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The effort to widen the W/L pit top area bench went well. As anticipated, the area did not not produce much beryl crystal and what was found was common beryl. Because the area was so barren of beryl and the peg was consistently of poor quality, we ...
BERYL CRYSTAL WITH MATRIX,1.5 X 3.06” TALL BERYL CRYSTAL IN MATRIX,1.62” X 1.38” TALL Well just when I thought the new location of the Wayne/Lee pit road was set it changed. The plan was to move the road from the pit side to the wall side ...
BERYL CRYSTAL, 1” X 1.38” X 2.38” TALLBERYL CRYSTAL, 1.62” X 1.85” X 3.53” TALL We have been getting a lot of rain here in New Hampshire. The rain has caused us to deal with other tasks as repairing the washed out areas on the mine ...
This year was Connecticut Mineral Club’s 5th outing to the Tripp Mine. Each year the outing gets better and Lee & Wayne put more work into it. For me it is just a great party. When a club comes to the Tripp Mine, I prep one of the (new blast ...
Gilsum NH show - looking north The Gilsum rock show held in Gilsum NH next door to Alstead NH and just down the street from the Toveco Mines, so to speak. I have been attending this event for many years and this year’s show is one of the best ...
1.25" X 1.88" tall Heliodor crystal, 2009, Tripp Mine A miner must learn to eat a lot of humble pie. As posted in the last blog we were into a lot of very poor quality feldspar and there was a large pod of good quartz with feldspar crystals. To ...
Beryl crystal that cracked out of the quartz matrix nicely We finished the mine clean up at the end of May. It’s surprising how much waste rock we stored in the mine working area. In retrospect last year’s fuel cost made us very creative in ...
Vermont Museum of Mining and Minerals in Grafton VT One person walking the talk is Sue Hadden, which started her third year as owner and promoter of the Vermont Museum of Mining and Minerals in Grafton VT. I just put a mineral & lapidary display in ...
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