Jackson Crossroads Amethyst Mine 3/20 or 3/21

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:17 pm

Gonna go check this mine in east ga. cost is 25 per head and you have to be at the gate by 9am to be let in. Very primitive open pit mine, you will have to bring everything you need to get by for the day. Im thinking of going either in the morning or wed. morning.

http://www.wncrocks.com/resources/Collecting%20site%20jackson%20crossroads.htm

Post up here so I can let the caretaker know a head count and put you on the list. Im waiting to hear back from him if I can go in the morning or wed. morning.

Dredger Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 487 Location: ohio

thats pretty cool ... good luck !!!!!

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:21 pm

Looks like a cool place to spend a day. Post some pics.

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:54 pm

no takers eh? Guess im riding solo yet again. lol Story of my life.

Dredger Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 487 Location: ohio

if i had the cash id leave now but i still wouldnt make it there by 9am ...lol

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:21 pm

meh, wasnt expecting alot to be able to go on short notice and a weekday just trying to do some things while I have this week off. Ill probably go wed. morning. Havent heard back from the caretaker yet.

Dredger Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 487 Location: ohio

we got rained out while workin one day and ended up shuttin down here and took the tour of this cave ... that had bags to run through the sluice but it was cold and they wernt gonna turn it on for the 4 of us ... cool formations though !

http://www.ohiocaverns.com/photos.htm

Dredger Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 487 Location: ohio

this is bout 30-40 mins from me and i just found it while usin google to find a gem mine after seein ur post ... THANKS !! , i figure for $2.00 i, gonna have to run the kids up there and check it out !!! when i go im gonna put a bit of gold in the pan and jump up and down and see what the people runnin the place say ...lol

http://www.noemagems.com/gemmine.htm

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:42 am

alright were locked in at 9am wed. (21st). You have to be there at 9am sharp.

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:27 pm

Did a full day diggin here and while I came back with some amethyst, they were all broken half points, nothing real cool. Funny thing was it was all laying on top almost like it had been salted. I dug and dug and dug in 4 different spots and moved a ton of material and only came back with a few specimens. I wasnt too impressed with this place and I seriously doubt I will be back. For 10 bucks cheeper and 30 minutes a longer drive I couldve went to diamond hill and had a blast. Save your money folks and steer clear of this one. Anyone else been there?

Dredger Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 487 Location: ohio

Picker Pete wrote:

Did a full day diggin here and while I came back with some amethyst, they were all broken half points, nothing real cool. Funny thing was it was all laying on top almost like it had been salted. I dug and dug and dug in 4 different spots and moved a ton of material and only came back with a few specimens. I wasnt too impressed with this place and I seriously doubt I will be back. For 10 bucks cheeper and 30 minutes a longer drive I couldve went to diamond hill and had a blast. Save your money folks and steer clear of this one. Anyone else been there?

funny u say that .. i was readin on the site and the guy kept sayin b sure to walk around first and look on top of the piles ... sucks you didnt have as good of a time as you had hoped for !

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:04 pm

gary wrote:

Picker Pete wrote:

Did a full day diggin here and while I came back with some amethyst, they were all broken half points, nothing real cool. Funny thing was it was all laying on top almost like it had been salted. I dug and dug and dug in 4 different spots and moved a ton of material and only came back with a few specimens. I wasnt too impressed with this place and I seriously doubt I will be back. For 10 bucks cheeper and 30 minutes a longer drive I couldve went to diamond hill and had a blast. Save your money folks and steer clear of this one. Anyone else been there?

funny u say that .. i was readin on the site and the guy kept sayin b sure to walk around first and look on top of the piles ... sucks you didnt have as good of a time as you had hoped for !

I still had a great time just not much to show for my efforts. May have just been my luck but it was just funny how the pieces were all over the top yet when you dig there was not much to be found but micro pieces and trust me I did a thorough job going through my material and I bet I moved enough material to fill 5 truck beds with a pickaxe. Almost felt like it had been gone through previously or that maybe the tailings were just put there to get to the good stuff as the middle of the pit was roped off unlike diamond hill where you can go anywhere in the pit if you want. I think the guy says to look at the top so you dont get skunked which is an easy feat for this place.

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:17 pm

JXR isn't salted. I think its just one of those places where if they recently did any machine digging, your odds of finding something nice in the tailings drastically increases. Its not like DH where veins are sometimes easily accessible. I have never been, but from what I've heard it can be feast or famine at JXR.

-Dave

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:08 am

greendave wrote:

JXR isn't salted. I think its just one of those places where if they recently did any machine digging, your odds of finding something nice in the tailings drastically increases. Its not like DH where veins are sometimes easily accessible. I have never been, but from what I've heard it can be feast or famine at JXR.

-Dave

Im sure it isnt salted, just sayin it felt like it the way I was finding fragments at the top. Im sure if you went right after they dug you would have a better chance if you were there but theres tons of tailings piles still there and Im sure loads of stuff untouched. The clay pockets I was digging into looked fresh and undug besides it being in a tailings pile so I wasnt just scraping the surface. Some places I went several feet down and in a few directions before moving on. From my experience, I wont go back and I have heard good and bad from this place as well just figured I would give it a shot and for 25 bucks I was far from getting my moneys worth.

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:32 pm

As you can see I didnt do near as good as I did at Diamond Hill.

fragments of amethyst mainly with one rough piece attached to its base still. Kind of weird there was only one there. It was embedded inside a rock and when i split it that was the only one in there.