When you see this water tower you know you are getting really close to the heart of Georgia's "Amethyst Country"

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Mandy finds an amethyst cluster

Close-up of specimen that "Mandy" found.

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. . .using a screwdriver to pry out a crystal from it's clay pocket

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Travis Hartin pulled one out and saw something strange........clay inclusion looks like . . .

. . . it looks like a rabbit!

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One area was cordoned off and reserved.
Travis Hartin works on a pocket which had been exposed early that morning with a backhoe!

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At the end of the day the huge boulder piles proved to be too much for the crowd of folks --- all 140 of them --- they did their best to break them down!

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the whole pocket contents at days end

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