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Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? 2
#24791007 - 11/18/17 07:03 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Recently got into hunting gems and other precious / semi precious minerals in my area. Would be great to have a place to help each other ID rocks wouldn’t it? It’s harder than it sounds lol but it’s hella fun getting out there to search!
I think I may have found a pretty large aquamarine crystal, will post pics of the thread gains any interest.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Zombi3]
#24791019 - 11/18/17 07:14 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bunch a crap around here, for the most part. Someone did find a hunk of quartz with gold a couple counties away. The item was worth 50k.
I did find some very tiny garnet and one possibly ruby that is far from gem quality. Not exactly sure what it is, but it fluoresces.
There is the belief that there is a lot of gold as well. Miles deep in bedrock. Curious what this area will be in the far far distant future. If mankind gets there.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Zombi3]
#24791227 - 11/18/17 09:23 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Zombi3 said: Recently got into hunting gems and other precious / semi precious minerals in my area. Would be great to have a place to help each other ID rocks wouldn’t it? It’s harder than it sounds lol but it’s hella fun getting out there to search!
I think I may have found a pretty large aquamarine crystal, will post pics of the thread gains any interest.
So post it. More likely tourmaline tho. Which does look really nice in green.
The thing alot of new hounds don't realize is that the desirable minerals are desirable because they come in veins and pockets. So the same hill top could be nothing but gravel on the way up and half way over the othet side and then have a deposit at the next base. Takes a lot of time and patience.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Zombi3] 1
#24792243 - 11/18/17 06:28 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Let's see your find. Here's a garnet I found right on top, it has some nice sqaure facets:


Prospecting is hard. I've hiked 20 miles out and everything on top is picked out, even on cliff edges...
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Middleman]
#24793325 - 11/19/17 09:53 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Not very active, but there is a user created sub-forum - Crystals, Gems, Rocks, & Minerals
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: foragedfungus] 2
#24793359 - 11/19/17 10:15 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'd love to somehow stimulate some activity over there.
But the Outdoors forum in general gets little enough attention
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Zombi3]
#24793419 - 11/19/17 10:41 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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I like to hunt for minerals, fossils and Native American artifacts. I found a bunch of tektite in this one area, indicative of a meteor strike! It's kinda cold to go hunting now, but it would be cool if there was a geologist here to help identify some of our finds.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: teknix]
#24795173 - 11/20/17 08:44 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Passiflora makes a living as a prospector. He definitely knows his shit. He had been pulling aquamarine but I don't think I've read any details since he lost some fingers. Don't remember how.
But I think his thread on Colorado aquamarine is what really drew me to this forum. I have seen him hop in a number of forums to help someone with an ID.
Colorado seems pretty well saturated with prospectors and novice hounds that pick the scraps tho. Damn hippies taking all the rocks
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#24796161 - 11/20/17 04:46 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yo I fuckin found the trippiest rock today and I can not identify it at all I’ve been reading up trying to ID it for like 2 hours and I’ve gotten nowhere.
Ill post some pics within the hour y’all gunna like this.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Zombi3]
#24796244 - 11/20/17 05:21 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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I found this crystal when I was like 8 or something. It was laying loose on top of a freshly plowed corn field that was behind our house. I’ve had it ever since then and regardless of what it is I’ve always been really fond of it.
It is not magnetic and other than a few very small specs it doesn’t glow under UV. But the tiny specs which do glow a bit under UV emit a soft pink colour, which I could not get a good picture of. If you look close there’s still a small piece of whatever rock it came out of attached on one side about halfway down and on the flat end you can see a small piece of what appears to be a red crystal fragment, that fragment also emits a soft pink glow under UV.
As a kid I thought it was petrified wood, then I thought maybe green beryl, then one day I was stoned and thought maybe it was an emerald, now I’m hoping it’s an aquamarine but honestly it can be some random ass quartz and it still won’t change how fond of it I am.
Whatcha all think?
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Zombi3] 1
#24796280 - 11/20/17 05:44 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Here’s the fucking cool one 

I found this today while hiking to a waterfall along the Niagara Escarpment, real nice one the first drop is 72ft, actually here’s a pic!
 I was on my way to this creepy as fuck abandoned mine that I heard was accessible now.
 Yea it’s accessible but I absolutely did not have the balls to go in by myself lol. There’s supposed to be a hell of a lot of tunnels in there tho so as soon as the water freezes me and the crew are buying that ticket and taking that ride!
Anyway so I’m walkimg and I’m smoking and I’m walking and I’m smoking and I happen to trail across that trippy friggin rock. It was sort of burried a little but not much and I looked for the rest of it but couldn’t find anything else. I may have another look tomorrow again.
I can not find any info at all about any rock even slightly resembling that thing. Maybe my google skills are slacking these days? It’s not magnetic, does not glow under UV, and the trippy thing is as soon as I got home I noticed the green colour start to fade. It’s noticeable to the naked eye but pictures aren’t doing it justice yet so once it fades more I’ll post another pic. It’s chamging from a glassy green to a lesser glassy white/clear colour and also appears to have more cracks than earlier.
That is all the info I have about it. I definitely wanna know what this thing is! Meteorite maybe? That’s honestly my best guess but I don’t know much about rocks...
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Zombi3]
#24797841 - 11/21/17 01:28 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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is this a fairly new hobby to you?
where i am at, we dont have a bunch of cool stones laying around. lots of mines and shit, but they have all been closed off for the 'safety' of the public. all we have is cool random ass shit left out in the desert.
cool ass water fall though.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: Zombi3]
#24802857 - 11/23/17 08:01 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm about it! In the area that I'm in right now there aren't many interesting things, but in my travels I have found a lot of cool stuff!
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: RockyRaccoon] 1
#24812196 - 11/28/17 03:46 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Found brick sized chunk of Garnet embedded quartz out hunting for Ganoderma Applanatum in southeast pa
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: zannabis]
#24816707 - 11/30/17 12:12 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nice.
Would like to get into it. Ive only found cool looking rocks, no gems or crystals yet.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#24816714 - 11/30/17 12:17 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I can find Herkimer Diamonds (basically just double terminated quartz) a few hours away. Nothing too fancy, but they are pretty cool, and a lot of fun to mine for.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: RockyRaccoon]
#24821088 - 12/02/17 11:33 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Herkimers are beautiful. I'd love to go out to the mines one day.
Eh but whoever decided to open the public mines are pretty bright. Their custom is probably far more profitable than the quartz deposites.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#24821092 - 12/02/17 11:34 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I found my best herks in areas near the mines.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: RockyRaccoon]
#24821174 - 12/02/17 12:17 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's so funny. I've seen so many people throw out pretty damn decent stones because they're looking for something very particular. Not to mention it just gets washed out by rains and drains. Most of my colored quartz and amazonite compounds have been found in or near scrap piles at public mine washing stations.
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Re: Any gemstone hunters or “rockhounds” as the kids call em on here? [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#24821504 - 12/02/17 02:36 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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The first time I went to one of the Herk mines, it was a spur of the moment thing, and I didn't check the weather. It rained buckets all fucking day.
It did pay off though, I found a lot of beautiful smaller pieces because osf the shimmer caused by the rain. If you want to get serious about it, you should bring your own equipment and look for the pockets. They have camping at one of the mines and there is a KOA nearby. Make a weekend of it!
I am even considering a small claim in that area, although I'm not sure what it would cost.
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