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]]>The quarry is very interesting, mainly feldspar and massive quartz, with huge crystals of schorl tourmaline embedded inside the feldspar. Along with this are garnets, most always forming in one thin layer on the outside of the feldspar blocks, the rare find of a scrap of aquamarine is possible and uncommon radioactive crystals of monazite and thorianite. I wanted to try and find some of the radioactives and nice garnet plate, my friend was looking for schorl chunks to put into reference kits for the kids. We found everything that you could expect to find from the quarry and spent about 2 hours collecting before hitting the road back to Los Angeles, with a wide open freeway, pre-rush hour, it was a great trip. If you are in the Southern California area, this is an interesting place to check out and I hope you make it without any problems and who knows, maybe in a few years the road will be paved! (and gated, to keep you ruffians out) This is BLM land, no person should DARE to stop entry to that land. Access to this area has been served by that road which far predates the church or the houses being built up there. It is absolutely shameful if anyone tries to stop you.
Overlooking the quarry from the parking area.
For size reference, here is my hand.
A human for size reference.
More mouth-watering schorl!
This schorl crystal would fall to bits if we tried to remove it from matrix.
A typical scrap of Schorl Tourmaline found on the dumps.
Commonly seen are the blocks of feldspar, more uncommon is a coverage as rich as this with well formed crystals.
You can tell these are radioactive due to the radiation rings discoloring the quartz/feldspar matrix.
Leaving the quarry with some rocks to share with the kids.
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