In old quarries

It was nice. Just enough for a walk around the area. Where to go? After yesterday's snowfall, there was only mud left, so I'll skip the field. But I could visit a few old quarries.

I chose the quarries near Dubične east of České Budějovice. I'm sure I'll find something in at least one old feldspar quarry. I didn't intend to collect anything overnight. Just walk around and take some photos.

So here we are. The small hole in the ground has really grown over since my last visit.

What can you find here? Nothing earth-shattering. Feldspar, quartz, biotite, muscovite. Just ordinary stones.

But some of the details look pretty nice. For example, here we have quartz with bits of biotite and feldspar,

a small piece of biotite in quartz

and here is biotite peeled off the quartz from the previous photo.

A suspicious shine caught my attention. Nothing extraordinary. Just a piece of muscovite.

In detail of the surface and the layering of flat plates.

Again biotite. A nice vein in feldspar.

Most of the stones here look like this.

In another small quarry, where limestone was once mined, there were more interesting trees than stones.

I got to the last quarry quite late. The sun had disappeared over the horizon and the light was gradually diminishing. I will have to go here another time.
Strangely enough, in the beginning twilight, I managed to catch a glimpse of this stone.

A distinctive square piece and two smaller ones above it, it is albite, a type of plagioclase or sodium-calcium feldspar.

In the end, it was a pleasant walk. I was pleased to find albite. Besides, even an ordinary stone that has at least some structure is enough to make me happy :-).