Posted by onawah
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I live in Arkansas which is rich in crystal.
In '92, I was living on the same dirt road as one of the largest quartz crystal mines in the world.
I've become very attuned to crystal over the years, but even then when it was all new to me, it felt horrible when I went to dig in the mine, because of the way the owners dig the crystals up out of the earth with those big metal scooper things mounted on the front of huge trucks that must crack and crush as many crystals as they dig up intact. It's a kind of sacrilege.