SMOKY HAWK MINE, SUMMER 2006, PAGE 2

Here are scenes of some of the first pegmatites exposed during 2006. Three pegmatites run across the length of the pit, for about 30 feet. An upper pegmatite produces light-colored amazonites. The lower two pegmatites, as deep as 35 feet, run one above the other, separated by between two and four feet. Both have produced excellent-colored amazonites with smoky quartz combination specimens. This is our second season of mining the same three pegmatites, and it appears we have one season remaining.

A large pegmatite shows under the cap rocks above my head. This peg only produced light-color amazonites with a few smoky crystals.	Using the rock bucket to cut through decomposing granite.	Ron Boyd working one of the first good amazonite pegmatites of 2006. It produced mostly small single amazonites.
I'm examining the first open-cavity pocket for 2006 in the excavation floor; the Coffee Pot Pocket.	A very small pocket, 8" x 8" x 4", but open space usually means some intact specimens.	A nice combination piece with goethite capping the smoky quartz from the Coffee Pot.
Another good pocket on the same pegmatite a few feet away, Pocket 06-012.	George Quist, our track hoe operator, examines an open pocket exposed by the bucket.	An encouraging crystal pocket, but like many of the small pockets, it only produced one small combination specimen.

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