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South Carolina
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North Carolina
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North Carolina Gold?
The Mason Mine is open year round. Franklin is west of Charlotte. There is a great page on North Carolina on the WIK that has links to several mines in the National Directory.. Also certain members are regulars to the mines in the area. I have been to Franklin on numerous occasions and it is one of my favorite spots on earth. The is one thread on NC with over a hundred posts. Hope you have a great time.
Bill
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Jan 8 2009, 9:10 PM EST by
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Amethyst
below. If a new thread on amethyst is started, it should also be added to the table. If you can help it, and it doesn't have a better starting
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Site Maintenance & Contents Indexing
Amethyst , Jade or Alabama ... Check out North Carolina! ). If you create a page that has relevance to such a subject, you should add a link
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Georgia
, but also on the Wiki: Discussion Threads on the Wiki for Georgia Other Resources on the Wiki for Georgia
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Tennessee
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Your Treasure Hunter Profile
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Looking for friends in North West Georgia
Welcome aboard Gina. While I'm not from your area, I'm always happy to help someone new to our hobby. We have a few members from the Carolinas, and areas around there. You might want to go to the blue box next to your picture, and click on National Directory, and then on some of the areas around you. I was stationed with the Navy at Kings Bay, in the south east of your state. I used to find lots of petrified shark teeth in that area, but really didn't have enough time for any serious rock hounding.
Don
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Aug 2 2009, 1:38 PM EDT by
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Rockhounding for DUMMIES and others
"The table with the big words are to be filled in buy the exsperts- the WIKI folks on the site. Fed the wife. Catfish, hushpuppies, pot of pinto beans, tater salad, cole slaw and big ole ice tea. She's happy now. I Will fill in first definition. We are just getting rolling with the Dummy Guide.
Bill" Dude you had to post that meal. Man I ain't ate like that since i was down at my dads in Charleston South Carolina. Now I gots me a hankering for greens and she crab soup and corn chowder and clam fritters with a side of cajun boiled crayfish,mmmmm slobber drool slurp.
Tom
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Jun 14 2008, 12:51 AM EDT by TallTomSr
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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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Franklin, N.C. Gem Mining
It was suggested on the C&T board that I add this here, so I am doing so-- hope nobody minds. :-)
http://pakasdollmaker.com/gemmining.html
I have put together a bit of a "fan page" (completely non-profit; I am not being paid for anything I am posting and I make no money from my site at all) for the mines in Franklin, North Carolina. Basically, a little collection of general information, mine reviews, and other suggestions for a trip to the area, plus some photos. As my disclaimer on the page says, some things are just my own opinions and I could be wrong on some things, so of course keep that in mind. Just wanted to create a reference to help those who are looking for information and to help encourage folks to visit.
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Jun 28 2008, 10:24 AM EDT by
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Gemstone book & Note on Chrome Diopside
I must apologize, I'm only partially computer literate (& I mean partial). Someone posted a comment on a thread (these things confuse me), but they wanted to know where to get a copy of my recent book on gemstones (http://danhauselauthor.pbwiki.com/Some+books), minerals & rocks in Wyoming. I couldn't find the comment again, so here are the website address to the book. Thank you for your interest.
Dan
Booksurge
http://www.booksurge.com/Gems-Minerals-Rocks-of-Wyoming-A/A/1439218560.htm
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Gems-Minerals-Rocks-Wyoming-Prospectors/dp/1439218560/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234540692&sr=1-1
And one other note. Last night I was watching a jewelry channel - they were selling silver rings with tanzanite and chrome diopside and I found it amazing. The story indicated the chrome diopside was recovered from Siberia. Siberia has several major diamond mines where they likely recover the diopside. The host of the show indicated that the miners had to go to Siberia and could only work 3 months out of the year and to get to the locality was a major challenge.
I love it! Things like this always fascinate me. One can find as high as quality (if not better) chrome diopside by driving down US 287 to Ft Collins, Colorado and turning off at the Cherokee Park road and sampling some of the best chrome diopsides in North America (I have some in my collection that are over an inch in diameter). Or just take a drive south of Green River Wyoming and pick them out of anthills. The ants already did the mining for the jewelers and those in the anthills are some of the best chromian diopsides in the world. Yet, no one, other than the ants, are taking advantage. Hey, this would make an excellent program for the travel channel!
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Feb 13 2009, 11:20 AM EST by
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Have you ever gone to one of the places featured on the show?
In july 2007 my family and I went to North Carolina for vacation. We met Jerry Call and his family. They are very nice people. They explained how the process worked and what to look for. They were very helpful!! We purchased several buckets and were very lucky!! I found a crystal quartz when faceted was 38.66cts, a smoky quartz when faceted was 28.52cts, several green tourmalines, rose quartz,a blue topaz, several aquamarines,citrines ,amethysts,moonstones and a few emeralds. Jerry faceted my stones and sent them to my home in two month's. They had a waiting list which was about eight weeks behind. We went back another day to purchase more bucket's and try our luck again and they remembered us. I was very suprised!! All the tourist that go there ,they remembered US!! Most places make you feel like your a number, but not them!! They make you feel special! We are going back again in 2008!! If your in North Carolina, look them up! You'll be glad you did!!
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Dec 30 2007, 8:47 PM EST by
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Hellection 2008
Thank you; that's the way I believe and live. My kids were big into sports - football, wresting, baseball-you name it. David wrestled at Oklahoma State. We always had a house full of teenagers from the teams along with their friends, To that generation race was unimportant. David talked to me on the phone this morning and he had no real understanding of where the nation had come from. Last night Obama carried the capital of the old Confederacy ( Virginia) along with the deep Dixie states of North Carolina, and Florida. The race was close in Georgia. Where I live has as great a diversity as any where in the country. We had an 80% turn out in the county and the majority voted their views and not race. Where McCain had 20 point leads were in the far west (Montana, Idaho. Utah, Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska , and Wyoming which had 2 out of three votes for McCain. I do not think with that Westerners voted for race but more for their conservative values. Western Arkansas is as much western as it is southern. There are mountains ,cattle ranches, elk hunts, Texas style Bar B Que and the capital of the Cherokee nation in Oklahoma is forty mile from here. It a great place to live as is the Great State of Washington.
Bill
PS I love rocks!!!!!!
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Nov 5 2008, 11:02 PM EST by
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Gemboree
Lets think through the South Dakota Gemboree for The Treasure Hunters Wiki . Let's settle on a date. . How about a date in June or over Labor Day. The CRAWFORD ROCK SWAP is over the Labor Day Weekend, September 4,5,6, & 7th, 2009 and is the Fairburn Agate get together. Field trips are planned. Here is a link for the Crawford Rock Swap and Custer State Park.
http://www.lakotafairburn.com/shows.htm
http://www.sdgfp.info/Parks/Regions/Custer/custersp.htm
At the State Park there are RV Hooks Ups, Camping, Cabins, Lodges (hotels) fishing, herds of wild life, and it is in the center of all the great Rockhounding. There are great National Parks within a short drive: Badlands National Park, Wind Cave National Park, Jewell Cave National Monument, Mount Rushmore, and there is two great museums: SD School of Mines, and Black Hills Institute. Specimens to collect in the area include Tee Pee Canyons Agate, Tourmaline, Beryl, Rose Quartz and numerous other minerals. At Two Hearts there is Fairburn Agate, Moss Agate, Barite Crystal Clusters, Bubble Gum Agate, Prairie Agate, Great Marine Fossils and colored Jaspers.
Bill
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Oct 31 2009, 10:58 AM EDT by
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TOM
PLEASE READ THE TOM SR. THREAD. THIS WAS WRITTEN BY HIS BROTHER AND HE IS NOT DOING WELL. PLEASE KEEP HIM IN YOUR PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS .
SHARON AND TIM
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Jun 22 2009, 6:05 PM EDT by
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Dry N Washington
If I can I want to get it done right after the six day ceremony and before the 11th of july cause I got a three day gathering for all those guys and no one to fill in. so If I have to I guess I suffer up and do it any way. I just found out today my dad from south Carolina is coming up on the 19th of july also.
No rest for the weary.
Tom
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Jun 18 2008, 11:58 PM EDT by
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Tips for Newbees places to collect
I thought a thread about places to collect not in the guide books would be an interesting discussion. Most of my collecting sites are not on the tourist maps and are a lot less crowded and not as picked over. After prospecting for a while a person learns some tricks of the trade (so to speak). The first tip is to learn a little about your local geology. I not saying become a geologist but it makes a lot of sense to know if the rocks in your area a sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic. Fossils will not be found in lava,
Road cuts give a great lesson in what kind of rock is at that location. In fact road cuts can be get collecting sites but do not park on the shoulder or on an Interstate. Some states have regulations about collecting a road cut but most will allow collecting if you are not excavating. The most valuable site I ever find in Tennessee was a fresh road cut. Cuts are often temporary. The one in Tennessee was temporary because the road cut was resodded . But a large number of Sulerian fossils came from that site some are in a museum. I called the University of Alabama when I found the site because it was to important to keep all to myself. I donated a free standing crinoid attached to a brocapod to the University Museum. Add more tips and I will too.
Bill
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