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A deeper view into the mine
the specifics of various minerals as they appear in the rock; pure delight and the kid in him comes out the moment gems start flowing.
I also took a number of great pictures of Jeff and Sean relaxing in white plastic chairs in the mid-afternoon October light. With a dozen people around, Jeff has a lot on his mind. He seems most at ease with Sean. Best photos ever of Jeff at his mine. Gem mining stills and video were hard to get today of actual gem mining. Jeff had two scientists in attendance and people from Maine’s new gem museum, The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum.
Because of the depth of the pocket on the left, whoever was pulling material out literally had to crawl halfway in to excavate the pocket. The lady geologist from Spain had a thick head of black curly hair. She was petite and by the time she and all of her hair got into the deeper part of the pocket, it was hard to see beyond her.. The New Hampshire scientist had short hair and a base ball cap. I was able to get a few i-Phone videos while he was working.
In the far left pocket area were a series of large smokey gray quartz crystals. This is where most of the early mining action was.
On the right side Ann Marie from the Maine Mineral and Gem Mu- seum spent most of the morning digging. On the right side there was more room for filming because the opening was larger. Ann Marie had what seemed like vast quantities of pocket material, a fine granola like mix of feldspar, pastel green tourmaline, finely chopped pink tourmaline and bluish cleavelandite. Occasionally there were pieces of gemmy green
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