The Highway 21 Quarry

Location Name: The Highway 21 Quarry
Materials: Micro minerals. Quartz, fluorite, epidote, chlorite, and euxenite-Y.
GPS: 38.42328, -113.09267
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Tools: If you want to break rocks on site you should bring a hand sledge and a chisel.
Vehicle: Any
Date Visited: July 2024
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The knob and quarry.
Quartz crystals.
The view from the top of the knob.
Some fine grained rock with amazing crystal filled vugs.
Sara finding the best material.
The knob and quarry
The view from the top.
The view from the bottom.
Unidentfied mineral glowing green under 254nm shortwave UV light.

Some macro images of the material.

A dark green bed of chlorite with a quartz crystal in the upper right.
Dark green chlorite with quartz, fluorite and epidote.
A brown little chunk of euxenite-Y.
A lovely example of fluorite.
For scale here is the vug which contains the fluorite shown in the previous image.