Comments on: Mount Shasta (N CA Site 5) http://gemtrails.com/105/mount-shasta-n-ca-site-5/ Rockhounds: Share your Gem Trails experiences. Keep rockhounding fun. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:42:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: wolfeyez77 http://gemtrails.com/105/mount-shasta-n-ca-site-5/comment-page-1/#comment-16 wolfeyez77 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:08:19 +0000 http://gemtrails.com/?p=105#comment-16 I made it up to the site this past Memorial Day 2010. I drove N on Yellow Butte Rd from the highway, but the road wasn't marked, only paved for about... 20 feet? Drove for quite awhile, taking numerous side roads to look for the site. finally just gave up and started driving the rest of the road to get out of the area. As we continued driving, I could see a burnt out, shot up modular home sitting back in the pine trees a few hundred feet. A couple hundred feet further north along the road I saw a discoloration of the hillside through the trees. I turned around and tried once more. Thankfully this turned out to be the site. Many pieces of malachite stains, found a few very thin pieces of actual malachite. Also found a good deal of chrysocolla, though nothing substantial. No material that could be worked with, only nice hand pieces. I made it up to the site this past Memorial Day 2010. I drove N on Yellow Butte Rd from the highway, but the road wasn’t marked, only paved for about… 20 feet? Drove for quite awhile, taking numerous side roads to look for the site. finally just gave up and started driving the rest of the road to get out of the area.

As we continued driving, I could see a burnt out, shot up modular home sitting back in the pine trees a few hundred feet. A couple hundred feet further north along the road I saw a discoloration of the hillside through the trees. I turned around and tried once more. Thankfully this turned out to be the site. Many pieces of malachite stains, found a few very thin pieces of actual malachite. Also found a good deal of chrysocolla, though nothing substantial. No material that could be worked with, only nice hand pieces.

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