Digging Crystal With Melody At The MGM Grand
Who is Melody? Melody is a very nice lady who happens to be
the author of the series of books "Love Is In The Earth". She owns
some property near Mount Ida that just happens to have some quartz crystal
in the earth. She calls the area Melody Green Mine (MGM) Grand.
On October 31 we moved my track hoe to the MGM Grand and started digging.
Old Yeller the track hoe |
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Melody hired Randy to operate the track hoe and coordinate the digging
operations. We got about four inches of rain that helped make the
clay in the pockets a little stickey and MMMM good.
Randy & Melody |
Randy & Tim |
Melody in the MMMM |
The quartz crystal is found in pockets of quartz filled with clay.
Once in a while you will find a dry pocket (no clay inside).
Dry pocket |
Randy, Melody & Tim checking things out |
Randy Melody, Tim & Tim checking things out. |
The wet pit |
Melody digging |
More digging |
Friends stopped by to play in the MMMM stuff and try their hand at
digging crystal.
Tim with a big cluster. |
Kristen checking out a crystal |
Linda getting in to her work. |
After a big day at the MGM Grand we spent some time relaxing and
telling stories.
Randy on the back deck |
Melody & Steve |
Linda & Melody |
They diggers delivered the crystals to my home and I rinsed them
off so Melody could pick out what she wanted to keep. The last step
was wrapping and boxing them to ship to Colorado.
Randy & Melody wrapping crystal. |
Melody wrapping. |
Bear (my crystal dog) helping. |
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