FMF Minerals Gallery

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A bunch of singles uncleaned..sure to be a few enhydros (Author: Jason)

A bunch of singles uncleaned..sure

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another cool small one (Author: Jason)

another cool small one

another one with a small contact point with the whole piece surrounded and covered with crystals and druz (Author: Jason)

another one with a small contact p

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Big plate-uncleaned/black manganese coating on crystals (Author: Jason)

Big plate-uncleaned/black manganes

Bigger crystal (Author: Jason)

Bigger crystal

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Bubble is gone hidden somewhere inside the crystal..just a slight tilt back and here it comes again..could play with this for hours (Author: Jason)

Bubble is gone hidden somewhere in

buckets soaking..need more tubs and buckets. (Author: Jason)

buckets soaking..need more tubs an

Cleaned plate of smokey/amethyst crystal plate(light purple in some of the crystals. This will be a cool piece as the main crystals will be completely surrounded by snow white druzy. There is still some manganese that I need to get off with acid (Author: Jason)

Cleaned plate of smokey/amethyst c

Contact zone between the peg and host rock...err..host dirt (Author: Jason)

Contact zone between the peg and h

different graves rutile (Author: Jason)

different graves rutile

Digging under and next to core (Author: Jason)

Digging under and next to core

Digging underneath the quartz core (Author: Jason)

Digging underneath the quartz core

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Good single crystal on a bed of druzy quartz. You can see on the right side where another crystal had grown up against it..I wonder where that one is...hmmmm (Author: Jason)

Good single crystal on a bed of dr

Graves Mtn. rutile self collected (Author: Jason)

Graves Mtn. rutile self collected

Great blue flash (Author: Jason)

Great blue flash

Hard to see but my mattock head is resting on the quartz core (Author: Jason)

Hard to see but my mattock head is

Here are mica books another good sign that tells you are near..very near (Author: Jason)

Here are mica books another good s

Here are the big mica books which let you know you are in the right spot. Some of these get huge (Author: Jason)

Here are the big mica books which

Here is a pic of the vein. it’s very decomposed(thank god). The crystals tend to be found in plates about 4 inches from the boundry of white clay, directly in the middle of the black area. (Author: Jason)

Here is a pic of the vein. it&rsq

Here is a piece of facet grade that was broken off a crystal. My buddy Robert Kyle found this laying on the tailings. If I remember it’s 22 carats and all natural. it will only cut about a 4 carat stone because of the way it’s shaped with the horns and all (Author: Jason)

Here is a piece of facet grade tha

Here is a smokey from the same location that I have(did not get on this dig) that has an enhydro (gas bubble inliquid)inclusion. Pretty cool spec. (Author: Jason)

Here is a smokey from the same loc

Here is aa ammy with an enhydo(gas bubble in fluid) inclusion. This one is not as good as the next crystal(smokey) as it only moves a fraction of an inch. the bubble is bigger but moves less. Tip ia also damaged (Author: Jason)

Here is aa ammy with an enhydo(gas

Here is one I really like. There seems to be quite a few of these. They have a small contact point and the whole rest of the piece is covered by crystals and druzy. it’s a porcupine piece. they remind me of those Brazilian amethyst specs. that are completely covered by crystals except for the base..what are those called is it "cathedral " well maybe not I don’t remember. I will have to look it up (Author: Jason)

Here is one I really like. There

Here is one we found 2 weeks ago. it has a real bad dirt staining on it which I can only guess measn it was close to the surface or contact zone of the peg..notice the blue facet area on it (Author: Jason)

Here is one we found 2 weeks ago.

Here is some schrol which also lets you know you are getting somewhat clost to a beryl producing area. i have noticed that they tend to point towards the higher minerialized areas. sort of like a street sign saying..go here...go here.. (Author: Jason)

Here is some schrol which also let

Here is that crystal in the next pic still in the wall. We must have knocked out the middle of it with tyhe shovel.(my finger is pointing to it) (Author: Jason)

Here is that crystal in the next p

Here is the one that was in the wall. It’s missing the middle though but it’s terminated at least. We about scraped this one up with the backhoe(sample digging this day) (Author: Jason)

Here is the one that was in the wa

Here is the original mudball. i didn’t mess with it until I brought it home. i knw it had to be something good (Author: Jason)

Here is the original mudball. i d

Here is the path to the peg (Author: Jason)

Here is the path to the peg

Hogg mine aquamarine beryl Rodney Moore collection (Author: Jason)

Hogg mine aquamarine beryl Rodney

Hogg Mine aquamarine self collected cut by Dave gronki (Author: Jason)

Hogg Mine aquamarine self collecte

Hogg mine self collected from peg core wall zone (Author: Jason)

Hogg mine self collected from peg

I am in the process of cutting the bottom of this matrix piece so it form a base to sit right for display purposes. i will take my time on this one. No slab saw or rock vise I have to use a tile saw. (Author: Jason)

I am in the process of cutting the

I tried to capture the bubble moving with multiple pictures. This is a real good spec. as the bubble moves over an inch and is close to the surface so is easily seen. (Author: Jason)

I tried to capture the bubble movi

Jackson crossroads ammy (Author: Jason)

Jackson crossroads ammy

Jackson crossroads Rodney Moore collection (Author: Jason)

Jackson crossroads Rodney Moore co

My whole back porch full of crystal and crystals plates..mostly smokey’s but some will be ammy’s and a few of the larger plates tend to have a light purple color in some of them (Author: Jason)

My whole back porch full of crysta

Nearing the bottom where the vein starts to peter out..still finding druz here but no more large crystals. (Author: Jason)

Nearing the bottom where the vein

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Nice mini clusters..these tend to have smokey or ammy phantoms in them and they sit real well on a shelf or desk-uncleaned (Author: Jason)

Nice mini clusters..these tend to

One we found last weekend with very small green facet grade on the right side..not enough to cut anything..(we didn’t find much this day as we were trying some sample digging) (Author: Jason)

One we found last weekend with ver

Same Cleaned plate of smokey/amethyst(some light purple in some of the crystals) (Author: Jason)

Same Cleaned plate of smokey/amet

Still needs cleaning finger for size comparison (Author: Jason)

Still needs cleaning finger for si

This is a different colored kaolin area/k-spar. When you see this you know you are in an area of highwer minerization. A lot of times these little areas form a diamond shape for some reason and right blow them you are almost guaranteed to find beryl...hmm..strange (Author: Jason)

This is a different colored kaolin

This is another cool find that I found the same day as the crystal above. This is one of my individual favorites from there. it;’s pretty unique for JXR. it has a little of everything except maybe an enhydro...It has a smokey phantom, growth lines(looks like zebra stripes), purple "flame"(color zoning that looks like wisp or flames of purple), and a cool little mini crystal that formed completely inside of the main crystal. The little minicrystal inside looks nicely formed with all it’s z and r faces but no m faces..hmm..strange never found one of these before (Author: Jason)

This is another cool find that I f

This is the same crystal as the pic above. You can see the smokey phantom and the purple " flame" in this pic. The small mini crystal that is inside this crystal is hard to see due to light refraction but it’s toward the bottom right. (Author: Jason)

This is the same
flame" in th

This lone we dug out last weekend notice the facet lines running thorough it. To bad it didn’t just cool a little slower.(didn’t find much this is from sample hole) (Author: Jason)

This lone we dug out last weekend

This one turned out purple..I knew thay all couldn’t mostly be smokey (Author: Jason)

This one turned out purple..I knew

Uncleaned crystal plate specimen same one as the last two pics but this is before the acid bath (Author: Jason)

Uncleaned crystal plate specimen s

uncleaned/black managanese coating on crystals-finger for size comparison (Author: Jason)

uncleaned/black managanese coating

uncleaned/black manganese coating on crystals- (Author: Jason)

uncleaned/black manganese coating

uncleaned/black manganese coating on crystals (Author: Jason)

uncleaned/black manganese coating

We found this crystal right ontop of the core. It has facet grade shot through it. We never found the other half it has to be in the tailings somewhere. (Author: Jason)

We found this crystal right ontop

You can easily see the delieation between surrounding host rock/dirt(really dirt) and the crystal vein. It trends downwards at about an 50 degree angle. Why do they always tend to go downwards..jeez..that means more and harder digging (Author: Jason)

You can easily see the delieation