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Kentucky
detailed localities, but also on the Wiki: Discussion Threads on the Wiki for Kentucky Other Resources on the Wiki
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Illinois
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Sep 9 2009, 7:17 PM EDT by
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Uncut agate?
"I am just curious if anyone has a link to pictures of rough uncut geodes that tunred out to be agate.. I am trying to familarize myself better with what I need to be looking for when searching for Agate (in KY dont find many that show visable agate so cant tell from that).. I am trying to keep from picking up to much junk rock that isnt agate or anything at all... (pretty back straining and I cant seem to get a clear image in my mind of what to look for) any help would be greatly appreciated.. thanks" I got to say if you ever figure out the answer to your question you will be able to retire early. It might be helpful to look over different photos of agates in the rough or what would be a natural uncut agate. There are several posts on here and threads that may help you by going over. As for fairburn agates yes there is some ways to familarize ones self to help in looking for those gems. Some of the times in looking for agates you don't see the full blown pattern stairing up at ya. Here in Western South Dakota we are faced with prairie agates or picture rocks, (water agates) they look good and have the colors but dont have the sharp fortifications of the famous fairburn agate. A true Fairburn is pretty much matrix free (host formation) it is pretty much a solid agate meaning the pattern pretty much occurs around the entire rock. Getting back to your question as for Fairburns look for the waxy surface ones refered to as "frogs skin" its usually a rusty brown colors or shades of grays. In looking for the ones that everyones missed the rock needs to either be damp or turned over. If you have ever seen our agate beds you will understand what I am talking about. Millions of agates on every hill side, that have been looked over for 75 years. The next best way and the easyest is to either wet the rocks or go after or during a rain and look for agate patterns, this requires a good eye or knee pads to get right down there and look. It may strain the back but it will get used to it. Good Luck DB
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Mar 31 2009, 12:56 AM EDT by
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Patagonianstar
Ricardo & Claudia, as I mentioned on another thread those are some beautiful agates and pictures. Just amazing agates! Thanks for sharing. I do hope that someday you will make an exposition or show in the Northwest that I can attend. I would love to see those agates in person and meet you 2. I am afraid our local agates are rather bland compared to those. :-) But to us they are still very special. lol Very nice finds. Paul
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Jul 29 2008, 10:49 PM EDT by
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Anywhere in Illinois
"Thanks. Yes Keokuk is a good place and I have been to the Mazon but didn't have much luck. Will try again though. If you think of any other or from here to Florida let me know. I did go to southern Ill last spring but it was after they had the 100 mile an hour winds and there was so much destruction you could not get most places." Cross the Ohio at Cave in Rock Illinois and you will discover the world's finest fluorite museum is in Marion Kentucky. The Ben Clements Museum (google it up) or visit our Great Museums page. They have scheduled field trips. I have found really nice mineral specimens. If you take I 40 through Tennessee stop at the Gray Fossil Museum. Fantastic museum and you can schedule a dig with paleontologist at the site. They recently found a Red Panda fossil. Stay on I40 you will enter Western North Carolina. Gemstone Mecca. Hiddenite NC for emeralds and Franklin for rubies and sapphires. Catch I 95 South to Georgia and stop at Graves Mountain; the most important mineral site in the East. Contact the Georgia Gem and Mineral Society for access. Schedule this stop in advance. Just visit the National Directory on the drop down menu for more detail and many more stops if you take a different route.
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Sep 27 2009, 7:44 PM EDT by
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Site Maintenance
Ok I'm a liar. I moved the pages. There was just too many competing for a prominent place, and it just looked cluttered. Fortunately DancingFlowers had created two great pages that could serve as a means for organizing them all. I completely dumped the "planning your vacation" idea as that is what this entire wiki is essentially about anyway. The "National Directory" and the "Treasure Hunting" pages are "educational guides" but are too important to place under another page, so they are out where they can be seen. The ND still needs a better header page format, but after that this organizational scheme should stand the test of time. Follow this link to see where everything is at a glance
http://cash-and-treasures-wiki.travelchannel.com/sitemap
There will still be a little tweaking, but not much.
I'm mostly done with the threads (by tonight) and if you look under the "treasure hunting" section you will see I have been adding Treasure pages to be filled out. Moving forward I will be finishing my original project of indexing the ND, Treasures lapidary, etc pages. And then I'm really done:-) Then I'm going to fix all of my own messed-up pages and profile and start posting all my Junkite again (but not in the photo gallery unless it's really cool ;-)
Thanks for putting up with all the changes. BTW, we're back in the top 100.
~Zeke
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A little Game - Just for fun.
KENTUCKY FRIED - STONE GROUND
EYES OF SILVER - THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
HEART OF GOLD - NEIL DIAMOND
ROCK AND ROLL DREAMS - WILD LIFE
ROCKIN' DOWN THE HIGHWAY - THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
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Feb 22 2009, 5:54 PM EST by
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Fossils
Hi Nan,
Someone back sometime told us if you put your rock in the freezer let it freeze and take it out and find the seams then whack it it splits better. I don't know if this works as we had already worked our and haven't had the chance to get back to get more fossils. Tim and I are up for a fossil thread as we love them. Good luck with the fossils .
Sharon
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Sep 13 2009, 4:03 PM EDT by
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Rock Cart
"Oh, let's see. There's Brandywine tomatoes, Usually another variety of heirloom tomatoes, 2 or 3 varieties of hot peppers, an old variety of
zucchini, Hubbard squash, Golden Bantam corn, old varieties of pole beans, an old type of kohlrabi, A very old (and hot ) type of radish and
anything else that I decide to grow. I can them and freeze them and dehydrate them. Whatever it takes to make them last until the next
growing season. My wife makes a killer Zucchini bread which can be frozen. Also pumpkin bread.
Don" Billie will have to get the Zucchini bread recipe so that there will be one more way to eat them. They are kind of like one of those old 1950s monster movie They keep growing and growing. I like the old Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans. I plant Poblano peppers, pimento peppers. Not a big fan of Bell peppers unless they have turned from green to red. My wife is a Cajun and we have to have Okra for Gumbo. There is old variety called stag horn. In the summer it has to be picked every day or it is too big. There is an Arkansas tomato called the Brady Pink. Brady County holds an annual tomato festival and claims to be the Tomato Capital but I would guess that there are counties in California that would challenge that claim.
Bill
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