jmeizis
off to a rocking start
Member since June 2006
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Post by jmeizis on Jul 5, 2006 19:26:11 GMT -5
So where do people generally search for their rocks? Not state specific but land area. Do you find them in the middle of the woods, quarries, creek beds, middle of the street. I seem to find a lot of rocks in river beds and the landscaping rocks for flower beds. What about others?
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Post by gemkoi on Jul 6, 2006 12:33:11 GMT -5
I think, generally speaking for new people to rockhounding. A river, wash, gulch, gulley, or what ever it may be called to you. Is a great place to start collecting. The main thing i always keep in mind when seaching a low area cut by water, the rocks there most likley came from a good distance away. So locating a soruce, allot of people will start this way, even the pros.
For me, here in Arizona all you need to do is get outside, peroid. IN my back yard i can dig up Chalcedony roses and even an ocssical fire agate thats weathered off the Goldfiels mtn, 1/2mile up the street. My fossil collecting spots north of payson envlode all forms of collecting. in a dry wash or river, scattered as float on the hillsides, and driect hard rock collecting off legde that can be sometimes 30feet tall. With fossils at every inch.
So really i feel it will come into play with all types of landscape. Another way to collecting Arizona diamond is by sweeping the drit, or raking pine needles.
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