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So far it’s been a tough season. When started working the good Wayne/Lee mineralized area the excavator breaks down. And the excavator had to decide to go on vacation in the pit blocking the good mineralized area. Then a rare hurricane comes and ...
Have finished for now the lowering of the entrance road into the mine and the pit ramp road is in place. I spent way too much time on this infrastructure work. But it will pay off down the road. The pit de-watering has moved along. Because of the ...
Were done working the Clark mine for 2011. We might pump out one of the Clark pits to see what the previous miners did some time in the fall. For now the focus is on the Tripp Mine. I have made some progress in pumping the water out of the Tripp ...
The main effort has been working the Clark Mine. At this time, 2 blasts have been placed and the results have not been good. The peg feldspar is very poor quality and does not show any improvement. What has been found defiantly has not been worth ...
Toveco has started its 8th year working the Tripp & Clark Mine. This year we are starting the mining effort later then normal. The main reasons are weather, equipment repairs, lapidary / jewelry fabrication & sales. Because the Tripp mine’s pit ...
Toveco has finished the 7th mining season at the Tripp Mine. The 7th mining season will work out to be the second best to date. The 2006 season is still the best overall to date. For the 2010 season 90% of the effort was working the Wayne/Lee (W/L). ...
TRIPP MINE ROAD ENTRANCE OVERVIEW One of Toveco’s 2010 goals was to be working in the main pit this season. It’s not going to happen this year. This task will be pushed to the 2011 mining season. The main reason was the quality of the ...
early July field specimen The goal was to be into the pit by this time. We are not there. We did make some progress in lowering the Wayne/Lee cut (W/L). This area has been producing some very good beryl and is still doing so. The problem is that the ...
Rocko hanging out at the Tripp mine Toveco slowed down at the mine to get ready for the Gilsum Rock Swap. It was another great year for the Gilsum show with attendance around 5K. The Toveco Silent Auction was such a success that Lee is already ...
The good pegmatite at the W/L is still producing some good beryl crystal. The work of widening the W/L entrance road is complete. Now I am working on the pit ramp road from the W/L. This road is going over some poor Peg and into the tunnel that was ...
The mine operation is starting to run smoothly. We are now finding crystal and just might be onto a very good zone. What has held me behind is that Wayne & Lee have not been able to get much time in at the mine. Being so, I have been only processing ...
First, one of the water pumps went down, the new replacement pump did not work, and we are still with just one pump. Nevertheless, I am told a new replacement is on its way. Second, the excavator went down for 10 days. After hunting down the leeks, ...
2.33” X 1.5” X 2.12” HT. BERYL CRYSTAL, TRIPP MINE, WAYNE / LEE PIT, EARLY MAY 2010 First thing: A big THANKS for all that have come an visited me at my show venues and thanked me for putting up the Toveco blogs. I appreciate it. This ...
Now the Toveco crew knows the extent of the undercut and tunnel & why it was cut. We have excavated the tunnel roof off and blasted and excavated the overhang. During the end of October we spent most of the time making a cut into the east side ...
From the start of the Tripp Mine project, we were always talking about pumping the water out of the main pit at some point. From what I know now, I should have done this task from the start. That way I would have known about the tunnel and the ...
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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