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BUCK CREEK Big Shaft Portal Near Buck Creek Click on pictures to enlarge Buck Creek Click on pictures to enlarge Almandite garnet fragments Corundum in matrix and pieces CORUNDUM KNOB Hwy 64 Near Glade Gap Click on pictures to enlarge Scattered ultramafic rocks on corundum knob Click on pictures to enlarge Click on pictures to enlarge Ruby in smaragdite Ruby in edenite-amphibolite   I made the following cabochons from material collected from this area (cab pictures do not enlarge): BEHR CORUNDUM MINE Lake Chatuge at the Behr Mine Early March 2003 Click on pictures to enlarge Lake Chatuge 2006 Corundum (Behr specimens courtesy of Bill Booth)