Part of the Brunswick Pegmatite. Our best experience here is finding optically clear and smokey quartz (massive) and deep red garnets. It is hard to find whole garnets but the when you do, they are worth the effort. This location requires a long hike to reach, probably 45 minutes and the initial climb is steep. You really should be in good shape for this hike.
Minerals observed: Albite, Almandine (Garnets), Beryl (Aquamarine, Heliodor), Biotite, Microcline, Molybdenite, Muscovite, Quartz (Clear, Milky, Smokey), Schorl
The first three pictures show the hike in (click on them to enlarge the picture)
Here is a picture of the quarry
A picture of a screening operation for garnets
Here is a sheet of Biotite imbedded in the matrix (click to enlarge)
07/07/2002
Lovely deep red garnets found in the dump on the back of the pit
4/20/2003
Checked through the dumps on the north side and found much more in the way of gemmy quartz and gemmy smokey quartz, no crystals.
05/17/2003
Spent the day screening garnets and came home with about 25 nice blood red specimens.