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Post by Original Admin on Feb 12, 2004 3:30:16 GMT -5
I'm always totally jealous of anyone who can go out on trips and find samples to take home and tumble without having to buy them.
Let other members know where to go and what to look for in this forum.
Andy.
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Post by Noosh9057 on Feb 12, 2004 9:09:36 GMT -5
YES!!!!! This forem should be great!!!!!!
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WilliamC
spending too much on rocks
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Post by WilliamC on Feb 12, 2004 18:07:44 GMT -5
Greetings All,
Hummmm..... places to go and actually collect rock would be nice to know. Unfortunately I can forsee many problems if there becomes a free-for all as to places on private property that someone may have happened upon nice rocks and shares this and suddenly more people go there and it becomes a problem. Especially in this day-and-age of cell phones and global positioning and such. I can see it now, out on a nature walk when I come across an outcropping of jasper. Just call up the wireless network on my computer/phone, drop a set of GPS coordinates onto the message board, and wait for the rockhounds to arrive ;D
But seriously, think twice before posting information that could potentially cause someone to get in trouble if they were to trespass or such.
With that said, in Tate County Mississippi, there aren't many good places to get rocks. I've driven around back roads and into surrounding counties a good bit and know where the overpasses and gullies are to collect "road rocks", but that's about all
WilliamC
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James
freely admits to licking rocks
Member since October 2003
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Post by James on Feb 13, 2004 14:45:47 GMT -5
Move to California. We have hundreds of locations. Or you could go north to Oregon, east to Nevada and Utah, southest to Arizona, or south into Mexico. All of these state/countries are loaded with endless amounts of minerals. The driving is my only problem. My truck is a piece of crap...  |
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MichiganRocks
starting to spend too much on rocks
"I wasn't born to follow."
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Post by MichiganRocks on Feb 13, 2004 15:26:37 GMT -5
Hi James, I have heard that some great rocks can be found along the fault lines. I know of someone who collects somewhere in the San Francisco area along a fault line.
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James
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Post by James on Feb 14, 2004 3:50:47 GMT -5
Most of the really good and abundant rocks are located in southern california around the Mojave desert area. the Cal/Arizona Mexico boarder is an amazing hot spot. Southern cal is about as good as you can get. You can However, find good stuff throughout all of california. Except for where I live...In the valley... |
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mudd1973
starting to shine!
new member of Culver City Rock and Mineral Club
Member since May 2003
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Post by mudd1973 on Feb 18, 2004 20:53:56 GMT -5
Hi James and any other SoCal tumblers,
There are actually some decent agates to be found off of Kanaan Road in the west valley. You should go to Yahoo and sign up on two groups which post some awesome rockhounding trips - LA Rocks and DieHard Rockhounds. This Sunday, the DieHard RH group is going to a mine down in northern San Diego county to dig up some really nice purple lepidolite and maybe find some tourmaline and quartz points. If you are interested, email me directly and I'll forward the announcement - hmcx2@aol.com. The owner of the Thursday Mine lets us dig with no charge because he needs to move the lepidolite out if the way to go in and hunt tourmaline and beryl.
Ellen near LAX
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James
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Post by James on Feb 19, 2004 14:56:35 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip Ellen. By the way, how's that jasper doing?
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mudd1973
starting to shine!
new member of Culver City Rock and Mineral Club
Member since May 2003
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Post by mudd1973 on Feb 19, 2004 15:25:43 GMT -5
Hi James,
The beautiful rough red jasper you sold me is sitting next to the rough rose quartz and Labradorite and garnets that I bought on eBay. I still haven't finished my first load all the way. I started with a load of mixed ocean rocks and was very unhappy with their looks after 220. Many had fractures and about 1/3 had developed milky white patches. I suspect some were softer "moonstone" and others were jasper/agate.
With the holidays, dreaded tax organizing and calculating and extra art projects at school, tumbling has taken a back seat. My life is way too "interesting."
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Billy
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Post by Billy on Mar 4, 2004 9:54:20 GMT -5
New Mexico has lots of good places to find real nice rocks for tumbling or cutting let me know if someone is close by an I will let you know where to go
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Allagash
off to a rocking start
Member since March 2004
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Post by Allagash on Mar 21, 2004 9:28:44 GMT -5
I hail from Maine and here we have a number of pegmatite mines that are open. We collect from the tailings and tumble the interesting specimens. You can find a lot of information on this website maintained by the State: www.state.me.us/doc/nrimc/mgs/mgs.htm |
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Rockhead
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Post by Rockhead on Jul 10, 2004 7:21:44 GMT -5
Some 20-25 years ago we used to frequently camp in the Southern California mountains 7000 to 8000 feet above San Bernardino. I'm talking about places like Big Bear and Arrowhead. There we would walk along the dry creek beds and find all kinds of very colorful crystalline rocks weighing anywhere from 10 to 75 lbs. each. We would load up the pickup truck with a bunch of that stuff each weekend and bring it back home where we were making a very unusual rock garden.
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Don
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Post by Don on Jul 14, 2004 10:17:08 GMT -5
I used to live in Southern California, and took frequent trips out to the desert with friends for weekends of shooting and hiking. We used to go to a spot off trona rd., near the city of trona, we would camp in sight of 1/2 dz. abandoned mines.. Of course this was before I was into "rocks" , and can just imangine how many choice rocks I passed up, and did'nt even know it ! Im now living in Wisconsin, and apparently due to Glacier activity that occured a looong time ago, lot's of stuff got covered up. So it's alot harder here to find good rocks. But this hobby is kinda like fishing, even if you dont catch anything, it's still alot of fun..  Don |
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RedwoodRocks
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Post by RedwoodRocks on Jul 16, 2004 10:58:14 GMT -5
Hey James,
Want to trade trucks? These days, the only place the truck goes is the dump! The other day, on the way to the dump, my son (7 yrs old) said that when he gets big, he was going to drive his little sister to the dump! I was laughing so hard, I almost crashed.
I used to live in your neighborhood (Tracy) and made the drive to San Jose for almost 7 years- 70 miles one way. The truck has over 250,000 miles.
Ed (stoner) told me about a spot in Morgan Hill (south of San Jose for agates and jasper.
Cal
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Post by 4guysme on Jul 22, 2004 23:50:23 GMT -5
Does anyone know if basalt can be polished up or made to look nice in any way? I live near sooooo much of it.
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shorty
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Member since December 2003
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Post by shorty on Jul 23, 2004 10:46:19 GMT -5
hi james ill trade you a nice truck if you can get your hands on a 1927 to 35 car or truck. running or not i gust traded two isuzu troper twos for a chevy 3/4 ton pick up 4/4 bad body but a plow truck. with a good heater i can get some other truckes or cars my son just got a chev s 10 pickup with a 350 eng in it for 2 hundread bucks.
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