One of my favorite places to dig. Haven't been there in a couple of years now. Time to hit it again! That hillside is WAY steeper than it looks in video.
If you could find aqua like the picture in the thumbnail at the Ray, that would be something. The thumbnail pic looks like a Pakistani aqua? Anyway.....I dug there some back in the 70's and 80's and a little in the 90's and there was some good stuff found there especially before all the newer regulations. The best ones were very translucent with sections of transparency in delicate blues and greenish blue. We found smaller examples with nearly transparent quality. However most people who went to the Ray were so focused on finding beryl that they overlooked the other great minerals to be found like columbite, garnet, tourmaline and a host of other rarer minerals. I'm to old and physically unable to hike up there now but those days were fun. Glad to see that the place is still allowing collecting even if its in a limited capacity. So many of the older sites are either off limit or completely gone in some cases now. Some great stuff has come out of North Carolina from abandoned quarries to plowed fields to road construction there have been countless specimens of minerals found that grace the shelves of museums and private collections all over the world.
A nice, relaxing day looking for crystals...👍👍
One of my favorite places to dig. Haven't been there in a couple of years now. Time to hit it again! That hillside is WAY steeper than it looks in video.
If you could find aqua like the picture in the thumbnail at the Ray, that would be something. The thumbnail pic looks like a Pakistani aqua? Anyway.....I dug there some back in the 70's and 80's and a little in the 90's and there was some good stuff found there especially before all the newer regulations. The best ones were very translucent with sections of transparency in delicate blues and greenish blue. We found smaller examples with nearly transparent quality. However most people who went to the Ray were so focused on finding beryl that they overlooked the other great minerals to be found like columbite, garnet, tourmaline and a host of other rarer minerals. I'm to old and physically unable to hike up there now but those days were fun. Glad to see that the place is still allowing collecting even if its in a limited capacity. So many of the older sites are either off limit or completely gone in some cases now. Some great stuff has come out of North Carolina from abandoned quarries to plowed fields to road construction there have been countless specimens of minerals found that grace the shelves of museums and private collections all over the world.
Wow! I wanna see that place. But where's all the pools of water it talked about on the sign 🤔
Love your videos, the close-ups are a little blurry.