{"id":917,"date":"2011-09-10T06:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T06:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwjrocks.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2016-03-06T05:39:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T05:39:21","slug":"pocket-expansion-mid-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Expansion Mid May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy are my hands tired…well actually my fingers and thumb joints are tired and my hands are sore, muscle wise…Docia and I met at the secret spot yesterday afternoon with the idea of expanding that pocket she found last Saturday. We decided to tackle it in ” Mike Streeter ” style, hard rock mining with sledge hammers and chisels. I wish now we had opted for a rock saw, lol.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is how the pocket looked last week when Debra, Denise, and Dora were with us….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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and here it is after Docia and I pounded on it with the sledges and chisels once again yesterday….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…we found a few goodies, but the really nice ones were glued in, seemed like. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 we did leave a few pockets for the next time when armed with better tools….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and the large center one is still there as well….<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…after two hours of pounding hard rock tho, we decided to check for pockets elsewhere…yes, easier to find pockets, lol.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Docia went left and I went right and we both located some nice potential areas fast…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…she started finding pockets and called me to come over and help her open them up…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…here is one pocket opening up on the right side of the lighter colored shade of gravel and dirt…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…since it looked like everything was moving to the right side, I cleaned off more to the right and she went left more…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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..and I found more potential to the right and she found more potential on the left side…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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..that little white spot of calcite up on the left side of the pocket she found, indicates to us another potential pocket in that area…which she found a few min later…but first we decided to see how big this one was, and started removing loose crystals from the front of it…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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..and then we looked inside it….<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and my, oh my, pretty sparkly druse plates and poker chips were what we saw inside. So with that motivation, Docia started clearing more the left and found yet another pocket….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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..and I went to the right side and found two more pockets, that combined into a wide pocket…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…looking inside Docia`s new pocket, we saw several large and loose poker chips and some small druse plates…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…I turned on my flash and shot again and its goodies as far as you can see…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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..and as it turned out, it was quite a ways in there full of loose goodies…we were both reaching almost to our shoulders, well past our elbows, into the pocket and downward no less. While she worked on retrieving loose crystals and plates from her pocket, I worked on the two on my side as well…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…the one on the left showing signs of some nice stuff…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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..and it eventually tied in with the first pocket she found up there as well…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…her pocket once cleared of the goodies in front, started looking even deeper….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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….and as we contemplated exploring further, we started hearing the rumblings of thunder and decided to stop there….as soon as I can this afternoon, I will clean up some of my plates and chips and get some more photos posted.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are some of my finds from the pockets….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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and the following two images show a poker chip we pulled out of one of the pockets with a raspberry tint to it….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…those are all I have til the next time we visit the spot again and find out if we can extract some more goodies…wont be doing anything til all this severe weather stops coming around…my prayers are with the folks of southwest Missouri who were devastated last night with a very destructive EF-4 tornado in the Joplin area…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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