I was just finishing up when Di came up and said that Chris had just found his first purple Fluorite!

So I packed up the mineral specimens already gleaned and headed down with hi hopes. Dale and Barb did also. Dale did find a few pieces of Fluorite there also, but I continued to get skunked. I was finding lots of dolo pockets but that was it. Then about a half hour later Di found this lovely yellow cube of Fluorite just laying on the ground

WOW, and I Still haven't found any Fluorite yet! Not even crumbs! I started heading back, continually searching, to were I had started.

I got back to the start of the pile and seen Dan there. He is the Wayne County, N.Y. field trip leader. He had just found a gorgeous purple phantom Fluorite in a vug of dolomite crystals with a double terminated Calcite next to it. So I then concentrated, once again, on my search for that elusive Fluorite! Then I found one! A nice one inch cube in a pocket of Dolomite.

The pocket was full of mud, so I didn't even notice that it was blue until I washed it off at home. It was wedged under another boulder so I borrowed a prybar from Dan ( with his help also! ) and managed to free the specimen. While doing so, I noticed a nice one inch Purple Fluorite on Dolomite just under the first Fluorite on the rock under it!

WOW, I finally found the elusive Fluorite. And to make it even better, when I got home and washed everything off, I found out that I had brought home blue, purple, yellow, and clear Fluorite! Below are some random quarry shots of me, Chris, and Kathryn. Shortly after finding the Fluorites the quarry time was up. Collecting was from 7 am till 12. We said our goodbye's and made it home around 6 pm. And also, thanks to my wife, Dianne, for all the Quarry shots and for driving the last 2 hours home in a thunderstorm so that I could take a nap! I was whooped, my hands are still sore when I wake, from breaking rock! And then I smile when I think of what I managed to find.............