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This Fairburn is from the Oglala National Grass Lands in NW Nebr. It is very common for the Fairburns from that area to have that "eye" in them. The 2nd pic is of the back which is not polished. I choose to only polish one side for my collection
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Agates of the World
/Geophys/qagate.html Nebraska The state gemstone is the Nebraska Blue Agate pictured on the right. Also Nebraska is renowned
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Origin of Agates
MEXICO Continental Claystone Agates The agates of the Chadron formation in Sioux County Nebraska form in claystones
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Treasure Hunters Guide
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Treasure Hunting
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of South Dakota, Wyoming & NW Nebraska Click EasyEdit to add what you know. If you create another page featuring Wyoming
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Newbie Tips & Tricks
National Grasslands. It is open to the public. NW Nebraska has the Ogallala Grasslands. You are allowed so many pounds of rocks per each hunting trip
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Agates. (See Nebraska , Wyoming and South Dakota ) and Herkimer Diamonds for New York (though I choose not to make another table as NY had so
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in the heat of the summer. Other helpful resources : (newspapers, websites, etc) The University of Nebraska web site. Roger
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Agates of South Dakota, Wyoming & NW Nebraska Click EasyEdit to add what you know. If you create another page featuring South
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From a gravel pit in Northern Nebraska
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Side view of a nice piece 9"x3" old fine in Northern Nebraska. (gravel pit)
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Quartz varieties
The University of Nebraska has done a great deal of research on these varieties of quartz especially banded agates. Flint and chert also from in nodules in sedimentary deposits mainly limestone. Some researchers have proposed that the Flint and chert are formed in a acid solution instead of an alkaline solution that agate forms. Flint is a chert that is very fine grained and flakes off easily into conchoidal pieces. Jasper is a non scientific term for any opaque cryptocrystalline quartz that can be used for ornamental purposes.
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Family fun
You didn't say which way you're coming from. With a whole month to spend, you might want to come over to the grasslands in N.W. Nebraska
and S.W. South Dakota to try your hand at finding Fairburn Agates. Some of the most beautiful agates in the world. They aren't easy to find, but
well worth the hunt. You'll also find prairie agates, jasper, petrified wood and possibly some dinosaur bone and other fossils.
Don
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Uncut agate?
I have hunted agates for decades - all over the country. Most agates have a weathered exterior that hides the beauty. Some have a rind of host rock. I have hunted along the Cumberland collecting the sedimentary agates. Kentucky agate generally does not look like agate (full of colors and patterns) on the exterior. Generally it looks like a ball or egg shaped cauliflower. There is no way to be 100% sure you have a great agate or a so so one. That is part of the fun. It is a little like a present - sometimes it is more than you expected . Sometimes you are disappointed. Thundereggs , Texas plume , Paint Rock, Tennessee Agate, Kentucky Agate, Nebraska Blue Agate, Brazilian agate are all hidden by the exterior.
I know of no sure way of knowing what the interior will look they. Jake sent me some Washington Thundereggs from Naches Creek. They looked like Tan footballs (nothing special) . He also sent bright red Lucas Creek (no question about the rocks being agate). But when I cut the eggs open, they were far more interesting than I had anticipated.. The t-eggs were bright blue with horizontal bands (typical of T-eggs). Experience will help you to discriminate. There will come a time when you will easily tell a Kentucky agate from a common rock. That will not take long. But even after years there will be surprises. One of my most beautiful Cumberland agates looked like hundreds of junk agate around it. Toms idea of carrying a rechargeable dermil to remove a little rind was a good ideal. Some hounds whack a little off with a hammer to see if it worth hauling out, I do not recommend this. Lot's of great agates have been distroyed this way. I get up your way from time to time. Maybe we could hunt together?
Bill
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Slab Saw Love
"More reason to move to Oregon ;)" Nah, just want to move to western S.D., where the Fairburns and all kinds of cool stuff is found. I'd also be near N.W. Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. All great hounding territory. I brought over a ton of west coast material with me when I moved up here.
Don
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Patagonianstar
You have a spectacular collection of agate from Argentina/ The question I have is: Do you sell slabs or nodules? Thank you for sharing your finds. Some of those specimens should be posted on the University of Nebraska web page.
Bill Reynolds
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