Treasure Hunting

We decided to do a little experiment with some of the crystals found at the Krystal Tips mining site.  The picture to the left shows a flat of some of the crystals that were dug there back in June.  As you can tell, they’re still pretty dirty.

The crystals in this collection don’t have very good points so we decided that we wanted to try polishing them in the rock tumbler to see how they would turn out.  But the first step is to get them clean.  So right now, they’re sitting in a bucket of soapy water on my front porch. 

Later on today, I plan on going out and rinsing them off.  I’m guessing they’ll still have some good hunks of dirt on them so they’ll probably need to soak a little more.   I’ve already noticed some purple in some of these crystals - maybe when they’re cleaned up more, some more amethyst will be seen.  But for the most part, they look to be mainly of the smoky and clear varieties.  I’m pretty curious to see how they’re going to turn out after being polished, especially the wands.