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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 21:33:42 GMT -5
Can anybody help me find the chinese writing stone found near Auburn, CA? I saw some recently and it is really nice.
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Post by deserthound on Aug 8, 2014 22:31:19 GMT -5
Its been many yrs but i thought we got this stuff along the Yuba River, we got alot of quartz out of Forrest Hill near auburn..CRS at the moment will have to ask my brother where for sure..  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2014 0:01:49 GMT -5
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Post by deserthound on Aug 9, 2014 17:48:06 GMT -5
I'm sure it came out of the Middle fork of the yuba, and i'm really thinking it was by new bullards Bar lake, at the time we were working both middle fork and north fork..but please dont take my memory as a good source...how big a piece you need, i have more than i'll ever use have no problem parting with some...let me know..no charge "what goes around comes around".
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Post by radio on Aug 10, 2014 17:40:24 GMT -5
I was never able to find any decent stuff around there and was told the main deposit had something built over it. Can't remember if it was a subdivision, strip center or what.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2014 20:26:34 GMT -5
I was told last weekend that opportunity still exists, but the dude with the knowledge is pure profit. He wont take me there.
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Post by radio on Aug 10, 2014 22:15:46 GMT -5
I was told last weekend that opportunity still exists, but the dude with the knowledge is pure profit. He wont take me there. That bites! If you can't find any, PM me. I have one big rectangle of really nice stuff and several slabs |
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Post by catlike on Dec 13, 2016 15:06:42 GMT -5
Its been many yrs but i thought we got this stuff along the Yuba River, we got alot of quartz out of Forrest Hill near auburn..CRS at the moment will have to ask my brother where for sure.. |
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Post by toiv0 on Dec 15, 2016 16:19:29 GMT -5
I know Chinese writing stone is kind of misleading. Here is a couple of samples from MN. These were laying in my garage and it was zero in there this morning. I tried to wet them and it froze to the rock and didn't inhance the writing. Go figure.   |
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Post by johnjsgems on Dec 16, 2016 17:39:21 GMT -5
It is porphery if I remember right. In China they have a similar stone called chrysanthemum and the light parts are in a flower shape. I've seen a very similar material from Zzzzx Road that looks like the Auburn stuff but the patterns are much smaller. Roy that runs the Vista show had it at Stoddard Wells show one year and said it is North of the I-15 up Zzzzx Rd. I heard the Auburn material (huge boulders were dug up when they were building roads up there and they let people haul it away to get rid of it. Auburn is at the top of the "Gold Country" of 49'er fame for the non-Californians.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 19:07:47 GMT -5
I have heard if the zyzzyx material. It's somewhere on the way to death valley. Do you know how to find it? johnjsgems |
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Post by vwfence on Dec 22, 2016 18:11:38 GMT -5
I have found odd pieces of it in the Burro Creek area ,but no big quantity's . I have seen something in Quartzite or Tuscon that looks similar but is orangeish and yellow but i dont know where its found
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Post by vegasjames on Dec 23, 2016 6:43:54 GMT -5
I have found Chinese writing stone here in Southern Nevada South of Searchlight.
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 23, 2016 9:45:59 GMT -5
Yeah, interesting Vegasjames, I knew I had seen some somewhere when out desert collecting and have been racking my brain trying to remember where. It may well have been in the Searchlight area as we made a trip all over that region one time. Been like a zillion years though so it may have been elsewhere too. Think I hunted the California locale with my dad when I was a kid too on a deer hunting trip, but have no idea where that was. Dang ole memory anyway....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2016 10:51:27 GMT -5
I have found Chinese writing stone here in Southern Nevada South of Searchlight. Maybe I hand deliver the green ball and get some Chinese writing stone! |
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Post by vegasjames on Dec 24, 2016 17:57:01 GMT -5
I have found Chinese writing stone here in Southern Nevada South of Searchlight. Maybe I hand deliver the green ball and get some Chinese writing stone! Sure, let me know and I can show you the area where it is found. About 70 miles from here. |
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Post by johnjsgems on Dec 27, 2016 13:40:18 GMT -5
The guy that told me about it (Vista Club Ray or Roy Pierce) said you exit Zzzzx Rd and turn left. Can't remember how far back but he said you see it along the road. I'll ask him again at Stoddard Wells show. He is always there.
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Post by wolfeyez77 on Mar 1, 2020 2:56:37 GMT -5
I realize that this post is fairly old, just over 3 years, but I'm hoping that someone may still know the way to the Chinese Writing rock in Auburn. I live not far away, and have tried looking a couple times with no luck. Yes, I just joined the forum, and yes, this is my first post. Also yes, it's only my word that I'm a recreational rock hunter (and geologist), not in it commercially. I found more of this stone further up Hwy 80, past Yuba Pass, but the matrix wasn't as dark. A fun find, but not quite up to par compared to the Auburn material. There's a small boulder in front of the Geology Dept. at Sacramento State that came from when they were building a housing development, beautiful stuff.
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Post by Peruano on Mar 1, 2020 8:03:01 GMT -5
Welcome, we always need expertise and cooperative attitudes here. It may be that stomping the ground will be the way to find it.
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