RE: Mineral Mondays #54 A Trip To The Mohawk Mine
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These stones are incredibly beautiful with strong colours! Amazing how people know where to find them inside the mountains.
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Finding the stones is actually fairly easy, you just follow the vein until you hit an open area big enough for crystals to form. Keeping them intact is the challenge. Miners could care less about the crystals. They only care about the ore, grinding it up and pulling out the valuable minerals. That's good and bad though because often times it means they either leave the crystals in place or when they mine them they will toss them aside onto the tailings piles for us rockhounds to collect. I just wish I could get some bigger crystals!