tsa-la-tsi-s-gi gv-do-di ka-ne
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tsa-la-tsi-s-gi gv-do-di ka-ne dance
- with - snake
DANCES
WITH SNAKES
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Field Trip - Eminence, Missouri Continued That was something, wasn't it? That's not the end of the story, not at all! Within inches of the find of the day (assumed) were more specimens, obviously from the same pocket. That these wonderful specimens survived being blasted from their cool, dark sanctuary, was even more amazing. Here is the next piece of the pocket I found a few inches away...
I wasn't the only one finding great specimens though. James could be heard exclaiming "Oh MY Goodness" on a regular basis. Docia was busy filling her collecting bag with worthy specimens also. I had to take the specimen of the day straight to the truck and get it nestled into a safe place in the back seat. The day had hardly started! It wasn't long before James found his way to the near vicinity of where I found my prize. Soon we were both finding pieces of the same pocket scattered about the pile of rock, amazingly pristine for their rough birthing. Limonite spheres were found grown with double-terminated dog-tooth calcite as their nucleus, as well as grown around single points. We discovered boulders of calcite weighing in excess of 500 lbs, the faces showing a stacked poker-chip form, pockets and clusters of calcite, massive rhombohedra, and nails-head terminated crystals just about everywhere we looked. In the debris field from the latest blast there were perfect pockets of nails-head calcite crystals from several inches across to a foot or more in larger boulders. Calcite seemed to be everywhere! While exploring this blast field I came across another wonderful specimen of rhombohedral calcite. Opaque white with an area of transparent olive-green to one end and the bulk of the center of the mass was the most pretty pink I've seen in a calcite specimen. Note: this is the only piece we found like this, not another single piece of this was found.... I'm sure it was there, just buried in the rubble field. Notice that again, the specimen is on sandstone matrix.
I'm not through yet, there's more! After collecting for about an hour and a half to two hours, we took a short break back at the trucks and compared finds. Everyone thus far had found plenty of specimens to make them happy, especially me. After a 250 mile trip, this was very rewarding. We decided to continue collecting here for a while longer, as there was so much to look at. We had moved the trucks around to the edge of the blast debris field, as the walking was a bit easier and much more level.... At least that's what Docia said...
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