Treasure Digging at The Hogg Mine in Georgia!

John — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:18:26 +0000

I used to be the kind of guys that walked through life and didn’t think “hey look over there Treasure in the dirt!” You know most of us don’t really look around us and see the beauty within the rock and in the woods and under the leaves. We see the fast pace of American society and we get so far in debt that we can’t get away from the daily grind! You know what I mean! The price of gas and the high medicals bills and the other bills and the bills of bills! Yeah they got you pal! The last place on earth you ever think to be is on farm digging treasure!

Back a month ago I was standing on the side of road in the country down in LaGrange, Ga. A car passed by as we all were digging the precious “Black Tourmaline in Quartz (tourmalated Quartz)” We were at the Hogg mountain mine on one of Rodney’s digs! Dixieeuhedrals

It was our first time at the Hogg Mountain mine and it was an awesome experience! Rodney was great and so was everybody else. It was so rare to be in a moment of time out in the country watching the clouds float by as you take a break from exploring through all the rock.It was a nice day and the grounds was wet and muddy after a rain a few earlier. I am so glad I wore my waterproof boots! It was getting hard walk as the mud piled up on my shoes. The big water puddle did come in good use later though! The first area we were digging was in a pile of material taken from the mine. Often when a mine is staked they will dig one material and throw the other stuff away. Then years later someone will be like “hey this stuff worth a lot of money!” This happens all the time and there is always a left-over pile just ready for picking through! This was the pile!

We looked for an hour and the mud made it hard to look through the dirt! We then went to his 2nd area, the main Pit! It was mostly larger rocks and a lot of broken up rose quartz! It didn’t take me long to find some awesome pieces! They were everywhere and it would not believe how pink it is with the sunlight off of it! It really was magical, but not the big prize! The hot items were the Aquamarine and Beryl, both hard to find! IT seemed like the younger kids were having better luck at finding it! I spent a few hours at the mine before I saw a guy screaming “Rah yeah I got one!” He held it to the light and it was a piece of Aquamarine that had a very nice blue color to it and it was Gemmy! He was a happy guy!I Loaded up the Pink Quart and headed to the third area and looked around for about 10 minutes got bored and took a break.

My dad headed to an area where I looked earlier and right away the group of diggers starting to find some awesome black tourmaline in Quart. About 30 minutes passed and I started to go look for my dad and when I found him he was digging in a three foot hole. The rock was muddy and it was hard to the see the black tourmaline. I ran back to a waterhole and loaded the bucket with water and walked back to the dig site!I started grabbing the rocks and started washing them off! There was awesome black tourmaline all in the quartz! We dug for a few hours and were held back by this huge rock. The quartz was hard to break and it was hard to dig a piece that didn’t break from digging!

We should have used the right tools and used a chisel to break the rock! We should have used gloves also! This stuff is super sharp and can cut like glass.We ended up with some awesome pieces of Black Tourmaline in Quartz! I can’t wait to get them up on the site! I will not be long! I have taken pictures and I am working on a cart right as we speak! We also found some great rose quartz pieces that would be awesome to tumble for some jewelry! Come to the site and bookmark us!I just got through washing the Tourmalated Quartz and Rose Quart and some of the pieces are awesome! I was really shocked at the different sizes and how pretty the tourmaline crystals were, Georgia’s finest!

I found that breaking the larger pieces revealed some wonderful crystals. I used a toothbrush and scrubbed all the crystals and still had a tough time cleaning them. Some of the red Georgia dirt left stains in some of the rock I am thinking about making a few necklaces with the small Tourmaline pieces that we found.Hopefully soon we can make it back down to Rodney’s dig down at the Hogg Mountain mine! IT is located just right outside of LaGrange, Georgia! You plan a day trip and experience the thrill of digging treasure under the Georgia sky!

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Treasure Digging at The Hogg Mine in Georgia!