A Fine Pocket At State Forest #1 Quarry

The State Forest #1 Quarry lies in the Meshomasic State Forest very near the Nathan Hall Quarry. It has a large pocket zone high above the rest of it's workings. This area produces beryl, almandine, etched microcline, feathery albite, and fine smokey and clear quartz crystals. Yesterday I was lucky to open a decent little pocket in this zone. For those who are not familiar with the quarry, the pocket zone has been excavated by collectors to form a small adit. In the very back of the adit I pocket around at the bottom part of the wall and found a soft spot. I scraped out some material and was rewarded with this fine specimen:

Soon it became apparent that this was a good find for the locality, and a decent sized pocket.

I worked the cavity for a good hour and a half before it worked out, and was rewarded with a large amount of specimens. Interestingly, the pieces from this cavity were completely devoid of the typical iron staining that coats a lot of specimens found at this site.

This is the pocket with a hammer for scale. Some rock was removed from the surrounding area to ake work easier and less painful.

The brown rocks are specimens from the cavity laid out after removal.

And here they are at home, along with specimens from the ruble placed in the 'battle ship' board game box.