Grey day, fine walk up coffee creek...
The higher you go, the more interesting the mineralization...
A curiously crystallized quartz boulder.
Large Dogstooth Spar (Calcite) crystals coating the bottom of a boulder, many were a couple of inches in length. They'd need the weathering to be cleaned off to attractive...
In the distance the Ferry making it's way from Crawford Bay to Balfour.
A lot of Elk and Deer tracks, and so naturally a rather large Cougar Track...
Waterfall...
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And restless (always), getting out and searching the roadcuts for minerals of interest...training the eye...
large (2") Feldspar crystal in Granitic...some of the intrusions are made up of masses of these, large, good places to look for other large crystals...
coppery colored fools gold in quartz (note the iron, good mineralization, worth grinding & checking for gold...)
More Pyrites.
More pyrites in mica and quartz...
Digging in a decomposed vein of clay, or possibly a pocket, the clay beneath the top was a brilliant white, perfect environment to find crystals. I found nothing.
Deep blue, azure, in Mica Schist, likely copper, photo is a bit blurry (sorry, blame camera)
...and, after the minerals in the schist decay there's a light recombination of the minerals, beautiful pale blue, turquoise, light - crumbles away in your fingers, but shaped like a coral or a brain, maybe a biological agent?
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Some Photos from the Daughter's Visit. We explored, the old abandoned Marble Quarry, the Ferry to Proctor, the Ferry over then down to Creston, back over the pass, metal detected the beach (only find: A lead fishing weight), hung out at Oso, generally a laid back vacation, the weather not (yet) good enough to accommodate my prospecting interests (to her immense relief, I'm sure....)
The Graffiti makes a great space even better, and it's constantly renewed...
The Glass House. Always wanted to stop, finally did, it wasn't open...The Story goes that they bottles were from a funeral home - they all held embalming fluid. Curious.
An old mine shaft beside the road, a few of these, only to discover I hadn't packed a flashlight. Grrr!!!...I need to be a little better prepared...
And this, a favorite house on the way out of Nelson, creative use of a rockslide, a shame it's so close to the highway...
And waiting for the roads to be cleared at the top of the Kootenay Pass...still a good 10 feet of snow at the higher elevations...
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Not my images, but an attractive collection of Quartz, Amethyst and Smoky Phantoms.
And below, rutilated and other inclusions...
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