Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 12, 2011 7:22:02 GMT -5
 Kentucky Agate @ Mountain Mushroom Festival : Irvine, Kentucky Great place to buy kentucky agate and maybe do some swapping. The club also features a chance to pay a small fee and go on agate collecting trips in the nearby creeks. |
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elementary
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Post by elementary on Apr 12, 2011 11:05:59 GMT -5
Uh, when you combine those two things, do you have an easier or harder time collecting the agates?
"I've been chasing this Kentucky Agate all morning. I can't seem to catch it!"
"Bob, that's a chicken!"
"Wild, man, wild! I love this festival!"
"No more mushrooms for you!"
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Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 12, 2011 11:47:12 GMT -5
Well, a lot of it is luck. Those creeks are always running and exposing stuff and the meth heads are out evvery day agate hunting.
So it is never easy. With the festival, they will be leading groups every day up a different creek. So yeah , you'll have twenty folks with ya.
Now, I have been on them creeks, and there is always a few folks out, maybe even 20.
And some of them boys is weird, I tell ya.
The plus side of going with the club is that the proportion of drug addicts hunting for quick agate cash is lowered.
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meta99
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Post by meta99 on Apr 12, 2011 13:54:55 GMT -5
The Agate "Hunt" is held during the work week the week before the festival...Tues-Thur April 26th to 28th, 9am to "late afternoon"...not very conducive to those of us who work for a living...maybe being a meth head has it advantages...like not punching a time clock?
You must register in advance as spots go quickly...google it and you can find their website and the details.
Sue
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Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 12, 2011 14:22:50 GMT -5
I am just geussing that they are doing the hunts during the week because they dont want it to reduce the attendance at the festival.
I think in that area of Kentucky that unemployment is extremely high and lots of people live off of public assistance.
Some of the agates that are found in the creek are as big as water melons. And some of these are good thru and thru , with black and a red ribbon. Finding one of these is an instant two thousand dollars wholesale. There are a couple of ready buyers that immediately purchase them. No questions asked.
Even the baseball sized ones can be relatively valuable with ready buyers that buy them on sight. So this means that an agate find can quickly be converted into a cash payment.
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Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 30, 2011 20:27:34 GMT -5
I am at the show and it is a doozy!  see full size + more pix here: twitpic.com/photos/sio2gaAnd of course, a full report coming soon. Sorry for the small photo size here but twitpic is a bit wonky! |
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meta99
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Post by meta99 on Apr 30, 2011 21:20:14 GMT -5
Just got back from the show...on the drive over there I was thinking how I should've posted in the vendors section about the great box we got from Rodney (one of those "RTH Specials"). We didn't think we were going to make it to the show and he had KY agate for sale.
Had the opportunity to meet Rodney in person. Got some a beautiful JXR amy we wanted, some rainbow pet wood from his trip out west, and a nice little slab of Paint Rock agate to cab. We did get some agate from some other vendors. But a word of warning...the folks that come out for this show are definitely FRINGE...even for rock people!!! We look way too mainstream!!!
Think Farmer's Daughter meets Deliverance...was that banjos I heard? Seriously! We were propositioned on the way out by a seriously rode-hard-put-up-wet character, his wife, teenage daughter and her two year old son. They couldn't afford the cost of a booth at the show but had cut agate in their diaper bag!
I can't say that these people truly represent most Kentuckians, but Rodney's assessment above rings true. We left the show and headed for Ohio...got some nice fossils there...then back home. We didn't take any pictures of the show but I'm glad Rodney got a pic of the tree carved into a morel! The mushrooms were sold out before 10 AM! Look forward to the rest of his report.
Sue
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Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on May 1, 2011 17:48:42 GMT -5
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