In May 2008 a small group of collectors, led by Terry Led-ford and including Ryan Bowling, Thomas Davis, Noel DeDora, Paul Geffner, Ryan Ledford, and Travis Hartin, continued mining the now-well-known Jacksons Crossroads amethyst deposit. This occurrence, which is located in Wilkes County, Georgia, some 8 kilometers northwest of Tignal, has recently produced some of America's finest gem and specimen amethyst (Cook et al. 2008; Bowling, Moore, and Ledford 2005). It is one of a trend of Piedmont amethyst occurrences spanning the eastern seaboard from Maine to Georgia (White and Cook 1990) that have sporadically produced wonderful specimens.
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