Sabre52
Cave Dweller
Me and my gal, Rosie
Member since August 2005
Posts: 20,487
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 4, 2014 7:51:14 GMT -5
Howdy folks, This is another hunk from the Holy Grail tailings in a new color. Slightly overexposed but the darker parts are grape purple. Looked OK on the outside but really badly fractured inside. Don't know if I can even get a cab from the four slabs I got. Some of the stuff from this pit is solid and some horribly fractured almost like Morgan Hill. Does not look like blasting damage, so I can only surmise the fractured stuff was weathered surface exposures of the vein that were bulldozed away so the old miners could get at the good stuff. Sure must have been pretty seeing all those colors when the stuff was first brought to light. Got to see that at Stone Canyon one time and it was breathtaking.....Mel
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Post by snowmom on Jul 5, 2014 5:27:55 GMT -5
that's really a complex pattern... very interesting stuff. grape purple? yum!
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