Field Trip Report
Chalk Mountain Mine
Mitchell County, N.C.
February, 2001Hello all, this is one of the older reports I was able to salvage off my fried hard drive. This was a trip RJ and I and some friends made to Chalk Mountain in February of 2001, it was bitterly cold the day we made the trip, but we stayed all day and into the night to get pics of the hyalite opal.
Me on top of Chalk Mountain.
A view from the top of the mountain, the mine in the distance is the Piney Flats Mine.
The top of the mountain.
Old mining equipment.
RJ playing on the sand pile at the mine.
Another shot of Piney Flats.
Large boulder covered in hyalite opal on top of the mountain.
Same boulder under short wave UV light.
Me and RJ on top of the mountain.
