( ARCHIVED PAGE ) Breaking news for Jackson's Crossroads pay to dig amethyst crystal mine and Hogg mine Beryl , star rose quartz and Tourmaline , and various other collecting areas , Updated August 03 , 2005 .  Logging crews are at the Hogg mine and are removing trees around the old  quartz core and off of the old aquamarine crystal  dumps , right NOW !  look for a update on this Thursday evening .There is no telling what this work will reveal . I am hoping they will be able to get the trees off of the Tourmaline crystal areas too . Anyone wanting to visit the Hogg mine to collect this weekend  ,  Please contact me in advance to take care of payment and paperwork -phone 404-975-8005  .Click the following very long link to check out this  ad on ebay where a guy is selling Hogg mine rose quartz. He tells about gaurds and shot gun blasts and howlings dogs !  He's singin' it like it used to be . It was all true ( kinda) ...........but that is in the past . Now , if ya gots thirtyfive bucks , you can fill a five gallon bucket slap full of this  STAR ROSE QUARTZ , without havin' to run from " Ol' Blue " or getting blasted with rocksalt   Note : origianally the following ad says the hogg mine was closed .  Now , the ad says that  one person reported the mine to be open , but that had not been verified .. http://cgi.ebay.com/103-cts-Star-Rose-Quartz-Famous-Hogg-Mine-GA-Closed_W0QQitemZ6538263614QQcategoryZ4842QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I have all kinds of nice things myself on sale on ebay , including a awesome piece of star rose quartz and I am starting the bidding off at one lowly U.S. Dollar .  That's right , bidding starts at just one lousy buck . I'll be adding all types of Georgia specimens later this afternoon too ! Check out my ebay store here : www.stores.ebay.com/dixieeuhedrals   Last weekend , the Hogg mine was visited by "Read Miner" from Columbia , South Carolina . He couldn't stand it , he just had to make the long return trip to get more tourmaline crystals! . Visitors to teh Hogg also included Mark and Lisa smereczniak who came down to see me again from Virginia , along with their nephews from Pennsylvania. They told me they had a blast during their visit here .   Jerry Sluder , of Cartersville, Ga.  , along with Tim Nix of Macon , and several other of their friends , visited Jackson's Crossroads to collect amethyst .  Jeff Francis also made a return trip .  From what I hear they did well and found some really good amethyst.   last but not least , Jeff Deere and Don Henderson visited my Lagrange clear quartz site  last weekend as well. They did extremely well and Jeff tells me he will be posting a report soon . I'll  post a link to this report as soon as it comes in .   I may have a machine dig at the hogg mine August 13 . This is a tentative date .  At the machine digs I use a big 15,000 pound backhoe or various size trackhoes , but in this case it will probably be a 17,000 pound trackhoe. No one is allowed in the hole , but I dump gem and crystal bearing  material right at the participants feet .  More about this later  !   A huge chunk of aquamarine was found earlier in the week at the hogg mine.  I smote it with a 3 pound hammer ! Subsequently reducing it on down to size , and picking out the water clear  gemmy ( and very blue ! ) facetable material pieces . I am on my way to the post office now to send the material out to the cutter .    We took a tractor today ( Saturday July 30 ) and moved fresh dirt from the aquamarine dumps.  Call 404-975-8005 to set up an appointment to visit . Pictured is the tractor and behind it the huge dumps .  NEW ! I will now be acting as a representative of the Diamond Hill quartz prospect  in Antreville , South Carolina . This collecting area  features plentiful smokey quartz crystals , skeletal quartz , and the rare and elusive AMETHYST CRYSTAL.  The folowing photographs are by Michelle Matthews and depict specimens that she personally found on our collecting trip. She found a very rare facet grade amethyst , rare in the fact that the faces are very shiney and the crystal is mostly facet grade.   Also pictured is a single smokey point .     And a quartz crystal cluster with a patina of iron oxide coating .  Most all of the crystals in the skeletal and amethyst pit have a pleaseing yellow or black coating , often with neat globular manganese.  First time visitors  with no collecting experiance, even novice collectors will do well here . For 15 measly bucks you'll have a good time for sure .  I'll have the new Diamond Hill page added to the www.dixieeuhedrals.net site soon ?  Call now to book your appointment :  404-975-8005 .  Aquamarine crystals hit Friday July 22 in virgin area of Hogg mine by Jeff Deere and Bob Madden, report on this to follow : Jeff Deere says that one 9 inch long crystal was hit . It was badly fractured and looked like a dinosour backbone sticking up out of the clay because of the segments. This fell apart on extraction . Beside that was a real hard solid aquamarine.   Jeff says this only had one or two crystal faces  and the rest of the crystal was just a mass.              I'll do more digging in this area later with a machine and we'll see what turns up . It looks like for now , the best area to look for aqua crystals is in the large dumps .  Featured below is a amethyst crystal cluster from Jackson's Crossroads in the new area that I purchased in joint partnership with Terry Ledford. This is a large dark purple double terminated crystal surrounded by  two large and four small double terminated crystals  and was dug July 4 at exactly 1:30 p.m. .  It was a terribly hot day that day so we had generators running to power fans  blowing onto us so that we could keep on rocking ! We have this specimen for sale at a firm $4,000.00 . Interested parties should email me . I'll be posting new items on ebay  www.stores.ebay.com/dixieeuhedrals  in the afternoon , and one of the items will be a flat of crystals from the July 4 weekend , 70 crystals at a starting bid of $325 .  Don't forget , call ahead if you want to visit the hogg mine this Friday or Saturday .  I may go out there with a tractor and move some fresh dirt from the huge tailings pile that has given up some nice aquamarine crystals.   Jackson's Crossroads is still good for collecting amethyst crystals . And of course , all y'all economy minded folks should consider checking out the lagrange quartz site  , at a measly $15 a day it is a great deal . Here is a link to a pdf file concerning the Hogg mine , you can download the file and then print out to show a friend or to take to your club meeting , you may also want to include it in your club newsletter, the pdf file format means it is ready made for this : http://www.dixieeuhedrals.net/content/hogg_mine.pdf     The  www.dixieeuhedrals.net  site has  undergone a major update . New Hogg mine page added , new photo gallery added , plus a pdf file that you can download and print out to take to your club meeting that tells about the Hogg mine.  Also added was a pdf file to download the release form . Coming in a few days will be a special flash player introduction to the Hogg mine .  Don't forget , add this page to your favorites and pass a link to your friends .  40 adults and a bunch of children attended the grand opening at the Hogg Mine . Everyone loaded up on lots of star rose quartz . We even took a machine and dug up fresh tourmaline as the folks went thru the tailings . Lots of good shiney tourmaline found and some quite big ! David Blount brought his friends Mark and Jeff and some other guy . They raked the huge tailings wall and discovered these green  beryl crystals.  About 2 p.m. it poured rain for 30 minutes , just after the rain , Fred Boyd from the Augusta gem and mineral club found this killer Aquamarine crystal - complete and perfect :  And in the same spot a few mintues later , Beverly Sapp from the Carrollton club  found this large aquamarine crystal , nearly as big as a coke can !  Helen , the lady that does my website www.dixieeuhedrals.net  attended and had a blast . She found aquamarine too ! She'll be updating the dot net site soon with good pictures of the festivities . After all the digging and rain and more rain to come ,seems like every afternoon , be sure to book a appointment to visit the Hogg mine  on Fridays and Saturdays only . $35 per person and I must have the signed release form in my hands before you can go out there. I now have a fax machine, so this will speed things up .  Often folks call at the last minute wanting to go . Be prepared to fax a copy ( by going to office max or the UPS store if you have to )  of the release , or mail the release in adequate time . Kim cohcran and Harry Hyaduck came to the Hogg , and then visited my nearby crystal site  . They were only out there a hour becuase of the mid day heat , but when they came back from that short trip their buckets had the bottoms covered with crystals. Kim found a super nice big shiney  quartz crystal that was 1 1/2 " in diameter and four or five inches long !  This location can be visited any time during the week as long as I get the release form and payment in advance. At only 15 lousy bucks a day , it is a bargain .     Special thanks to Bill and Sherry Mitcham for helping with the courtesy tent .   Ron and Nancey Seavers from Augusta visited as well as Jeff Deere ,  Doctor Bob Madden , Don Henderson , Billy Eidson , Carl Lewis , Monte Mcgee, Tim and Jorie Billingsley,Herb Whittinger,Read Miner ( who found some killer big tourmalines ! ) , Jim Nix and Tuell and Tom Batcha from Macon , J. Don Aldrige and his wife Marie ,  and a whole lot of other folks , Thank You for your support !    Please remember that I every few days I put new JXR amethyst crystals and Hogg mine star  rose quartz up for bid on ebay , check it out : www.stores.ebay.com/dixieeuhedrals    don't hesitate to call me at 404-975-8005 or email me sio2ga@bellsouth.net  to book an appointment to visit  (anywhere but ) Jackson's crossroads to collect amethyst , the lagrange clear quartz site ( R.A.Moore prospect #5 ) to collect super nice clear quartz crystals , or to visit the Hogg Mine . Look for more exciting news to come soon !