An exceptional water clear quartz cluster with incredible impact and luster. from East Coleman Mine, Garland County, Arkansas, USA
Photo: GeoCrystals
EAST COLEMAN MINE
A quartz mine located 4½ miles NNW of Jessieville. Mineralization is quartz veins in Stanley Shale.
Access: Located on the road which runs alongside Colemans Rock Shop and driving two miles west of Hwy 7, then turn right on Crystal Ridge Road and driving to the top of the hill to the mine, all roads paved, stopping at the office/rock shop at the top of the hill past the campground, to pay your dig fee.
This mine was and is the most productive quartz mine in Arkansas. It has been producing quartz crystals in large quantities since 1943. When it is operating it has produced about 60,000 pounds of quartz crystals a during a good month. In the 1980s the mine was sold to the Japanese to produce quartz for industrial purposes (fiber optics?). In the early 90s, Ronny Coleman bought the mine back from the Japanese and has operated it intermittently ever since.
[Rock Currier 2011
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