The week before last, a day trip, check out a few prospects. Back to where I found the Beryl's, back into the hole, digging, into the sunlight to comb through the rock, break it up, look for those gemmy bits of green and blue...
When, finally, reaching into the hole I pull out this:
an inch and a half wide at the base, maybe 3 inches high, the color is hidden, it will need some work but an amazing specimen, ...
It will need polishing to see if there are any translucent bits, but all that time I've been wasting looking for those small shards when dig deeper and there are pieces like this?
Back to the hole...