Post by spiritstone on Nov 9, 2014 22:03:46 GMT -5
Long trip, close to 2000km in 3 days, 20 hrs of driving, and 4 hrs of rockhounding, got it all done now burnt out.
Went to an area that produces a very nice blue lace agate with or without lace sometimes. The agate is call Buse Lake Blues and the familiar dig spot is pretty much stripped. A good friend of mine and I decided to go off into a different direction who I also went to visit after my family affairs were done attending to, it was much lower down the hill and we checked around to see if we could find a new hole that might produce some seam agate. The path in the pic leads to the area we were headed into. Buse lake is the other pic.
Started looking around for signs on the ground for float that might have not had been spotted a good indicator, and right off the hop pulled the nicest one of the day out of the ground with just a fingernail size piece of it shinning out of the dirt in our now new spots. Dug for maybe a hour or so hit a seam that was just to thin in size for any good keepers but hammered a couple smaller ones to bring back for the efforts involved to get there and time, better luck next spring when the temps are warmer. The day was 6 degrees above 0 and a cold wind was blowing with a dampness about it in the air, pretty muddy digging also to hit the basalt layers.
Moved on to another area a few km away and pulled a few black nodule agates from here with much better results for finding agates, most were a clear-greyish with waterlines.. Pics to come yet of the material. They are called blacks from this spot due to some of them with a dark grey to rootbeer color with white water lines and it looks like opal centers, that's what we were after and dug up a few nice large ones that I need to slice open.
Enjoy the drive below and I can get the other pics up tomorrow of this Black agate.
Went to an area that produces a very nice blue lace agate with or without lace sometimes. The agate is call Buse Lake Blues and the familiar dig spot is pretty much stripped. A good friend of mine and I decided to go off into a different direction who I also went to visit after my family affairs were done attending to, it was much lower down the hill and we checked around to see if we could find a new hole that might produce some seam agate. The path in the pic leads to the area we were headed into. Buse lake is the other pic.
Started looking around for signs on the ground for float that might have not had been spotted a good indicator, and right off the hop pulled the nicest one of the day out of the ground with just a fingernail size piece of it shinning out of the dirt in our now new spots. Dug for maybe a hour or so hit a seam that was just to thin in size for any good keepers but hammered a couple smaller ones to bring back for the efforts involved to get there and time, better luck next spring when the temps are warmer. The day was 6 degrees above 0 and a cold wind was blowing with a dampness about it in the air, pretty muddy digging also to hit the basalt layers.
Moved on to another area a few km away and pulled a few black nodule agates from here with much better results for finding agates, most were a clear-greyish with waterlines.. Pics to come yet of the material. They are called blacks from this spot due to some of them with a dark grey to rootbeer color with white water lines and it looks like opal centers, that's what we were after and dug up a few nice large ones that I need to slice open.
Enjoy the drive below and I can get the other pics up tomorrow of this Black agate.