Past Lehi, almost to Delta you will find Topaz Mountain. It is about a 3 hour drive into the desert from Clearfield, but we all had a very nice day. Double click on the next photo, to see a very cool picture of Brian at the top of the mountain.
This is the view, looking down, where we were digging for most of the day. Can you spot our car?
And this is what we were looking for! Brian's greatest find.. a rather large pink topaz!
We found clear (mostly), pink, and brown topaz. Brian said if you heat the clear crystals, they can turn blue. I hope my next blog isn't talking about a certain someone burning his hand off.
Mya is holding the "tool" that Dad gave her to dig with. I'm sure Mya would have liked to stay all week if we would have let her. Since we wouldn't let her climb too far on the mountain, she found her topaz in the washes of the canyon.
If you can't tell by her face, Ana is saying "Wooooooooooh!!" at the pretty desert flowers. She dug around the washes too, looking for "sparkly rocks".
It got kinda' long and hot by the end of the day, as you can tell by their faces :)
Brian mostly chiseled away at the mountain. I liked to dig through the rubble from other's dynamite, to find the gems they didn't spot!
There were hundreds of these lizards all over the place, lots of huge red ants, and we spoted one antelope. Luckily we didn't encounter a rattlesnake.
Most of the grand collection. It's hard to see in a photo what they really look like, but you get the idea.
This is the view, looking down, where we were digging for most of the day. Can you spot our car?
And this is what we were looking for! Brian's greatest find.. a rather large pink topaz!
We found clear (mostly), pink, and brown topaz. Brian said if you heat the clear crystals, they can turn blue. I hope my next blog isn't talking about a certain someone burning his hand off.
Mya is holding the "tool" that Dad gave her to dig with. I'm sure Mya would have liked to stay all week if we would have let her. Since we wouldn't let her climb too far on the mountain, she found her topaz in the washes of the canyon.
If you can't tell by her face, Ana is saying "Wooooooooooh!!" at the pretty desert flowers. She dug around the washes too, looking for "sparkly rocks".
It got kinda' long and hot by the end of the day, as you can tell by their faces :)
Brian mostly chiseled away at the mountain. I liked to dig through the rubble from other's dynamite, to find the gems they didn't spot!
There were hundreds of these lizards all over the place, lots of huge red ants, and we spoted one antelope. Luckily we didn't encounter a rattlesnake.
Most of the grand collection. It's hard to see in a photo what they really look like, but you get the idea.
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