fragglerock
having dreams about rocks
Mmmmm Rocks.....
Member since October 2005
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Post by fragglerock on Oct 18, 2005 6:48:18 GMT -5
I'm from the UK, a wee place called Stonehaven  (honest!). The place is full of Granite and sandstone I think I have some jasper also, its all from the beach so until I get my IDing rocks book I cant be sure. |
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Post by rockds on Oct 18, 2005 11:07:36 GMT -5
send me some and I'll id them for you
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<º))))>< Fish
off to a rocking start
Member since October 2005
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Post by <º))))>< Fish on Oct 20, 2005 13:21:09 GMT -5
sure I can ID them also , but you have to send them over here half for rockds and the other half for me.
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okiromero
off to a rocking start
Member since November 2005
Posts: 10
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Post by okiromero on Nov 1, 2005 9:03:29 GMT -5
Living in Okinawa Japan...
Any idea what kind of 'special' rocks to look for here?
I have got on this site to find info on tumblers for a christmas gift.... maybe I should also find good rocks?
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Post by koolaid on Nov 25, 2005 9:48:48 GMT -5
I'm from South Carolina and we have all kinds of good stuff. Check out the past field trips in our club link. Check out the latest find this month at the Diamond Hill mine. Look for upcoming trip and perhaps you can join us. dirtyrockhounds.proboards19.com/index.cgi?board=general |
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JKowalski33
spending too much on rocks
Member since August 2004
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Post by JKowalski33 on Nov 27, 2005 16:51:44 GMT -5
I live in Keizer Oregon. No interesting rocks in my immediate area, however go east a couple hours, and central Oregon has tons of petrified wood. Richardson's Rock Ranch is known for its thundereggs. I think graveyard point plume agate is found near the Oregon/Idaho border.
Edit: oh, I forgot, OBSIDIAN!!! so much obsidian everywhere in central Oregon
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Post by americanbulldogsnj on Dec 2, 2005 19:54:04 GMT -5
Tabernacle, nj
Quartz, bog iron, mostly crap rock...
Marian
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rckhndk
starting to spend too much on rocks
My rockhound buddy
Member since November 2005
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Post by rckhndk on Dec 4, 2005 17:11:19 GMT -5
Rock Creek AL
Not much here but mudrock.
I have found pet wood and "Brookwood" pebbles south of here. Up north there are a few places to find agate, mostly blue and red.
Lots of iron, coal and limestone.
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Post by BAZ on Dec 7, 2005 12:24:26 GMT -5
Hi-oh!
Flagstaff, AZ here.
Got (too much) Obsidian, Fire Agate (never enough) and the usual Agates and Jaspers, etc. Not to mention some prized specimens (stuff that isn't in the garage under a ton of other stuff), fossilized coral, Fluorite, Malachite yada yada yada.
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Post by LCARS on Jan 25, 2006 1:45:48 GMT -5
A small piece of Rhodonite I collected from a South Vancouver Island beach.  It's only 1cm across it's length so I only tumbled it in pre-polish, then polish because I didn't want it to get any smaller.  Rhodonite is a rare find on a beach here. The best source is prospecting for run-off below the Hill 60 site in Cowichan Lake. There are very few places where it is legal to collect it nowadays... Here is some rough I bought (at 75c/ounce!) that came from Hill 60.  Rhodonite weathers black on the surface as you can see but a well executed strike with the pointy end of a rock hammer will reveal the crystal matrix ranging from light pink-fuscia-dark purply pink in color. |
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ameasha
starting to shine!
Member since January 2006
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Post by ameasha on Jan 28, 2006 0:54:04 GMT -5
:)Hi everyone, I'm from Ontario Canada, actually I live about 20 minute from Brantfod Ontario, and about 1 hour from London Ontario. As far as what kind of rocks I have, I have no idea. I haven't as of yet learned the names of the rocks I have, but I have a huge amount of all different colours, shapes and sizes. I am sure I'll learn from here. I have gathered them from the Nith River, the road, the gravel pit. My husband is a construction worker for the roads in the summer and he collects rocks from everywhere he goes, even as far as Bracebridge Ontario, he also brought me a slab that has pinks,with blacks running through it with a sparkly
shine thoughout the entire slab from the North Bay area. I have no idea what it is called but it is beautiful. Unfortunately I have no way of put pics up, but some day soon I hope.
Ameasha
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Post by entrerh9 on Feb 24, 2006 14:48:18 GMT -5
Great idea!
I'm from South-Central Pennsylvania. Rocks of interest to tumbling folk would be ganister and other forms of orthoquartzite; some mostly crappy quartz; lots of cherty rock of various qualities and colors; nineteenth-century iron-furnace slag; some interesting railroad ballast(gabbros and tough granite gneisses), siltstone/shale concretions; clear green glass marbles and clear green glass marble pieces(these are the raw material for a local fiberglass plant and much of this raw material ends up scattered around the plant... the marbles are various sizes and often contain exterior imperfections that will tumble out... the largest pieces are about 1&1/4" in diameter); and an EXTREMELY tough, well consolidated gray-white conglomorate that is full of milky quartz pebbles of various sizes.
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Post by gemkoi on Feb 26, 2006 20:49:22 GMT -5
From-Apahce Jct, AZ
Got- Tons of rough, 1000's of finished gems and cabochons. Everything from good ole-leavrites to Larimar.
I love fire agate hunting and hiking in the supersititions.
good friends with Banjo-creek
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aunuts
fully equipped rock polisher
Some days are gold, some are rocks. Either is cool.
Member since March 2006
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Post by aunuts on Mar 1, 2006 1:54:09 GMT -5
We're full time RV'ers so kind of follow the sun. Right now we're in Quartzsite, AZ. Members of the Quartzsite Roadrunners Gem & Mineral Club. Got quartz, quartzite, rhyolite (banded & birdseye), hematite, Apache tears, lots & lots of different types of jasper, desert roses, chalcedony, chrysacola, gold, & other stuff I can't think of right now. Will be spending the summer in Seiad Valley, N. CA. prospecting for gold, but also hunting for some really fine quality jade & jadeite. Not sure what else there is up there as gold kind of takes precedence during the summer. Winter is rocks & summer is gold. Oh yeah, we find some nice size garnets when we do the clean up on our gold at the end of the day. Not big enough or good enough to facet tho.
aunuts
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mershira
starting to shine!
Member since February 2006
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Post by mershira on Mar 1, 2006 21:02:31 GMT -5
Hi everyone!! I'm from Michigan, new to rock tumbling. Got tumbler for daughter as a chirstmas gift and i love it just as much as she does. Went down to Georgia Hogg mine and JXR a couple weeks ago and got some very nice stuff. Can't wait for it to get warmer here so i can see what type of rock Michigan has.
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RedwoodRocks
freely admits to licking rocks
Member since March 2003
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Post by RedwoodRocks on Mar 3, 2006 1:25:45 GMT -5
Hey Aunuts, I fish up on the Klamath River. Stopped going because it was too far for a weekend trip. But, one of the books on Gem Collecting in Oregon notes that some of the creeks that feed the Klamath have rhodonite and jade. I think the creeks are pretty close to Seiad Valley. If you want info where to look, send me a PM.
Cal
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rallyrocks
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since November 2005
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Post by rallyrocks on Mar 3, 2006 1:41:58 GMT -5
I put on a 2-day rally up in the Klamath Forest in July, I've found some nice serpentine/ jade (not exactly sure which, seems too hard to be serpentine like I find it other places) in the mountains above Horse Creek- I'll be up that way a few times in advance to lay out the course, maybe we'll run into each other on one of those trips.
The lure of gold prospecting has always piqued my interest too, I've run into a few characters up that way that seem to eek out a pretty decent living at it
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Slydog
has rocks in the head
Member since February 2006
Posts: 555
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Post by Slydog on Mar 4, 2006 19:27:26 GMT -5
I'm new to the Board, and new to the hobby as well. I'm unsure as to where to post this but, I was wondering---anyone going to the Rally in Sturgis this August? I'll be going and I've got a few areas that I want to check out for rocks. I'll be in the Black Hills area in early June too, and hope to do some rock hunting if the weather is good enough. Anyone else going? Anyone from the area who might want to share tips on some places to rockhunt/and or do some looking?
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jrtrio
has rocks in the head
With10 tumblers tumbling the sound is so delicious!Send me more of those little red fellas, please?
Member since February 2006
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Post by jrtrio on Apr 12, 2006 14:58:05 GMT -5
Hi, I'm Joe. I'm one of the lucky ones like those that live in the SW USA. Lots and lots of stones around here in North Carolina. Best part of living in the foothills is we have an Emerald mine just 30 minutes or so away and then depending on what you are looking for depends on if you want to travel west in the mountains, or travel North into the mountains. Lots and lots of mines when you get into the mines. And depending on how much work you want to put into your day depends on what you do. But, the easy way out is to go to the commercial set up that almost all the mines will have where you can buy buckets of dirt either seeded with what you want most or not. Take your pick. But, being close to the Emerald Hollow mine means I don't have to travel very far and they have all sorts of stones and if you are lucky enough to find a good vein of mica to follow then Emeralds aren't too far away...At least that's the way it's told by the "old timers" that have found some of the biggest and purest examples of Emeralds in North Carolina and the USA.
But, I have a son that lives in Orlando and I need a good way for him to learn the area for when I come down and visit. So, anyone from Orlando that knows some good places to hunt for good rock? Please PM me and let me know. Thanks a lot!
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