The miners overlooking some of their finds. Valeri, far right, is a trained geologist, Misha, on the far left, was a Russian military helicopter pilot.

The heart of the Moss Mine pegmatite. The bulldozer is removing some of the barren pegmatite boulders. The pegmatite body is being worked as a 20 meter thick bench, drilling and blasting only small areas at a time. The unworked portion extends into the hill to the right. In the lower right, amongst the pry bars and drill steel, have been found many pockets containing beautiful pink tourmaline crystals.