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Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. 1
#26207075 - 09/24/19 04:59 PM (4 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't know about you but I absolutely love nature and everything that it's willing to offer.
I want to talk with like minded people and share our favorite finds of rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones and let's not leave out Indian artifacts👍🏻
I have a few to share just to get the ball rollin





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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: kd87] 1
#26283358 - 10/28/19 08:16 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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All fossils. Found in the midwest.
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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: lowbrow]
#26394739 - 12/21/19 10:41 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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man i got a lot of specimens not enough time for anything. ill probably load some to this threadfrom time to time
rim of dry wash in the desert open to being wrong on some id's. Geology no joke you guys who do that are badass. im trying to catch up

few miles down wash

some nicer stuff from that deposit. very unique place. where hydrogeographic divide 5-10 miles wide or ceases to exist.

gold in quartz columbia r drainage

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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: MadMuncher]
#26403033 - 12/27/19 01:16 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I own a bunch of gem claims. My personal pic is material from my agate claim.
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I have a couple of other stones, but these are my favorite ones
The first one is a Labradorite gem that was given to me by someone and has sentimental value to me. It goes everywhere with me and has the prettiest colors when the sun hits it from the right angle.

The second one is an unidentified stone that I found when I went on holiday in Namibia. I saw the unique pattern on it and decided it would be the perfect thing to remind me of the trip I went on.
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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: Isosymmetric] 1
#26451376 - 01/25/20 07:31 AM (4 years, 4 days ago) |
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Nice collection madmuncher. I'm in Missouri I only have limited resources here.
Is that fire agate pass? It's a nice piece love it
Metric what is that? That's a cool stone you found on your trip. Nice find I thought that labradorite was opal at first. Idk much about labradorite
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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: kd87] 1
#26456826 - 01/28/20 01:06 PM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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thanks 87 placer gold yukon river drainages


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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: MadMuncher] 1
#26456858 - 01/28/20 01:22 PM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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From 2019 thundereggs, 2 formations abandoned mines jaspers fossil hunter


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#26490892 - 02/17/20 10:18 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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native treasures
stone point artifacts from northwestern and central northern n. america. small metal arrowhead from wartime in northern great plains area (recycled scrap metal)


fossil bones, antler, walrus ivory hair clip

walrus ivory ulu (woman's knife)

mammoth tooth fragments



i have an obsidian buffalo spear grandpa gave me. its here somewhere hold on..
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#26561196 - 03/27/20 01:31 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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#26562212 - 03/27/20 10:02 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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from the coast a month or so ago not sure what the blue green stuff is ive been call it jaspermaybejade but it seems fairly soft compared to jade and the host rock is strange
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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: MadMuncher] 1
#26565120 - 03/29/20 11:29 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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That's cool. How big is the spear head?
My parents found a rock that had been obviously shaped, bout the size of a fist with one flattened end, I'm almost certain it was used as a handaxe. These things are everywhere really. Not surprising when you consider toolmakers lived here for more than 10,000 years and one person would have had many tools. Better our climate and vegetation seems to offer alot of protection from the elements and then occasional rains and snowmelt washes them out of their niches.
All the arrowheads I've found so far are quartzine. And they're larger than the arrowhead most folk typically display.
I imagine being made of a stronger stone and with a longer point it would have been better at taking down big game. Or possibly maybe as a weapon of war. Or maybe spearing fish. I don't know. But pondering it interests me.

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#26565138 - 03/29/20 11:37 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I mostly collect quartz crystals though. My office is by some veins and all that construction dug alot up to the surface. A park nearby has them wash out of hills.
People used to walk/drive by and as if I was okay as I hunched over looking for crystals. Sometimes I'd explain what I was doing. Most were like "oh... okay..." but lately I've seen alot of other people doing it. I'm torn between being slightly jealous that they might find the good stuff and super happy that other people are taking the time and risking looking weird to enjoy the little details of the world around them. I'm more leaning toward that mindset because it's super cool.




Other than that I find alot of coal. Only really turned out useful that time when I thought it'd be cute to give everyone coal for christmas.
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#26565450 - 03/29/20 02:43 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hey everyone. New to this part of the site.. I got a recurve bow recently so I’ve been in the woods a lot more often. Ostensibly to stump shoot and practice distances but I often end up in the stream looking for fossils and just exploring. It’s really fun : )
I’ve found a million things back there but these are my only “whole” finds. 3 clam type critters and one like a scallop. Then there are the strange brown stick like things. I have no clue what they are but you can just tell they’re super old.
The hilly woods behind my house are actually sediment piles from when the area was under water off and on 5-23 million years ago. Crazy. I’m hoping for a megalodon tooth one day but I may have to look elsewhere.
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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: Roger Clemency]
#26565489 - 03/29/20 02:57 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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that is badass great work. love the old laxitive bottle thats sick
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#26565559 - 03/29/20 03:24 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thanks man. I like the bottles too. I found an old milk bottle with George Washington face on it once too. It was really cool but I can’t find it now.
I also found a cool ceramic bottle with a neat fitting lid but that’s lost. One day I’m going to actually put my knee high rubber boots on and take a lil hand shovel. All these I just find laying in the stream. The heavy rains always expose new stuff and the woods are basically hell on earth in the summer so around October it’s like a whole new unexplored stream.
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Re: Share: rocks,minerals,fossils,gemstones etc. [Re: Roger Clemency]
#26565567 - 03/29/20 03:28 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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snake country or something? why is summertime hell on earth there? i assume from your collections youre in central USA/midwestish what region you in?
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#26565808 - 03/29/20 05:53 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Oh just because it’s so hot and humid and the woods are super thick. Spider webs, ticks, insane briars, and poison ivy everywhere.
You can get down there to the stream and walk freely with boots but it’s just a serious pain in the summer so I mostly give it over to the bugs until October.
I’m in Maryland near the Chesapeake bay.
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#26567660 - 03/30/20 04:01 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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very cool. i bet there's all kinds of old stuff floating around there do you ever dig through the gravel bars in the waterways over there? what are those smaller pinkish polished stones in your first pic?
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CookieCrumbs said: That's cool. How big is the spear head?
My parents found a rock that had been obviously shaped, bout the size of a fist with one flattened end, I'm almost certain it was used as a handaxe. These things are everywhere really. Not surprising when you consider toolmakers lived here for more than 10,000 years and one person would have had many tools. Better our climate and vegetation seems to offer alot of protection from the elements and then occasional rains and snowmelt washes them out of their niches.
All the arrowheads I've found so far are quartzine. And they're larger than the arrowhead most folk typically display.
I imagine being made of a stronger stone and with a longer point it would have been better at taking down big game. Or possibly maybe as a weapon of war. Or maybe spearing fish. I don't know. But pondering it interests me.


most spear points are a lot smaller than people imagine

jt was perfectly balanced it spun like a top on both sides. i gently set it down on a granite counter top when i was a teenager and it cracked in half 
they really are everywhere. i found a red jasper arrowhead on top of a mountain last summer and a whole bunch of knappings and tools around old campsites in the desert not sure if i have pics of them..
bet theres all kinds of cool stuff in and around those quartz deposits cookie. those are cool points they look really old. bows and arrows were used more recently those might be spear points
should dig around those quartz deposits bet theres gold, silver, copper, galena, maybe some cool jems too
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#26569538 - 03/31/20 04:45 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I’m not sure what they are, they just looked pretty in the stream so I grabbed them up. They get a little crusty looking when they’re dry but look cool wet.
The big chunky rock is real chaotic up close and the little pink one has a couple white things inside or something.

I haven’t ever messed around in the bigger water but I’m sure you could find all kinds of crazy things if you knew how to look.
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