It must be the most enjoyable trip we ever had to Vredendal! It was also the least productive, crystal-wise, because the miners have blasted since we were last there, and have destroyed many cliff faces. There were piles of rock-rubble where we've previously found beautiful crystals!
The chaos on the mine forced us to explore and we saw many beautiful flowers and new areas that we have never seen before. We found some real smoky crystals up to 1 kg and some crystals with lots of green chlorite inclusions. In total we found about 2 shoe boxes of crystals that we collected from 7 different areas on the mine.
The company from all our club family was wonderful and the weather was good.
Pierre
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| Our camping site - with absolutely no facilities ...... back to basics! |
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| Our camping site from another angle |
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| What's left of our previously good rock cliffs ... |
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| Pierre removing green phantom quartz from a little gulley |
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| A lovely smoky weighing 1 kg |
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| A lovely smoky quartz crystal |
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| Riana pointing to a lovely smoky quartz crystal sitting in a clay wall |
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| Flowers in the field on the mining grounds |
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