My wife, Barbara, and I showed up at the site about 9:00am.   Being a Monday, I had little response to the invitation that I had given for other people to join us, so it was just the two of us.   It was cloudy all day and though still rather warm, a bright, sunny day would have helped in spotting amethyst crystals.   The road to the pit was muddy and being in the van rather than the truck, we decided to park under the power lines and walk in.  

We surfaced collected until noon and found several small amethyst pieces and crystals in the tailings.   We stopped and ate lunch, and afterward I decided to break boulders to find amethyst.   At first, I had trouble deciding which boulders to break.   I soon realized that the best bets were the boulders that looked the most porous regardless of size.   As I started breaking these boulders, I found many with pockets and several with pale to medium amethyst crystals.   The pockets are lined with small needle quartz and the large amethyst crystals have grown right onto these small quartz points.   The pockets are then filled with either a purplish or red clay.  Check out Rodney Moore's web site at Dixie Euhedrals.