Post by elementary on Dec 31, 2010 19:07:43 GMT -5
With winter break happening, I called a friend to see if he could go rockhounding the day after Christmas. My father and I go every year at this time - usually to the Hauser Geode Beds - but this time I wanted to go back to the Southern Cady's where all the recent activity has been going on.
Well, my friend called another and another and another and we had 12 people and 6 vehicles heading out to the S. Cady's. We hit the same spot as Woody and I visited a month ago.
Here's another picture looking down into the valley where the I-40 cuts across.
This time we were heading to the next ridge in from the slope I have been finding the red moss agate. Here it is seam agate.
It was overcast so it was hard to judge the depth of the agate I was prying out of the ridge. I got bored so I headed over to the former spot and picked up a bucket of the small plume/flame agate I came across last time.
Here's one example -
Here's another piece - polished:
Most of my stuff I had to leave at my parents' home because of all the holiday gifts and luggage I was hauling around, so no photos of that stuff.
I did bring home three flats of the more unusual material that we collected this time. I don't know what to call it: tube agate maybe? Anyways, I saw it first when coming back to the parking area. One of the guys had his tailgate open to hold his finds. The best pieces look like petrified fireworks.
Here's some closer pics of his stash.
When I saw them, I went up to the ridge and found it consisted of fractured rock riddled with these seams of incomplete agate. By popping open the seams, vugs appeared with these formations inside.
Here's a couple of mine:
(No Flash and Flash)
Then, up a ways, I found a chunk of stone fallen from above with a large cavity. The whole top was loose so I popped it off and out came a miniature forest with double terminated crystals. Not the most colorful but a neat specimen:
And that's it for now.
I'm thinking about heading out on Monday for one final hunt before having to get back to school...
Thanks for looking,
Lowell
Well, my friend called another and another and another and we had 12 people and 6 vehicles heading out to the S. Cady's. We hit the same spot as Woody and I visited a month ago.
Here's another picture looking down into the valley where the I-40 cuts across.
This time we were heading to the next ridge in from the slope I have been finding the red moss agate. Here it is seam agate.
It was overcast so it was hard to judge the depth of the agate I was prying out of the ridge. I got bored so I headed over to the former spot and picked up a bucket of the small plume/flame agate I came across last time.
Here's one example -
Here's another piece - polished:
Most of my stuff I had to leave at my parents' home because of all the holiday gifts and luggage I was hauling around, so no photos of that stuff.
I did bring home three flats of the more unusual material that we collected this time. I don't know what to call it: tube agate maybe? Anyways, I saw it first when coming back to the parking area. One of the guys had his tailgate open to hold his finds. The best pieces look like petrified fireworks.
Here's some closer pics of his stash.
When I saw them, I went up to the ridge and found it consisted of fractured rock riddled with these seams of incomplete agate. By popping open the seams, vugs appeared with these formations inside.
Here's a couple of mine:
(No Flash and Flash)
Then, up a ways, I found a chunk of stone fallen from above with a large cavity. The whole top was loose so I popped it off and out came a miniature forest with double terminated crystals. Not the most colorful but a neat specimen:
And that's it for now.
I'm thinking about heading out on Monday for one final hunt before having to get back to school...
Thanks for looking,
Lowell