88pathoffroad
spending too much on rocks
Oregon ROCKS!
Member since August 2008
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Post by 88pathoffroad on Sept 12, 2009 23:33:26 GMT -5
I went to visit my mom near Mt. Hood, Oregon a while back and stopped to collect a bit on the way...hadn't had a chance to take pics until today. Chabazite crystals from Shellrock Mountain in the Columbia Gorge on the Oregon side (approx 1/8"): Blue banded agate nodules from a roadside boulder on the Washington side of the Gorge near Little White Salmon fish hatchery on SR14 (Lewis and Clark Highway): Amethyst/quartz crystals in a pocket from a different rock further down the road from the agate one (approx 2" pocket): The boulder with the quartz crystals is formidable! Covered in pockets full of beautiful little perfect quartz crystals...some pockets were 3-4", most were 1" or so. It took a 3-lb hammer, 8" cold chisel and a lot of hammering to free the chunk with that pocket in it. I was lucky to score the one piece. The rest of the boulder is pretty much crack-free, you'd be there for days with hand tools trying to remove a different pocket.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Sept 13, 2009 13:29:08 GMT -5
Awesome pics!!
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Post by Toad on Sept 13, 2009 14:01:12 GMT -5
Great finds.
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Post by tkrueger3 on Sept 13, 2009 14:30:42 GMT -5
Wow. I can't even imagine finding stuff like that on the side of the road down here. What we have on the side of the road, generally, is a limestone powder and gravel mixture called "caliche (ka-lee-chee), with some beer cans, tater chip bags, dirty baby diapers, old wore-out mattresses, cactus, scorpions, snakes, and a bit of roadkill all mixed in. But finding really pretty stuff like you found? No way. ;D
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