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Alabama
Did I miss your Alabama stuff? add it to the table. Need help finding a location?...reply
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Aug 2 2009, 12:13 AM EDT by
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Alabama ?
Does anyone know of any good places in Alabama to hunt for treasures.
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Jan 13 2008, 11:37 AM EST by
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Treasure hunting in North Alabama.
Hi you all, Just signed up on this site and I would like to know if there are any treasure hunters in the North Alabama area? I have started planing my spring and summer and need to know some hot places to go arround The Huntsville Alabama area. Looking for any type of hunting. Thanks.
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Jan 21 2009, 4:58 PM EST by
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agates
The club in Mobile Al is not far from you. Alabama has a get deal of sites. Alabama has some really great agate. Here is the Mobile site
http://www.mobilerockandgem.com/
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Jan 17 2009, 12:17 AM EST by
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Southeast Treasure Hnters Club
We are a family based metal detecting club in North East Alabama. around the Gadsden area. We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.
JOIN OUR FORUM AT ,
www.southeasttreasurehunters.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gadsden-AL/Southeast-Treasure-Hunters-Club/126001884370?v=app_2309869772e
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Sep 24 2009, 4:28 PM EDT by
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Location
I keep reading about Rattle Snake Hallow in Alabama. Does anyone know where it is located ? Would like to go there on 08/22/09.
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Aug 21 2009, 7:56 PM EDT by
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Traveling to Diamond Crate in Arkansas from Atlanta
Hello Everyone, we are RVing from Atlanta to Arkansas and need some help with stops on the way. I would like to know of any family treasure hunting across Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and Arkansas that we might be able to stop on the way. Thanks in advance... Lynn
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Mar 22 2008, 1:27 PM EDT by
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WHY HAVENT WE SEEN ANY NEW TREASURE HUNTS?
Jim, there are hundreds of sites across his nation. I hope people will start sharing their knowledge. I have posted a number of sites on the National Directory in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and South Dakota.
Bill
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Apr 19 2008, 9:56 AM EDT by
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Congratulations "Rockhound of the Year"
A member of our WIKI and one of my dearest friends has being selected as "Rockhound of the Year" by the Southeast Federation of Gem and Mineral Societies". Dewey Moss and his wife Bessie spent two days in Nashville. Tennessee payed for by the Federation to receive the reward. Dewey and I have spent many a wonderful day collecting along the beautiful Cumberland in Alabama and Tennessee. Bessie is a very talented wire wrapper(one of the best.) Andy you might have meet her at William Holland School of Lapidary Arts in Young Harris GA. Congradulations Dewey. Billie and I send our love and bless wishes to you and Bessie.
Bill
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Jan 3 2009, 11:47 AM EST by
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Really Big Shoe
"Nice photos, Bill! Where's the Peacock Lab from? Looks as good as the Madagascar stuff. And what's the rock at Billies left elbow?
Bob" It is Madagascar. We take trips to shows at Tucson, Franklin, and near here for material other than our finds. I have more rough from old sites and my personal sites than I will ever cut. At her elbow is three pieces of museum quality specimens, One is an agatized coral head from the Paint Rock, Alabama, The middle piece is a cluster of large grossular garnets and the third piece is a gemmy 1 1/2 " pyrope garnet in a schist matrix,
Bill
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Oct 19 2009, 12:11 AM EDT by
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How do you polish the gems?
Thank you Aubury the information is very helpful. We have a Gem and Rock Festival here in Alexander city,Alabama every year at Wind Creek State Park in June. I'm going to it this time and see what I can find out and possible get some gems cut there.
Thanks,Brenda
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Apr 19 2008, 9:38 AM EDT by
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Strange Agate - Rock & Gem magazine
If I can remember there is an almost black smokey quartz crystal, tourmaline crystals in the matrix, Alabama Brilliant Pet Wood with smokey quartz crystals, a ball of selenite crystals, a sphalerite crystal with chalcopyrite crystals, a 15 carat emerald (not thousands of dollars per carat), a cluster of apophylite crystals, a crystal of galena, and other specimens that I can not Remember. I love mineral specimens as much as I do agates. Not many people on the WIKI collect mineral specimens. If they would go to the Tuscon show, they would know great minerals are worth a fortune.
Bill
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Jul 29 2008, 11:42 PM EDT by
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Where in North Carolina will they let you dig at the mine itself?
The next gem hunt I go on I want to go to the mine myself and dig. I think it will be more exciting and more of a chance to find the good stuff and not something that has been sifted through are salted. If anybody knows of a place in N.C. are any other state close to Alabama,I sure would appreciate it.
Thanks,Brenda
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Apr 26 2008, 11:59 AM EDT by
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Road Trip...
Hi there,
A friend and I are going on a road trip from North Carolina to California via I-40. We will be passing through Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, north Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California. I have been charged with finding interesting stops along the way and was wondering if anyone knew of some good hunting spots on that route.
Thanks for any advice!
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Dec 28 2008, 7:30 AM EST by
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Environmentally Responsible Rockhounding
"What are you doing to reduce the environmental impact of your hobby (rockhounding or lapidary)? Please share a few examples." I have some specimens that belong in a museum where others can learn and appreciate them. I have donated to museums in the past and it is my intention to will the best specimens to my favorite museums. We have started a Best Museum page on our WIKI. Rockhounds are the largest source of contibutions to science and the public knowledge of rocks, minerals, and fossils. If the public lands were closed to collecting, it would be a loss not only to the general public out with the family just having fun but also to the scientific community. There are not enough geologist to cover the vast area of this nation. Specimens and fossils are fragil and weather away rather quickly when exposed to freezing and thawing. If some rockhound does not find these treasures they can be lost forever. The best fossil site I have ever discovered was a road cut in Tennessee. It was an amazing Sulerian site. The fossils were perfectly preserved in calcite. The matric was a soft shale that fell away from the fossils. I was finding free standing crinoids (completly out of the matrix!) As every rockhound knows, road cuts can be temporary. I called the University of North Alabama. I had taken the students on field trips before. We all showed up the next Saturday and as the department head said, " we are collecting the best Sulerian age fossils I had ever seen." My best find (a free standing crinoid with a foot wrapped around a brachipod) stands in the geological department in Florence, Alabama. There are some sites that should be suppervised by professionals. But the general public are being invited at some sites to help with major scientific finds. The Gray Fossil site in Tennessee is a good example. I have wrote too much for one post. But I feel strongly that most rockhounds are enviromentally sensitive. If we are not there will no place to collect. Most rockhounds obey the law. We as a group contribute so much to the education of others about the beauty of this creation.
Bill
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Jun 25 2008, 9:45 AM EDT by
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PHOTO FINISH
Andy I put a piece of Missouri Lace Agate with the Alabama Paint Rock. Have you gotten your package yet?
I have a new grandson. He was born two weeks ago. Mom is doing well and Billie is staying with them. My son and his wife live in Oklahoma City. I just got back yesterday from a quick trip out there to drop Billie off. Of course I stopped to prospect on the way back. (see Oklahoma Treasures) Found some goodies. (he,he) After a few years of Rockhounding you kind of have an instent of where to hunt. I quess that's why them call us rockhounds. We can smell rocks and like to lick em. Whwn you see a "Watch for Falling Rock" I'm the guy on the side of the road waiting.
Bill
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May 13 2008, 3:31 PM EDT by
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Patagonianstar
"Dear Bill :
Weis Museum agate Show was amazing! We met old and new friends there. And people in Menasha made ua feel at home , although we were thousands of miles away.
Of course , you may post our pictures! Please , let us know how to find the web-site later.
And ... may we take a look at your Cumberland Plateau Agates?
All our best!
Ricardo & Claudia Birnie" Yes I will show some of my agates. A have a wide variety of agates but I have one of the better collections of the Cumberland Agates. They include Kentucky Agate, Tennessee Paint Rock, and Alabama Paint Rock. The agate are sedimentary agate of the late Mississippi Era in the Pennington formation. The Cumberland is a wide Plateau that is hundreds of miles long. Its sides are steep slopes and cliffs that blocked early pioneers moving west until Daniel Boone discovered the Gap in the Cumberland. It is one of the most wild and beautiful regions in the eastern United States. The agate are found between the sandstone Bluffs and the limestone . The interface forms a bench where the agate can be found, I have written an article on the agates.
Bill
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Jul 29 2008, 11:26 PM EDT by
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Agate Formation
Silica also forms viscous gels. Silica Gels are a stable liquid when the PH is alkaline. Small bags of solid silica gels are often put in food to keep them crisp. Silica gels will absorb moisture and keep the food dry. Gels are a mixture of water and a solid.Opal is a type of gel and can loss its flash if the water is expelled with heat. That is one reason Virgin Valley opal is often not stable. As the opal dries it cracks and splinters. The stable opals are low in water content and the silica is tiny well ordered spheres. However, this is not a post about opal. There theory of Agate that I am researching is one proposed by Roger Pabian based on a Russian Scientists well known chemical reaction. (Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction). I will not go into the chemistry just to say that this reaction speeds up and then slows down in waves. In other words it pulses. Lowell and I have been able to take a silica gel and form the bands, the eyes, the moss, the plumes seen in agates as the gel turns from a liquid to a solid. The experiments were conducted by adding impurities to a pure gel then raising the PH by adding an acid to neutralize the alkaline. A wave front formed as seen in the above reaction. It would speed up and slow down At every pause a band would form with a color dependent on the impurity. This experiment was conducted at the SE Federation of Mineral Societies Convention in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Jul 28 2008, 10:41 AM EDT by
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arrowheads
I live on the Mississippi GulfCoast and was wondering if anyone can tell me if they know of any place to hunt for arrowheads or maybe in Alabama
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Jan 16 2009, 10:26 PM EST by
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Improve this site make a C&T Wiki suggestion
"Hi Washingtoncougar, I agree with you on everything and I really enjoy talking to everybody too.
Brenda" Here comes the Gold. Sites in Treasurefevers back yard. Tallapoosa County
1. Hog Mountian Gold Mine sec 10 T 24N R 22E largest occurence of gold in the mining district of Alabama - Fine grained gold
2. Tallspoosa Mine SW1/4 SW1/4 sec 26 T24N R22E Large flakes of gold in the host rock
Randolf County
1. Pinetucky Gold Mine sec 12 T18S R10 most well known specimens gold ever found in Alabama
2. Crooked Creek near Goldberg Mine Sec 10 T20S R10E fairly large nuggets
You have the Wal-Mart Section maps with Townships and Range. Use the Sec, T ,and R to pin point the locations.There are many mines within 35 miles of you home
Do not think gold prospecting is easy. It takes a lot of work to find a little gold. If it was laying around in big piles everyone would be out there mining. Do not go into abandoned mine shafts these are death traps. It is best to go with an experienced prospector who knows the area and how to pan for gold. Alabama at one time produced a great deal of gold. These old mines still have gold. Be careful. This is a bad time of the year to mine in Alabama. It is hot humid, the brush is thick, the ticks are out and so are the snakes. Best time is when the weather cools. Fall winter and spring is the best seasons to prospect your area. Especially winter.
I am not a gold prospector (not patience enough) so these locations are not ones I have worked but are in the Geological Survey of Alabama. There are better things to look for in my humble opinion than gold. I have never had gold fever (Agate yes) but not gold. Check it out be careful- go with someone and I don't promise that it will be easy.
Bill
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Jun 13 2008, 9:58 PM EDT by
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