Toveco Gilsum Action Late Entries
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Tripp Mine 2014 Mining Season Start
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Toveco End of 2013 Miming Season
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Tripp Mine Beryl Eye Clean Profiled Gem Rough
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2013 Spring Tripp Mine Update
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Modifying an Ultra Tec Fantasy Machine
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Working the Tripp Mine 9/01/09
Well just when I thought the new location of the Wayne/Lee pit road was set it changed. The plan was to move the road from the pit side to the wall side of the W/L pit and then drop the pit side rim down to the water. We started that effort and hit some very good pegmatite.
- BERYL CRYSTAL WITH MATRIX,1.5 X 3.06” TALL
- BERYL CRYSTAL IN MATRIX,1.62” X 1.38” TALL
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2009 CVM Club outing to the Tripp Mine
This year was Connecticut Mineral Club’s 5th outing to the Tripp Mine. Each year the outing gets better and Lee & Wayne put more work into it. For me it is just a great party.
When a club comes to the Tripp Mine, I prep one of the (new blast material) pits just for their outing. The dumps and other dormant pits are also open for collecting. This year the Santospago pit was prepped for the CVM and the shovel-winning specimen came from this pit.
2009 Connecticut Valley Mineral Club members getting together to enter the Tripp Mine
The CVM club uses this outing to reward the members that work at their yearly mineral show. The outing consists of mineral collecting, silent auction (Toveco sponsored), judging the best-collected specimen, award presentation and eating pies at the end of the day. Continue reading
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2009 Gilsum NH Rock show
- 2009 Gilsum NH Rock show – looking north
The Gilsum rock show held in Gilsum NH next door to Alstead NH and just down the street from the Toveco Mines, so to speak. I have been attending this event for many years and this year’s show is one of the best ever for attendance and fun. The attendance was also a big surprise because of the predicted rain that did not show up until the show closed on Saturday evening and ended early Sunday morning making for a dry show. Continue reading
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Working the Tripp Mine, benching the pit side of the Wayne / Lee cut.
1.25" X 1.88" tall Heliodor crystal, 2009, Tripp Mine
A miner must learn to eat a lot of humble pie. As posted in the last blog we were into a lot of very poor quality feldspar and there was a good large pod of good quartz with feldspar crystals. To date when we hit these pods we have found good beryl crystals. This time the quartz, microcline, feldspar crystal pod (one of the largest found to date) produced no beryl. The area that was pushing out the poor quality feldspar (pit rim) changed into a rusty chowder peg (hematite stained blocky quartz with feldspar). This type of peg has produced light heliodor to date. It is also the area were Wayne is documenting the tree stump beryl crystal on you-tube. Continue reading
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