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Bill Bunn digs beneath a dead tree while hunting for crystals at Mount Apatite Park in Auburn on Wednesday. “If you work hard enough, you will find something,” said Bunn of Portland. The park is popular with rock hounds, who search the large piles of material left over from the commercial feldspar mine that existed in the early 1900s. Small garnets, beryl, quartz crystals and tourmaline are what the park is known for, Bunn said.
Bunn found a hexagonal beryl crystal encased in matrix while digging on Wednesday. Bunn said tourmaline is the prized but rare crystal found at Mount Apatite Park.
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