Brandon Boyd's Photo Gallery
382-W17Quartz (Var: Amethyst) SiO2 , Quartz (Var: Chalcedony) SiO2
Dimensions: 2 inches x 3 inches x 1 inches
Field of View: 6 inches
My very first amethyst out of hard rock!
587-47AQuartz (Var: Chalcedony) SiO2 , Quartz SiO2 , Calcite CaCO3 , Goethite α-Fe3+O(OH)
Dimensions: 6 inches x 4 inches x 3 inches
Field of View: 8 inches
Straight out of hard rock. I broke this open in the field and just couldn't stop staring at it. There is a lot going on in here!
EW5-FX3Quartz (Var: Amethyst) SiO2 , Quartz SiO2
Dimensions: 3 inches x 3 inches x 3 inches
Field of View: 6 inches
Largest Crystal Size: 6 mm
This is not from the main pit but from a spot I found wondering around on some bike trails. After I cleaned this and soaked it, the purple became obvious. I hope I'm close to a big hollow purple beauty.
0XU-QECQuartz SiO2
Dimensions: 3 inches x 3 inches x 2 inches
Field of View: 8 inches
This is a surface mine specimen of mostly broken quartz points. There are four terminated quartz crystals that survived the land slide in which rubble I found this piece in.
MMJ-742Quartz SiO2
Field of View: 12 inches
An assortment of terminated quartz points from among the trees under, what I believe to be the spruce claim boundaries.
X9G-JTUCalcite CaCO3
Dimensions: 1 inches x .75 inches x .25 inches
Field of View: 8 inches
Calcite with a smaller calcite growing at a 90 degree angle. Found in the pit at Walker Valley, Skagit county, WA
AH7-9CVCalcite CaCO3 , Goethite α-Fe3+O(OH) , Siderite FeCO3
Dimensions: 2 inches x 1 inches x 3 inches
Field of View: 4 inches
Popped a 50lb piece of andesite out of the wall and this was on the bottom side. Calcite on goethite rosettes with some siderite. The pit at Walker Vally, Skagit county, WA.
VT3-YREGoethite α-Fe3+O(OH) , Siderite FeCO3
Dimensions: 1 inches x 1 inches x 1 inches
Field of View: 6 inches
A small pocket of goethite with siderite on bottom center (green). Found in the pit at Walker Vally, Skagit County, WA.
F30-N6JGoethite α-Fe3+O(OH)
Dimensions: 1.5 inches x 1 inches x .5 inches
Field of View: 6 inches
Popped this stalactitic goethite out of it's "geode" that exposed in the wall of andesite at the geode pit in Walker Valley, Skagit County, WA
EHE-M5HSiderite FeCO3
Dimensions: 3 inches x 2 inches x 1 inches
Field of View: 4 inches
Largest Crystal Size: 2 mm
The other half of the geode with Calcite, Siderite and Hematite I found hard rocking in the geode pit at Walker Valley.
