that I had a lot of potential for pockets to open up all over the small space I was working in….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…however, I was running out of energy and light, so I decided after bagging up this pile of crystals, to go upstairs and see if I could find some more druse plates before my sunlight ran out….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…so I grabbed a couple of extra bags and my mattox and headed across to the claybed road going up to the druse plates area….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…as I got to another waterhole area, that had dried up from the droughty heat in the past couple of weeks, I noticed some tall weeds that appeared to have deep roots going into a rocky dome area…I stopped to check it and it sounded hollow, so I returned to my truck to get my hammer and chisel. I returned to the hollow sounding dome and started chiseling my way in….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…pretty soon I had found a hole that led to a deeper hole and possible pocket…I reached down inside the deeper hole and pulled out some poker chip crystals….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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..it was obvious, after reaching deep down, it was going to take a lot more energy to excavate my way into this pocket from the hole, so I decided to see if I could find a back way in from the top with my hammer and chisel….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…pretty soon I had found a soft spot and started digging down….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and looking inside, I spotted what appeared to be a poker chip crystal underneath….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and pulled out to be what was no ordinary poker chip crystal….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…I decided after exploring a little further and coming up with nothing more, to leave it for yet another trip. Missy and I packed up and left as the sun was setting most beautifully…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and got better on the way home….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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