Where is a good place to find quartz crystals? As a child I had dreams of finding crystals and as adult I have walked my whole life with my head down looking...
Hello Everyone! In the past month wy wife and I worked out a deal to buy the popular site, The-Vug.com from the former owner. If you are not familiar with ...
I have a fossilized (horse, cow or buffalo) tooth that I would like to identify. It showed up in a river-side rock pit/quarry in Oklahoma City, but may have...
Hey Everyone Come to Fossils Galore @ http://www.fossilsgalore.com to see all the Fossil Sales. Plus feel free to purchase anything and with every fossil you...
hi i do have a new type of mineral ot is Vanadinite on black matrix hematite , i have beautiful specimens collection offered , for more infos and to order feel...
When I mined opal in Nevada, there were quite a few teeth found. They had it identified. It came from a "three towed horse" which was smaller than a pony, but...
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Dec 5, 2005 6:23 am
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I have quality bookends of various rocks, minerals, fossils, and crystals from all over the World and USA. Some I carved and polished, many "quality...
It was cold, at least according to my dog "Gecko". Either the nights are getting colder or Gecko is getting older. When he came out of the tent in the...
Hello, I will being taking a trip through Baja California and am wondering if anyone has any info on good places to hunt for rocks. Specifically, quartz...
Baja is a big place! I spent ten months working at an orphanage 100 miles south of Ensenada, but still never made it more than halfway down the peninsula!...
After I sent the last message off, I realized I had forgotten to mention a book I found VERY helpful, "Roadside Biology and Geology of Baja California" (or...
The trip to Gold Rock Ranch, CA was a great success. Approximately 20 rock hounds from 7 different Southern California Clubs were in attendance. The weather...
Anyone have some nice pictures that you took on the CFMS Wiley's Well & Gold Rock Ranch field trips? I need a few of them to put with the stores of the field...
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Dec 6, 2005 6:02 pm
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Here is a response I received about the tooth I found.... ===================== The modern Buffalo is Bison Bison. The original colonizer was Bison ...
When I first started collecting rocks, I would pretty much pick up anything that looked cool. However, lately I have done more and more crystal collecting, ...
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the pleasure of reading your well written post to this list. When you said, "....you hold the perfection of a well formed crystal....it's...
CFMS Field Trip to Wiley's Well November 23 - 27, 2005 (Thanksgiving Weekend) by Bob Fitzpatrick CFMS Field Trip Chair South All 88 of us that signed the...
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Dec 9, 2005 4:40 am
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We had a nice summer afternoon wading the river, accessing it from the Paradise Road turnoff. Within an hour, a nice, dramatic (and very cabbable) jasper of...
I need advice from one of you machinery-savvy lapidarists out there. I need to change the wooden boards which face the inside of the vice on my old 24 inch...
I would use a 1/4" high-density fiberboard. This is a dark board, glossy one side, that used to be sold under the trade name "Masonite". I think I have...
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Dec 16, 2005 4:55 pm
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Hello again list: I just wanted to publicly thank all of the great list members who replied to my request for assistance in selecting a species of wood to ...
I want to wish all my Rockhound friends a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year and to all of you who helped with the field trips, I want to say a special...
rurocky2@...
Dec 19, 2005 3:00 am
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Has anyone heard or seen info. on the Pet. Wood Trip to Holbrook in April? I want to give my Club a 'Heads-Up' for next year. Thanks for any help you may have,...
Last Saturday, I happily accepted an invitation from my Needles friends, for an outing to the BLM Turtle Mountains. (South of Needles on Route90) As you drive...
Scientists find major cache of Dodo bird bones Scientists said Friday they found a major cache of bones and likely complete skeletons of the long-extinct Dodo...
Calling all Rockhounds, We are launching a new mineral website. www.liveoakminerals.com Specializing in California pegmatite minerals from well known and ...
