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 Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:52 pm
 for serious. that's FRICKIN' HUGE!
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:28 am
Yes, it is. ^8^
And that is also one of my favorite ones to. "Amethyst"
It forms in viens or tubes of molten material where the crystals form inside, if I remember correctly.
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:57 am
@ Jello - Thanks for that link. Wow that IS huge. And beautiful. I love amethyst. But who doesn't, right?!
@ Giesta - Thanks for that crystal formation info. That's fabulous that you actually find geodes. There are gems in the NC mts -- including diamonds, gold, emeralds -- but nothing much around where I live. I ought to know. I dig in it often enough.
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:37 pm
Yeah, we have a little here but not a lot of the really "Valuable Ones" mostly middle to low grade stuff. Guartz and such, but in the Smokey Mountains they have the really nice stuff. ^8^
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:57 am
Quartz crystals may not be considered "valuable" but they're beautiful. A lot of the ones I see for sale come from Arkansas. You're lucky you find them where you are too.
I saw a whole bunch of garnets in the giant rocks in NYC Central Park. The glacier dropped some interesting boulders when it retreated at the end of the last Ice Age.
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:11 am
Most of the guartz I see is basic kind that grows on pourious rock like gravel. (We have a gravel digging guarry in my arear).
Usually the white milky colored kind and somtimes yellow guartz to from where the silt in the gravel pits had gathered as the guartz was formed.
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:33 am
Giesta Yes, it is. ^8^ And that is also one of my favorite ones to. "Amethyst" It forms in viens or tubes of molten material where the crystals form inside, if I remember correctly. iopgu
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:35 am
Harvey_Kinkle Quartz crystals may not be considered "valuable" but they're beautiful. A lot of the ones I see for sale come from Arkansas. You're lucky you find them where you are too. I saw a whole bunch of garnets in the giant rocks in NYC Central Park. The glacier dropped some interesting boulders when it retreated at the end of the last Ice Age. yuxoz[xzcv
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:36 am
jellowind for serious. that's FRICKIN' HUGE! fgsuaovbso
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:42 pm
Also, ^8^ I have many more new pictures including a few mandalas. ^8^
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:37 am
Pictures ad mandalas that YOU drew? I always like to see those. Pls post when you have time and feel like it. And maybe in XP too where our other pals can enjoy them.
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:15 pm
Sadly not what Ive drawn, but they are very pretty. They are (Fractal) Mandalas, they are basically a pattern that repeats in a fractional way. (1/4ths or 1/2ths of an inch or something like that.) 
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:57 pm
*drools*
It's like looking into the greatest kaleidoscope ever made.
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:14 pm
Yup, and its not even a really good one. Here is a more intracate ones that I have seen. 
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:48 am
Thanks giesta. They're both wonderful. What happy colors.
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