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Post by nich on Aug 16, 2017 3:08:50 GMT -5
Anything here? I am on vacation here right now and for the last 3 days i have walked along the beach and in the water, sitting ,bending , and crawling through rocks and all I have been able to get is 5 blisters and a very very bad sunburn and a few pieces of glass......I think I am just missing stuff, since I have a hard time knowing what to look for and identifying the agate, I think the petosky will be much easier and I know what to look for I'm just not seeing any here.. any tips on how to identify agates? Or does anyone know of any better places here beside just walking the waters edge and beach areas around the island that I might have some luck.. my kids think I'm nuts but I keep saying ,, I put days in already " I AM GOING TO GET at least 1 of something" ..
any tips? Identifying agates or better locations on the island??
Thanks again,,,
nich
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Post by fantastic5 on Aug 16, 2017 7:01:16 GMT -5
I grew up in Michigan and it has been many many years since I was on Mackinaw Island, but in that area you technically should be able to find petoskey stones, but agates are Lake Superior (I believe). Maybe Jugglerguy and Drummond Island Rocks can weigh in. |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 16, 2017 7:20:44 GMT -5
Mackinaw might be a little too far north to find any Petoskey stones. I have found them as far south as Port Huron on Lake Huron and have heard of them as far north as Rogers City. You would have a a little better chance of finding a pudding stone on Mackinaw. I have never actually heard any reports of rock hounding mackinaw so I don't have much to go on. I just got back today from Drummond Island about 40 miles east of Mackinaw and did real well finding lots more pudding stones.
Chuck
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 16, 2017 9:50:08 GMT -5
I've never looked for rocks on Mackinac Island either. I can't add much to what Ann and Chuck said. Shouldn't be agates in Lake Huron, and I'm not sure about a Petoskey Stones and Pudding stones. If you're in an area where lots of other people have been in the water, the rocks may be very picked over. I try to go where other people can not easily get to. Public beaches are not usually good places to look for rocks unless you walk farther than most.
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Post by nich on Aug 16, 2017 20:19:15 GMT -5
Mackinaw might be a little too far north to find any Petoskey stones. I have found them as far south as Port Huron on Lake Huron and have heard of them as far north as Rogers City. You would have a a little better chance of finding a pudding stone on Mackinaw. I have never actually heard any reports of rock hounding mackinaw so I don't have much to go on. I just got back today from Drummond Island about 40 miles east of Mackinaw and did real well finding lots more pudding stones. Chuck Can you tell me how to better identify actual pudding stone.... i had never seen one of them until someone one the site posted a picture... I have seen some of the rough pudding stones online for help but it seems that so many of them just look like clumps of concrete with rocks mushed in them like those man made barriers... but then they are so neat when they are polished. Is their any way to help me know that I am actually picking Up pudding stones.. if you have any info. Thanks I know sometimes it hard to explain this stuff online. |
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 16, 2017 20:57:11 GMT -5
The red jasper in a pudding stone is very bright red. They jump right out at you. I sort of think they look like concrete too, but there aren't many rocks that look like that. There is one similar rock called goganda tillite that is a dark colored rock with smaller rocks imbedded. Pudding stones are light colored, either white or sort of a yellowish color. Sometimes they're pinkish. Pudding stones on the right:  A few gowganda tillites are on the right.    |
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 16, 2017 21:32:50 GMT -5
The red jasper in a pudding stone is very bright red. They jump right out at you. I sort of think they look like concrete too, but there aren't many rocks that look like that. There is one similar rock called goganda tillite that is a dark colored rock with smaller rocks imbedded. Pudding stones are light colored, either white or sort of a yellowish color. Sometimes they're pinkish. Pudding stones on the right: A few gowganda tillites are on the right. Awesome set of pudding stones Rob. Unique Petoskeys. You showed him his quarry and redirected him very well. Cant beat you three. Chuck is such a pro. Never heard of the Gowganda . Looks very interesting. Conglomerate that looks like our Telluride conglomerate . nich Solid information from really good people from that area. Doesn't hurt to buy a couple specimens from a local rock shop to better identify and to ask them for local hounding advice . if you want get to get the material as recommended here, I would travel. These folks know their rocks.
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Post by nich on Aug 16, 2017 23:16:59 GMT -5
THANKS A LOT, I absolutely agree with you, the info. from everyone here is always helpful and even more important to me is that it is polite and no one is treat like an idiot because they don't know something that others think is so easy or common that everyone should know. Many other forum can get VERY rude. That's why I always find myself back here and it is the first place I think of when I need info. I can't post often because in our area cellular or satellite are the only option for internet but the forest causes blockage and our internet is extremely slow but when I am somewhere with faster internet I am right back here... i was at a store that sold a lot of petosky stuff, they had a couple samples of pudding stone and they had lots of different agates, but looking all polished and shaped stuff is much different than finding rough, if I don't know what I am trying to spot I just get lost... so I look online but people post so many different ideas of what it is or looks like. I am going to try and post a couple of the pictures that really stumped me because they are so different than what I thought of as pudding stones... what are they because they were listed under pudding stones but they don't look like it to me,, Attachments:
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 17, 2017 7:35:56 GMT -5
The first pic looks like asphalt to me. Not sure what the second is, but possibly concrete with cool aggregate. Those are definitely not pudding stones. Look for red. If there's no red it's not a pudding stone worth I picking up.
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Post by nich on Aug 17, 2017 8:11:00 GMT -5
The first pic looks like asphalt to me. Not sure what the second is, but possibly concrete with cool aggregate. Those are definitely not pudding stones. Look for red. If there's no red it's not a pudding stone worth I picking up. That is EXACTLY what I thought also.. |
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Post by nich on Aug 17, 2017 8:35:33 GMT -5
Well, we are going to be driving back to Chicago in a day or so,, going to map it out and see if there is anywhere to stop and try to search for a couple goodies... but I guess for me they are all goodies, I always feel so dumb picking up these rocks that are complete junk to everyone else but I think it's got pretty colors or pattern, I just try to see if they clean up or polish up at all , so I have them for our memory stuff and to kind of mess around with. I loved South Dakota and even North Dakota rocks, for decades living there I always found tons of good stuff, but now I always try and hunt on vacation/trips since illinois has not been good to me for rockhounding, I think it has just caused me to develop an addiction to granite, since it is about the only think I can find within hours of me... Well, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU...... wish me luck finding someplace to check out on our way back.. maybe I will find something that actually has a name for it rather than a rock.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 17, 2017 8:54:10 GMT -5
Who cares if a rock has a name? When I go up to Lake Superior, I pick up anything that looks good to me. It's a thrill when I find and agate, but those are few and far between, I bring home buckets of unidentified pretty rocks. Most of them even tumble well.
Which side of Lake Michigan are you driving home on? There are Petoskey stones in the Petoskey to Traverse City area. There are lightning stones in the southern part of the lake, although I couldn't really tell you where. I have no idea what the west side of Lake Michigan has to offer.
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Post by nich on Aug 17, 2017 21:10:58 GMT -5
Ooooh..... I completely forgot I think we are driving right by there,,,lucky for me my husband drives I just get to sit and read or nap, so I never pay attention to where or what we are by... and it's yucky here in Mackinac, raining and nothing to do but get stuck in a hotel....so we may be taking off early,,, thanks
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