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Fairburn Agates * 2
    #24948961 - 01/28/18 03:12 PM (6 years, 1 day ago)

Just a couple Agates I've come across in my outdoor adventures here at home. The black and blue and white was found in that condition, cut faced and polished, in the backyard of a home my sister purchased in the Black Hills. Wonderful gemstones.



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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: Aircooled]
    #25011384 - 02/21/18 06:26 PM (5 years, 11 months ago)

Beautiful.  Going agate hunting soon myself on the coast.  Also I need to try agate hunting in central oregon and washington.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: Maverick]
    #25040756 - 03/05/18 03:28 PM (5 years, 10 months ago)

The sand on the coast is relentless right now still covering most gravel beds. I'm going out tomorrow to scout again but this year has been slow. I've seen all the beaches open up late as april before though.

I also own the jumpin jeep agate mine in the painted hills of central oregon if you ever want to go.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: passifloracaerulea] * 1
    #25040773 - 03/05/18 03:35 PM (5 years, 10 months ago)

This is probably my best beach find yet this year.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: Aircooled]
    #25115821 - 04/05/18 12:29 PM (5 years, 9 months ago)

I thought agates were all see through but I know nothing about stones. Thats what some guy told me.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: ds442] * 1
    #25120035 - 04/07/18 05:59 AM (5 years, 9 months ago)

Check these fuckers out!. pretty sure I own one of the claims mentioned...
http://agateswithinclusions.com/


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #25120040 - 04/07/18 06:02 AM (5 years, 9 months ago)

I was just getting the dogs together and see what the tides brings me. Still a bit dark though...


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #25120050 - 04/07/18 06:13 AM (5 years, 9 months ago)

I'll be hopping all over the
beaches and rocks today snagging agates, out.. gonna be beat tonight. pics tomorrow. it was rough out there.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #25120862 - 04/07/18 01:33 PM (5 years, 9 months ago)

As spring approaches I'm definitely down to hang out and go houdning- girlfriend and I both love agates!

I'm trying to learn more about all the different geological features in oregon- the great basalt floods 17 million years ago, the stacking on of different rock and sedimentary layers from tectonic plate movement over 200 million years, etc.

Crazy stuff!



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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: Maverick]
    #25152468 - 04/20/18 04:45 AM (5 years, 9 months ago)

Heading out right now before the sunrise, hour and half drive anyway. It's a bit early but them big ones do get spotted with lighths... at just the right timimg. Fuckinig fell in the ocean and wrenched my leg on barnacles the other day. No Bueno.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #25153882 - 04/20/18 05:21 PM (5 years, 9 months ago)

skunked.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: passifloracaerulea] * 1
    #25153999 - 04/20/18 06:30 PM (5 years, 9 months ago)

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passifloracaerulea said:
Check these fuckers out!. pretty sure I own one of the claims mentioned...
http://agateswithinclusions.com/




Thanks for posting that, I didn't know there were agates in the Verde Valley and I'm about to move out there.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: Middleman]
    #25173972 - 04/29/18 04:41 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

In 3 picking seasons, I haven't found any gems or agates or coins on the coast or mountains. No fulgurite, either, but I heard some people spend a lifetime not finding any.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: Adden]
    #25175516 - 04/30/18 12:38 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Most rockhounding places are known about and can be researched. A lot of them are being shutdown right now by Groups like the wildlands project who has been privatizing or buying our blm lands. I witnessed this first hand at the access road to the red canyon trail leading to the orocopia wilderness where there is an old fluorite mine. I was kicked out just after parking at the first pullout. The original blm sign with the map of the area welcoming ohv use was and might still be there. They were big guys in big vehicles. The army was out there too doing something. You're not gonna find something that doesn't occur there. There is also the blm lr2000 site that lists all mineral claims across the us. That doesn't stop people from making new discoveries every year.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #25178095 - 05/01/18 02:39 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Have you been to Ellensburg? for their blue agates?


I just blew my front diff out in the truck the other day and have to drive to Eugene this week to pick a new one up...  I'll be that way if you're down there.


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Re: Fairburn Agates [Re: Maverick]
    #25179865 - 05/02/18 11:44 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

No, it's too hard to find much but if you're lucky I think the ranch still lets people surface collect. Hansen cr is a a for sure easy spot to find and dig. I think they closed the road going in though so you have about a half mile hike in then up now. I lucked out and found someone's tripod and screens when I was last there, left them there in good shape, just borrowed them, and we dug so many nice purple scepters and singles and clusters. Every single shovel scoop from under this old stump pit was loaded. people say it's overdug now but I can't see how that spot could ever become depleted. There are just a lot of pits up there and a lot of tailings. A lot of people love red top mt for agate nodules but I have never done it.


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