Smoky Quartz

My favourite gem is smoky quartz, so when we heard of a place where you can find some real beauties we had to go. It was called Beear Fossicking Grounds.

Some lovely old people called Lou and Wendy let us go down their hole and find some smoky quartz. Their hole was massive! Their hole was about 6m deep, you had to climb down a ladder and then down some stairs. There was heaps of smoky quartz. We found more smoky quartz in one day then we would’ve by ourselves in one week. We also found some geodes that had smoky quartz crystals inside. All smoky quartz crystals grow inside a geod, then when a smoky quartz crystal gets too big it breaks free and that’s when we find it in the wall of the hole.

It was a lot of hard work and it was very special digging out my favourite crystals, and knowing that we were the first people to ever see that crystal.Read more