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Stuff the Rio Doce staff picked out from the 2nd bucket...note the tourmaline, much larger rough than our 11 carat one, was left there for facetingOur original stones we picked to have cut from first bucket, Rio Doce...the 11 carat tourm, a smoky quartz, a garnet, a star ruby and a prasioliteSorry for the bad focus...holding the 11 carat tourmaline to show you the color...no eye visible flaws in the stoneTwo stunning facetable pieces...an 11 carat tourmaline from RD bucket 1, and a 78 carat lemon citrine from RD bucket 2Linville Mtn bucket...the real prize, a beautiful piece of banded Fluorite...this stuff should be fluorescent and turn into a stunning cab pendantLinville Mtn bucket, assorted small stuff...I think there are one or more moonstones in thereLinville Mtn bucket, emeralds...a few nice opaque chunksLinville Mtn bucket...citrine, amethyst and rose quartzLinville Mtn bucket, garnets, pyrite and micaLinville Mtn bucket, Aquamarine and ?? I think one of them is AmazoniteQuartz from Linville Mtn bucket...some very nice crystal pointsLinville Mtn bucket stuff...shiny green is Fuschite (green mica)Stuff from $35 Linville Mtn Gem Shop bucket...orange stuff is calcite, top stuff is moss agate, what is the black/brown stuff?Anything in these little bits? Can anyone identify any of these?Other notable stones from the second bucket, Rio DoceCloseup of emerald in mica schist from second bucket, Rio Doce...this one sparkles quite a bit, hope there's a lot more of it under the mica Emeralds from second bucket, Rio Doce....Facetable looking stuff from second bucket, Rio DoceOther assorted stuff and bits from first bucket, Rio Doce. Anyone see anything good? I picked up every little piece, no matter how tiny...Other stuff from first bucket, Rio Doce...Unakite, ruby in zosite (I think), sodalite (only one of the blue pieces)...forget the othersSmoky quartz and ? from first bucket, Rio Doce. I forget what the other stuff isRutilated quartz from first bucket, Rio Doce. Some of this stuff should cab up very nicelyLots of quartz, including some very clear small pieces and some nice crystal pointsAmazonite and (we think) some Aquamarine from the first bucket, Rio Doce. Pretty opaque or fractured, hope there may be some facetable stuff insideRose Quartz and Aventurine from first bucket, Rio DoceGarnet from first bucket, Rio Doce...hope the bigger unbroken pieces turn out to be facetableCitrine from first bucket, Rio DoceAmethyst from first bucket at Rio Doce...note the nice chunk of amethyst geode and the two deep purple pieces that might facet up nicelyEmeralds from first Rio Doce bucket. No transparent facetable stuff, but a ton of it. Some of it is just tiny little bits in mica schistSame facetable stuff, I think...the kinda triangular looking thing on the left is a huge "watermelon" tourmaline sliceStuff that looks facetable (or possibly so, in the case of some of the garnets) from our first bucket at the Rio DoceBig honkin' emerald cluster found by my wife Shawna! OK, so it isn't transparent emerald, but there's probably 100 carats of opaque emerald hereOur early haul as we take a break for lunchHere's a sifter/screener in the middle of searching for gems. Talk about fish in a barrel!Ava digging through our first bucket at Rio DoceMy daughter Ava standing next to a huge quartz crystal in the NC Minerals Museum
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