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CHAMBER'S MOUNTAIN KYANITE


Summer view from Chamber's Mountain

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Winter view from Chamber's Mountain


Kyanite in quartz and mica

Attention: Chamber's Mountain is no longer accessible. The propery is patrolled, surveiled by camera, and has a manned guard shack on the entrance road.

OLD PRESSLEY SAPPHIRE MINE


Old Pressley Sapphire Mine in early Spring 2003

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Sapphire crystals

(Some Old Pressley specimens courtesy of George McCannon)

WOOD CREEK


Wood Creek in early spring 2003

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Sapphire

Attention: The Wood Creek site has been closed.