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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 05:06    Post subject: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

I just got back from three days collecting quartz crystals on the top of Petersen Mountain, Hallelujah Junction, Washoe Co., Nevada. The "mine" is about 25 miles from Reno. This has been a fascinating experience and I would like to share some of it with FMF followers. I was part of a group of about a dozen collectors, one of whom was Tony Potucek who will, I hope, provide many more photos. I was only able to take photos the first day because the wind and dust at the mine made my camera unusable after that.


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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 05:42    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Continuing


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Just left the paved road and heading toward Petersen Mtn. in the distance.
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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 09:41    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Mr. White,

I enjoyed your pictures and looking forward to more from members of the group.

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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 09:56    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Love field trips, John.
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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 10:28    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Think I see Paul and Noel in the group shot? Hot as summer here in NC right now and I am openly jealous. Would love to see more photos from whomever took some. Been wanting to do that trip for a while...

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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 10:53    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

vic rzonca wrote:
Love field trips, John.


Yes John, please do not make us wait tooo long! :-)

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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 11:13    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

As John White mentioned, we had a great trip to Petersen Mountain, which was arranged by Scott Werschky working with one of the owners, Paul Geffner. The steep part of the road leading up to the top of the mountain, where the claims are located, is where Forum member John Cornish slid backwards on the wet clay and tipped his truck over a couple of years ago. Gotta pic, John? The pictures cannot convey the steepness of the terrain. When there is wet weather, no one goes up or down the road.

To Scott and Paul and the other owners, I would like to thank them for the hospitality. On with the show.



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Ken Roberts, Neil Prenn and Ian Merkel checking fresh ground for pockets. Ian worked for the consortium of owners and was a great help.
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Ken Roberts working a pocket.
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Foster Hallman, former owner with over 4 decades of experience on Petersen Mt., running the Hitachi excavator.
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John S. White scored early with a fine amethyst quartz floater. Don't let the name on the box fool you. John is not pure except in knowledge! Ha, ha!
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Ronna Jewett, discoverer of the mondo best pocket holding a small quartz from her find. The pocket exceeded 4 feet (1.3 m) in depth by the time it was finished.
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Paul Geffner holding likely the best specimen from Ronna's pocket & a significant quartz from Petersen Mtn. Undamaged and not repaired!
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Ian Merkel attempting to reach more specimens from Ronna's pocket. Jerry Rosenthal, who worked the pocket with Ronna is standing next to Ian.
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Jerry Rosenthal holding one of the quartz scepter specimens from he and Ronna's pocket.
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Ken Roberts and vintner Brett Keller in a lighter moment of digging quartz crystals on Petersen Mountain.
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Neil Prenn intent on digging quartz in a pocket.
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Paul Geffner holding a large quartz scepter from a pocket.
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The current bottom of the mondo Ronna pocket worked by her and Jerry. There are some quartz crystals showing in the sericite-rich clay.
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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 11:58    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

More photos of the Petersen Mountain, Nevada quartz dig.


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Ian Merkel and Nick Skirkanich exposing a nice large quartz crystal point.
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Another exposed quartz pocket. Once surrounding granitics were pulled back, these pockets could be detected by gray to brown to blackish clay containing quartz shards. Probing with wooden chopsticks was key to extracting specimens with no or little damage. However, some pockets were totally crushed by tectonic activity prior to collector activity.
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Ian Merkel, an exposed quartz pocket, and Scott Werschky. Ian is a senior geologist working at FMI-Climax's Henderson mine (Mo) in Colorado, and Scott is a noted mineral dealer known as Mr. Round Mt. gold boy.
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Another exposed quartz pocket with wooden chopsticks for scale. Many sceptered quartz are head down in the pockets, possibly from the weight of the scepter head drawn down into the clay by gravity. Quartz crystals on the walls of the pockets are typically unremarkable and are simple hexagonal columnar specimens with "normal" terminations. It is interesting to note that many pockets only contain one or two nice crystals and the rest are insignificant in comparison. Ronna's pocket was large enough to prove to be an exception.
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John Veevaert on the left is expressing his "disappointment" to mucho ebullient Nick Skirkanich upon Nick finding another fine quartz head. Dan Kennedy is in the background, finding a lot of humor in the moment.
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The motley crew of Tony Potucek, Ken Roberts, and Neil Prenn enjoying a brief respite during the quartz dig. Photo by Scott Werschky.
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Portland, Oregon father-son collectors Jack (left) and Floyd (right) enjoying the dig. Son Jack found a very clear amethyst scepter point in the pocket, undamaged, and the point of the scepter in the amethyst head could clearly be seen. Floyd is one of the owners of Jackson Crossroads in Georgia.
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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 15:24    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Great post John and Tony; many thanks for sharing the experience with us with your excellent photo's. Looks like a really fun day was had by all - the phrase " rabbits in a sandpit" springs to mind. The quartz crystals aren't bad either...!

Cheers, Mike :-)

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PostPosted: May 14, 2014 16:12    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

I'm purple with envy! Thanks for posting some wonderful photos.
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PostPosted: May 15, 2014 04:43    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Some more photos.


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Finally, we get to collect!
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Tony working a pocket.
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PostPosted: May 15, 2014 04:59    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

And more.


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Scott Werschky working a good pocket.
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Crystals as far as one's arm can reach. If the pocket continues then Foster will remove more of the rock covering it.
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My best pocket, the one on the right, and the crystals found in it.
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PostPosted: May 15, 2014 05:11    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Fantastic John! What can be more exciting? Thank you for sharing. I look forward to seeing some of the cleaned specimens.
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PostPosted: May 15, 2014 19:48    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Pictures are only part of the story so I hope FMFers will forgive me for adding some lengthy text that may help to explain what the pictures illustrated.

Some observations:

This amazing quartz locality sits near the top of Petersen Mountain, Washoe Co., Nevada. While the elevation of Petersen Mountain is given as 7857 feet (2395 m), the mine is said to be about 6500 ft. in elevation.

I believe that I was the only collector who had not been at the mine before (apart from the young boy, Jack). One of the more experienced collectors told me he had collected at this site some 20 times, and most of the rest had been there often.

The rock in which the crystal pockets occur is a granite or a granodiorite, extensively fractured from a combination of tectonic forces and weathering, which is why the track hoe can so easily scrape off layers of it a little at a time. Pockets appear to be completely random, although the veteran collectors claim that the best chance of finding them is "following the quartz," which occurs in seams. This did not appear to be a constant. When one encounters a pocket it first appears as a relatively small spot in the rock that consists of quartz fragments, perhaps some feldspar fragments and brown mud, and usually it looks damp. This debris is easily removed using a wooden chopstick so as not to damage any crystals as the pocket is penetrated by removing this loose debris. In the two pockets in which I found crystals, the largish crystals (about 9-10 cm across) were just sitting in the pocket in this rock debris like a hen sitting on her nest. They were not attached to anything and could be easily lifted out after much of the rock fragments were whisked away from their sides. I did not find any large scepters but I have been told that when they are found they tend to have their heads lower in the pocket than their stems. Such pockets can either neck down quickly and be quite small or they can open up to large sizes. The one major pocket discovered while I was there ended up being about 4 feet deep, and well over a foot high and wide. A large number of great scepters unattached to matrix were removed from this pocket, plus an astounding fat scepter sitting on a quartz base with some other quartz crystals. By far, most of the scepters had no matrix and all crystals were usually at least partially covered by mud when removed.

Most of the crystals found here are smoky in color, but much of it seems to grade to a pale citrine, and some goes to amethyst but these are always zoned and smoky areas tend to dominate. Broken scepter stems are frequently seen, and these are typically in the form of hexagonal columns. Adjacent pieces can usually be fitted together but the scepter "heads" may not appear. One feature of these stems, in particular, is that most often the breaks occur along crude planes that are parallel to rhombohedral faces on terminated crystals, supporting the theory that quartz does, indeed, have a relatively common cleavage in this direction. For some reason this alleged cleavage is very common at this locality, while at others it is seldom seen. Scepters are very common, and they take many forms. In some the terminations are but a few mm wider than the stem, while others have extremely large and complex heads that sit on stems no more than a few cm thick. These are the specimens that are most highly coveted. I am very hopeful that someone will post photos of the amazing pieces that were taken from the large pocket alluded to above once they have been cleaned. In general, cleaning involves little more than scrubbing off the mud. but some pieces have fine-grained mica firmly attached.

In all it was a great experience and I am very grateful to all of those who made it possible for me, in particular Scott Werschky who persuaded me to do this, Paul Geffner who was a gracious host, Ian Merkel who directed me to the pockets that produced my best finds, and many, many others who helped to make the whole thing wonderfully memorable.

If I have misstated any important details in my account above I hope that one of the other participants will jump in and make appropriate corrections.

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PostPosted: May 15, 2014 21:32    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

I'm fascinated!

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PostPosted: May 16, 2014 01:27    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

John thank you very much for showing the report.

It is fortunate to work this site, congratulations to those who have been there.

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PostPosted: May 16, 2014 05:41    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

A couple of specimens cleaned up.


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PostPosted: May 22, 2014 08:56    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Hi Everyone,

Thanks so much John and Tony for sharing your adventure up on Peterson Mountain with the rest of us!!!

As per Tony's request, here is a copy of the infamous flipped truck poster I made up after living to tell the tale.

All the very best,

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PostPosted: May 22, 2014 09:37    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Nice addition to the thread John. How badly was the truck damaged? Did you try again to negotiate the hill?
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PostPosted: Jun 04, 2014 07:51    Post subject: Re: Hallelujah Junction, Nevada  

Hi John and All,

The truck suffered some bruises and scrapes, thankfully I did not! I had a $30 part fail which robbed all vacuum from the system creating a domino-effect where I lost traction, power, brakes, etc. A fun unplanned ride at 1:00 am let me tell you... NOT!

We used the tiny 555 Dozer and two Come-Alongs to right the truck (a one time shot as the dozer was on its last leg and only had power to come down and not to go up the hill). It was dicey, but we got 'er uprighted and down to the base of the hill where I began a couple days worth of new fluid (brakes, engine, trans) and parts replacement. Once done, I set my sights for the top of the mountain again and soon was in camp with a heck of a story to tell...

Ah, the romance of mining!

Oh ya, while it ain't pretty, the truck still runs with 455,000 miles on it!

Have a GREAT day everyone, take care,

John
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