The Pockets found in 2000 at the Ochard Mine

Mining at the Orchard and GE Quarries
Oxford County, Maine

Coromoto Minerals
The 2000 Season pockets reviewed.
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The quartz visible in the last photo was cap layer over the pocket. In this photo Doug and Mary are unloading the pocket on to our saruca screen.	No caption necessary.
After some debate on strategy, we hoed up this beauty in the floor immediately in front of the pocket above. The quartz cap layer can be clearly seen at the top of the photo. This pocket was quite deep and yielded many fine etched beryls.	A few of the etched beryls.
On August 10 two days later we found yet another pocket lower in the zone. In this pockets beryls were found etched to near destruction This was the last beryl pocket to be opened in 2000. Below this last pocket we found quartz filled pockets to several meters in size. Although the walls of these pockets showed beryl casts, no beryls were found. Some of the last beryls found in 2000.	In this view of one of the lower chambers a parallel growth smoky quartz crystal plate cane be seen attached to the back wall. Mary was able to enter this chamber with a five gallon pocket. Dozens of interconnecting chambers had doubly terminated quartz crystal to 1 meter in length. This quartz is typical of the many ones found in the extensive pocket system below the beryl zone.