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84 84  You have to pay $15/person to play in the dirt.  The regularly "till" the ground every month or so, but apparently the last time this had been done was about 2 months ago.  If you read the accounts of people who have just found diamonds by "ground collecting" (walking around looking at the ground), it seems to almost always be the case that they found them when the ground had been tilled the day before and then there was a good rain, which exposed them.  We didn't have very nigh expectations, but thought it woiuld be good experience in using the sifting pans, etc.
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86 86  We spend most of the day ground collecting and Kelly found quite a few pretty rocks.
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89 89  That's about all!
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91 91  When the mining area closed, at 4pm, we came back to the truck and Richard worked on fixing the cable connecting our trailer rear camera.  The cable has always been far too long and we've always wrapped it around the hitch multiple times to compensate, but apparently when we hitched up the last time, it wasn't wrapped around enough and ended up dragging on the pavement!  This ended up breaking almost **all** of the 5 wires inside the cable and the camera stopped working suddenly!  It took quite a lot of testing wires to finally find the cause of them problem, but once it was found, it was kinda obvious!
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128 128  In the end, we found some extremely small pieces of what looked to be quartz or possibly diamond.  Asking the expert on the way out, we were told it was quartz and calcite.  So...  No diamonds for us, but lots of experience in "rock classifying"!
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135 +Tomorrow, we head to [[Rocking A RV Park>>https://rockingarvpark.com/]] in [[Vernon, TX.>>Vernon-TX]]
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