matt2432
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since December 2014
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Post by matt2432 on Jan 11, 2015 14:24:43 GMT -5
Nice find, I wish I knew where to find stuff like that around here! www.dmr.nd.gov/ndfossil/
start here! Looks like you have some great resources in your state!
Thanks Snowmom, some good info on there. Basically I'll have to find some private land to collect on.
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Post by gingerkid on Jan 11, 2015 15:10:43 GMT -5
broseph82, have you had a chance to cut the rattler geodes yet?
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 11, 2015 18:06:21 GMT -5
broseph82, have you had a chance to cut the rattler geodes yet? I've cut a couple from the Elk river. Nothing to brag about too much there. The ones from TN, no I have not.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 16:20:09 GMT -5
Years ago, went with a club geode hunting. How you determined if they could be hollow is find a "rattler" first. Then when you pick up one that is not, compare the weight of the two. At least 70 percent of the time it would be hollow. During this one trip, boaters were watching us and there were about 30 or so collectors picking up geodes and shaking them. One boater came up to us and wanted to know what we were doing. Told him and he started laughing. At first he thought we were all from the funny farm out on a field trip ! I got to thinking about and I reckon we did look like "nuts" along the shoreline. Should a told him those were petrified wood tree seeds and you were looking for ripe ones to germinate. Hope to grow a forest of petrified wood because you are starting a new furniture company. Chairs and tables made of home grown petrified wood.
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Fossilman
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 17, 2015 10:41:27 GMT -5
broseph82, have you had a chance to cut the rattler geodes yet? I've cut a couple from the Elk river. Nothing to brag about too much there. The ones from TN, no I have not. I have a few TN geodes,most are not worth cutting...
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 17, 2015 22:45:54 GMT -5
I've cut a couple from the Elk river. Nothing to brag about too much there. The ones from TN, no I have not. I have a few TN geodes,most are not worth cutting... Mine actually are. Just pretty clear to white to smokey quartz crystals
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Post by fantastic5 on Jan 19, 2015 13:04:56 GMT -5
Here are a few of my favorite TN geodes that I collected early last year. This is the site I gave broseph82 directions to. We were about 6 months too late for the best specimens and Jimi was almost year out from that. It's a shame that the state just blasted through all of this material building a road, then trucked it up a hill and buried it. This one is my favorite. The colors are a little better than in the photo. The dolomite and calcite really are different colors. Different angle. Hasn't been cleaned yet in this photo. This guy has iridescence on the calcite. Really hard to capture in a still image.
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jojo
off to a rocking start
Member since January 2015
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Post by jojo on Jan 19, 2015 20:26:02 GMT -5
Gorgeous, Where did you find them?
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Post by snowmom on Jan 20, 2015 5:24:15 GMT -5
Ann- WOW
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Post by fantastic5 on Jan 20, 2015 8:39:33 GMT -5
Gorgeous, Where did you find them? Tennessee road construction was taking place on Hwy 70S between McMinnville and Woodbury starting 2 years ago. They cut through a small hill and literally blasted these to pieces. I missed the best collecting by 6 months. I can't even begin to imagine what I would have found if I had been there from the beginning. You can still walk the site and pick up small intact geodes weathering out of the ground. But for some reason it appears that the ones closer to the surface have only quartz. We have found chalcedony, smokey quartz, dolomite, pyrite, calcite and I was working next to one person who found a very small deep purple fluorite cube. Here is one of the last piles before they were trucked up the hill and buried. All the white spots you can see are vugs filled with crystals. Many were in such solid chunks of limestone they were impossible to break free. One that was too big to do anything with. The vug was well over a foot from top to bottom and the rock was the size of a refrigerator. Forgot to put anything for size.
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jojo
off to a rocking start
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Post by jojo on Jan 20, 2015 22:17:14 GMT -5
Those are incredible! I'm always looking at construction sites, but I really don't know what to look for. I don't think we have anything like those in our area.
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 25, 2015 23:42:08 GMT -5
Those are incredible! I'm always looking at construction sites, but I really don't know what to look for. I don't think we have anything like those in our area. Just keep your head down. If you think something looks interesting then pick it up! Don't have to worry about if someone else thinks it's x,y, or z. There are rocks in every state. Just go look!
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