{"id":7591,"date":"2014-12-19T04:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T04:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2024-07-01T03:36:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T03:36:57","slug":"pretty-sunrise-on-the-way-to-eminence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=7591","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Sunrise on the way to MFQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wasn`t on call Saturday the 29th of November, so Missy and I loaded up early in the morning and headed to MFQ, stopping off in Rolla to fuel up. As soon as I got out of the truck, I noticed the beautiful sunrise in the eastern skies and while the pump was operating, I grabbed a couple of quick images, in case it fizzled out on down 44……<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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…however, not only did it not fizzle out, it was even prettier as I traveled on….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Missy and I arrived at the quarry about 7:30 am, temps were about 50 degrees, cloudy skies with a promise for clearing off and warming up a bit. I changed into my boots and grabbed my mini mattox and walked the wall to survey it… and I noticed soon after that there were several pockets with great potential up on the wall just out of my reach, so I called my buddy who lives down there and asked him if he had a ladder I could borrow…about twenty minutes later, he pulled up and delivered a nice sturdy step ladder to me…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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...and I laddered the wall right below the pockets and began working them from left to right. Many of the pockets had some beautiful chocolate brown druse inside them…the first three pockets I pulled plate after plate of druse out. If only I had a hydraulic lift bucket truck, I could have accessed the potential looking pockets way up high on the wall, several appeared to be very nice looking, in the top third of the photo below….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I was able to brace the ladder well in the rocks below and then climb up to the top…and that pocket at the top in the next photo, looked very promising….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and boy let me tell you, it was full of some nice dark colored poker chips, some dogtooth crystals, and some nice plates of chocolate colored druse too….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and as I worked it even more, it kept expanding….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and I pulled some gorgeous dogtooth crystals out of that ever expanding pocket…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…I filled four bags full of wrapped plates and clusters, loaded up the ladder and returned it, then headed home, exhausted but very happy.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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