Hello to all from montana

weaselguys
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Hello to all from montana Sept 9, 2020 20:40:06 GMT -5 Fossilman and TheRock like this

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Post by weaselguys on Sept 9, 2020 20:40:06 GMT -5

Hello my wife and I just got into rockhounding this year we have made 4 trips out togather and have went so far as wading in a river looking at rocks and looking in the cold and rain. I think we got the bug bad. As of yet we have no books to go by but we have been piking up petrified wood, agates, jasper and chalcedony mainly. I thought I had agate identified pretty good but I just heard from a local rouckhound that agate has to have banding to be agate otherwise it is chalcedony. I may be wrong but I thought chalcedony was more opaque and agate more translucent with or with out banding.

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Hello to all from montana Sept 9, 2020 21:12:07 GMT -5 miket likes this

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Post by jasoninsd on Sept 9, 2020 21:12:07 GMT -5

Welcome from South Dakota! I've got plenty of prairie agates (which aren't really agates) all around where I hound, but am constantly pursuing the elusive Fairburn Agate! One of these days...one of these days!

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taylor has rocks in the head Member since November 2017 Posts: 578	Hello to all from montana Sept 9, 2020 22:35:46 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by taylor on Sept 9, 2020 22:35:46 GMT -5 Welcome!
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Hello to all from montana Sept 9, 2020 22:47:04 GMT -5

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Post by hummingbirdstones on Sept 9, 2020 22:47:04 GMT -5

Welcome from Northern Arizona!

Robin

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

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MsAli
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Hello to all from montana Sept 10, 2020 6:25:51 GMT -5

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Post by MsAli on Sept 10, 2020 6:25:51 GMT -5

Hi and welcome from Mn. We all have been inflicted with the disease and the only cure is more rocks

www.minerals.net/mineral/chalcedony.aspx

There are also some great descriptive threads on here as well that talk about rocks and the identification of them

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jasoninsd can identify rocks - even green ones I Wish I Knew Half The Stuff I Thought I Knew 30 Years Ago! Member since July 2020 Posts: 18,363	Hello to all from montana Sept 10, 2020 6:59:26 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jasoninsd on Sept 10, 2020 6:59:26 GMT -5 I meant to add, there are several great members on here from Montana who I'm sure will be able to point you and your wife in the right direction up there!
	Favorite Quotes: "It always seems impossible until it is done." - Nelson Mandela "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got." - Robert Brault "You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy." - Nightbirde (RIP 2/19/22) My Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/MadBadgerLapidary

opalpyrexia driving up their electric bill Member since February 2017 Posts: 2,729	Hello to all from montana Sept 10, 2020 14:26:49 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by opalpyrexia on Sept 10, 2020 14:26:49 GMT -5 Welcome from Washington.
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weaselguys having dreams about rocks Member since September 2020 Posts: 68	Hello to all from montana Sept 11, 2020 14:22:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by weaselguys on Sept 11, 2020 14:22:09 GMT -5 Thanks guys
	Robert Our camping web site www.campingbastards.com/ Our youtube channel campingbastards dot com www.youtube.com/channel/UCTz-mypxsUnwLVx7CAXqn-A Our Etsy store www.etsy.com/shop/HillbillyRocksNMore Our Ebay store www.ebay.com/str/hillbillyrocksnmore

Fossilman Cave Dweller Member since January 2009 Posts: 20,715	Hello to all from montana Sept 13, 2020 9:50:42 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fossilman on Sept 13, 2020 9:50:42 GMT -5 Howdy from Oregon.... Montana is my home state, with Roundup, MT my home town... Lots of petwood, Montana moss agate and jasper in the Yellowstone River, from Livingston to Sidney..
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