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BUCK CREEK


Big Shaft Portal Near Buck Creek

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Buck Creek

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Almandite garnet fragments


Corundum in matrix and pieces


CORUNDUM KNOB


Hwy 64 Near Glade Gap

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Scattered ultramafic rocks on corundum knob

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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

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Lake Chatuge 2006


Corundum

(Behr specimens courtesy of Bill Booth)