Dont know the name of the rd, on Huck Hill, its most of the way up, the area is quite settled into with mcmansions, if you go into that lot cut off rt 44 for the canton amethyst, the ledge to the right, looking in, is quite productive, but not the only veins in that lot. if you make it into the woods off silvermine acres, tailings start almost in the houses backyard, I prefer collecting further up the stream, out of sight. the exposed vein seems to follow the stream up north about 50 yrds. tough rock solid quartz! I have this really cool green garnet from up in Peoples forest. I found an old cut in the steep hills east, I have to find that place again, map it, and explore. going out to ski sundown, there are two trailheads, just before the really sharp corner. the trail north has leatherrock? while the trail south has alot of staurolite and garnets, on the ridges left of the trail. another place id like to bring some steel. Another good garnet location I will get the excact location on, is west of rt. 8, in the hills before tuckers/mass line, matter of fact, there is a cool red agate location from nyguidecollecting bluebook 20 mins north from there,and a green actinolite vein about a mile back south from tuckers. this one I can explain easily. park in the north end/mass side of the res, then cross the field directly across rt. 8 fom the res entrance and head up to the hanging cliffs! go as far up the rubble as you can till you meet the cliff face. found some cool actinolite crystals here, that Ive etched out of calcite. there are a few pockets and some diggins.
found some great quartz crystals recently, just cant bring myself to give up the locale! would really like to spend some time with a ct. geologist, and get a clue? on some things, before xmas. anyways heres some cool ct quartz! pic 1, the freeze blew a pocket wall apart, freezing the pocket mud into rock solid peanut butter! still it looked and tasted just like the arkansas brand! didnt want to put directly into water, for fear of more cracking. so I left my pack indoors for the night, turning my pack into a (coffee filter) for the water in the mud as it thawed over the carpet all night. the next day it reached room temp and I was able to dissolve the mudmass with water in a screen, pic 2 I am a lucky dog! pic 3 a little muriatic, cleans the rust, showing green inclusions and well defined phantoms!
Yeah ct. minerals are like Frank Fappa, the best band you never heard!
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