Geoff
spending too much on rocks
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Post by Geoff on Feb 7, 2014 19:34:03 GMT -5
I'm coming down to the lesser 48 this week and was hoping to get out and kick some rocks for a day. I'll be in Hanford, Ca from Monday to Saturday. I'd love to go hunt minerals, but rocks would be ok too. If anyone wants to go do some weekday hounding or has recommendations on where to go, let me know.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 0:09:11 GMT -5
Hanford is pretty much BFE. Maybe some poppy jaspers in the foothills east of town? Sabre52 can you help Geoff?
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Steve
has rocks in the head
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Post by Steve on Feb 12, 2014 0:57:48 GMT -5
I grew up not far from Hanford - no longer live in that area. If you have time go west to the Coalinga area. Talk to the locals. You can find petrified wood and petrified sea shells and creatures there. Otherwise the area is mostly dust. It used to be the bottom of the ocean, there so most of the soil and rocks are fairly recent. There are gypsum mines south of Hanford. They used to mine uranium south of Coalinga. Lots of oil and tar a bit north of Hanford. If you're willing to go as far as Paso Robles, Atasadero there are some very active rock hounds there. eclecticarcania.blogspot.com/
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Sabre52
Cave Dweller
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 12, 2014 9:14:41 GMT -5
Unfortunately, most my old poppy sites are either on private land, under claim or impossible to find without me as a guide cause the pits are off in the brush. Porterville is not far from Hanford and has tons of jade and thulite but again, all private land. Good chiastolite crystals on public roads a few spots in the Mariposa County foothills. Easy to find and collect. Fine crystals are in the roadbed and roadsides of Whiterock Road approx 2-2 1/2 miles north of junction with W. westfall Road. When you are at the right spot you should see two small ponds on the NW side of the road. Collecting area is I believe on the road closer to the second pond. Nice crystals with cross inclusions but mostly broken into sections by erosion. Sizes run to 1/2 inch by three inches long. Supposed to be much bigger crystals down closer to Westfall Road but I've never managed to find the site. Further north by Catheys Valley, Indian Gulch Road by twin buttes has small clear chiastolite crystals in slate and wonderful pyrophyllite specimens. I stupidly left a fantastic pyrophyllite specimen from there at our old ranch when I sold it. Dead ringer for the one in my rock book which was also from Indian Gulch.....Mel
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