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 Post subject: crystal mine LaGrange, GA
PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:28 pm 
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The crystal mine in LaGrange, GA will be open again for the first time in a long time. This thursday(New Years) and this Sat. the 3rd. Large single water clear quartz crystals(some tessin). You can see some pics of the mine in the video under MINERS CORNER-mining/science video. This is a great dig for kids as the crystals are easy to find.

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Here are a some of the crystals I collected this last weekend at the crystal mine. It's like a mini Mt. Ida but without the big clusters.

Nice pile of uncleaned crystals. Have to clean them this week
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Here are a few that i have cleaned so far. There are a couple of doubly terminated ones toward the back.
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I was unsure what "tessin" referred to, so I googled it and was pleasantly surprised to find this page:

http://www.quartzpage.de/crs_habits.html

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The quartz page is killer..I printed the whole thing out and have it in my reference material..good stuff

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