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[RedGinger]

Cool pic Gunther! That must have been fun!

 

[athometoo]

plumbata , and rockbot i will pick the best and largest size for you (you perfer round or croissant shaped?) weve had a week of rain 12 inches or more . as soon as the river drops i will go back and pick up a 5 gallon bucket of it . there was a rock nearby 6 ft away that was 2ft long and 1 foot wide that resembled petrified wood but looked like the stuff stallagmites(caves) are made of . is that calcite? it had some pyrite chunks in it but was to heavy to hold with both hands already full of chunks . when i go back i will take pics of the area . sam as a kid we picked up chunks of real stuff in creede , cripple creek , and silverton colorado . i have a burlap sack full of those . 2 areas were old mines and 1 was the back side of a famous still working mine . everyone thinks to check the tailings but no thinks to check around the pylons where the cable cars used to bring it down the mountain . at one point me ,my father ,and my son had to take off our socks (they make good gold sacks) because rolling your shirt up off your belly was full .we rolled a 30lb chunk of quartz with gold flakes down the hilland put it beside a tree vowing to one day come back for it with my grandson . good times . miss my son at 4 yrs old he was so sweet . sam

 

[rockbot]

Hi Sam. I would be interested in a crescent piece. I would gladly trade with you something. What would interest you?

Aloha, Tony

 

[JGill]

Hey Sam cool thread, really enjoyed seeing and reading about all this stuff. I to dabble in rocks, minerals and fossils and I have actually been to the Clavert Cliffs where you can find the sharks teeth and whale bones and other stuff. It's hard to get to unless you come in from the water when I went I climbed down the cliffs maybe 100' but couldn't get back up because they are made up mostly of sand. I finally had to walk down to the nuclear power plant and go under the fence. Lucky me no one saw me. They have a neat park/museum there too.

 

[JGUIS]

ORIGINAL: GuntherHess

Hmmmmmmmmm

 

[ancientdigger69]

now THATS wrong but oh so funny. TACKLEBERRY!!!!!!!!!

 

[Just Dig it]

I used to volunteer in a nature par In sarasota Florida
They had dug the intercoastal waterway and disturbed the geological record spreading the sand to form the park
One day i had a 6 inch megalodon tooth in my pocket when i came home so happy to go surfing i forgot the tooth when i came home my mom had put the pants through the dryer..
it was so nice of a speciment like a light golden brown turned to dust after it hit the dryer = (
..

 

[bottle_head9]

It survived a million years of heat and pressure, but couldn`t survive your Maytag.What causes that to happen?I don`t know a thing about fossils.[8|]

 

[rockbot]

Its Surfing! It seems that surfing and shark teeth have a lot in common. lol, Rocky

 

[JGUIS]

ORIGINAL: JGUIS

ORIGINAL: GuntherHess

Hmmmmmmmmm

Sorry Gunth, didn't think it would piss you off.