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Ohio
Does anyone know of anything good to hunt for in or near Ohio? We like all kinds of hunting. Getting into to rockhounding and metal detecting as a family adventure. Thankyou corkyelizabeth
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Jan 25 2008, 12:45 AM EST by
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Ohio
I am in Columbus Ohio playing with twin grand daugthers, Billie and I stopped at Flint Ridge and meet with the well known napper, Roy Miller. (see Ohio - National Directory) Did we everget into great cutting material. Top grade , multi colored, banded flint. I will post some pictures, we plan on hitting the flourite mines in Illinios and Kentucky or the agates beds. Having a great time chasing grand girls.
Bill & Billie
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Oct 26 2008, 9:24 AM EDT by
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What about Ohio?
I love treasure but getting around is rather hard does anybody know where treasure might be in Ohio.
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Jan 23 2008, 5:52 PM EST by
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Mushroom Hunting
Hey everybody i live in ohio and always here about home many mushrooms everybody is finding in Michigan can anybody tell me is there any public land in Michigan where anybody can hunt them at that is close to Ohio i would to take my 3 boys they love finding them.Thanks All
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Mar 27 2008, 9:15 PM EDT by
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Colorado Bound
The book for Colorado says in the Gunnison Gold belt there are blue beryl, topaz and black turmaline. There is also Quartz. Between Ohio and Parlin near Gunnison. Opalman
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Mar 21 2008, 3:51 PM EDT by
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Treasure hunting vacation...
My husband and I are planning on taking a vacation the 1st week of Sept. and would like some ideas on cool places in Ohio or in the surrounding states to go treasure hunting. All help would be appreciated!
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Tresure hunting in Kentucky
"Hello i live in louisville kentucky, and would like to know if any one might know of some good places to go treasure hunting here.. are if anyone has a group in Kentucky i might join.." Right across the Ohio River from Louisville, is the Falls of Ohio State Park. I have been there several times, it is one of the finest fossil sites in the nation. Although a person can not collect on state park property there is ample collecting sites just a few miles from you in Indiana. (see Indiana National Directory). Kentucky is famous for Kentucky Agate. Kentucky Agate is the State Rock by act of the State Legislature on July 14, 2000, It is a sedimentary agate found in the Borden Formation of Early Mississippian Age. The agate is beautifully colored and contains bands, fortifications,and sometime plumes or moss formations. It can be found in the creeks and river drainage where it has been weathered out of the host rock in Estill, Jackson, Powell, Madison, and Rockcastle Counties in Kentucky.
A club in the area is:
Louisville, Kentucky
Kyana Geological Society of Louisville, Kentucky
Meets at 7:30pm the 3rd Tuesday of each month
PNC Bank branch at the corner of US 42 & Lime Kiln Lane.
Contact (502) 957-5781
Bill
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Nov 15 2008, 7:33 PM EST by
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"How do you know they were mislabeled? Was the seller knowledgeable? Did the mislabeled location affect the price? I would let him know.
Bill" Location generally does affects the price. A Fairburn agate has a much higher price than a common Brazilian agate. Fluorite from Illinois brings a much higher price than Fluorite from China. An Arkansas saw diamond brings far more than an African diamond for the same quality and size. By the way an Arkansas diamond is generally worth more if left uncut. Since I have family up your way we will need to get together to hunt treasures in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.
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Nov 3 2008, 9:45 AM EST by
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texas
I live in Ohio but did some military time around Ft.Worth... i brought home some Ammonite fossils from that area that are big as a small truck tire.. that area is laoded with them.. just look for them digging up any limestone area, and happy hunting :)
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Jan 8 2008, 12:15 PM EST by
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Help identify my stuff?
Hi, I just added some photos to my profile page. The first is of some rocks I found in the woods. They are translucent and seem to be interesting. I'm wondering if they may be worn agates as I live in an area famous for agates. Unfortunately I don't know what local agates look like. I've searched on line but can't find raw agate pictures from this area. (Washington State, south Puget Sound). I live just a block from the water and would like to go beach combing for agates once I have an idea what to look for. Can anyone help with that?
A couple other photos in my profile are of the front and back of a "rock" I bought at a junk auction in Ohio years ago. The auctioneer sold it as a rock, laughing the whole time but I thought it might be a concretion so I bought it and another one for 25 cents. I did break the other one and didn't find anything interesting. This one looked more promising though and I haven't wanted to ruin it so saved it all these years. Can you tell me if it looks like a concretion to you? Any suggestions on opening it? There are very obvious layers to it.
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Mar 13 2008, 6:40 PM EDT by
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Good Hunting Places Around Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc?
"I just took my first rock collecting trip, went to Indiana, found a guide and brought home cave onyx, calcite crystals, geodes and iron pyrite. It was a blast and I'm going to do it again. Pam" Pam -
Where did you go in Indiana to find geodes, and have you cracked any open yet (and if so, what did you find)? Can you post some pics? My wife loves geodes, and we're right next door to Indiana in Ohio.
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Apr 22 2008, 9:20 AM EDT by
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Treasure hunts to buy online.
I've enjoyed reading the posts here and have looked at some of the "order online" bucktets of dirt, gem stones etc. I did my own search and found this site which seems to be a really great deal especially as they include shipping.
http://www.sprucepinegemmine.com/ordering.htm#
Another idea I wanted to share. About 10 years ago I found "clean your own" fossils at a shop in Columbus Ohio. I bought several from this shop over a couple of years time. I cleaned them then gave them as gifts or sold them when I moved to Washington state. I tried to find more online over the last year with no luck. Then a couple of days ago I was going through storage boxes and found one that I hadn't completed. Using the info from the box I was able to find them online. There's not much chance of finding anything rare as those can't be sold but I've had a wonderful time cleaning my own and they tend to be really nice specimens. And I've found many things in the plates other than fish. Coprolites are prolific. ;-)
http://www.ulrichsfossilgallery.com/products/prepkits.html
Just wanted to share as I've really enjoyed the info I've found here and I'm looking forward to more entries about things to find in Washington.
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Mar 13 2008, 5:04 PM EDT by
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Mid West
"It is amazing that with all of the rockin' you have around there that there is a thread or 2 going nuts.
Btw, how are the kidney agates doing?? Anything large enough to facet?? lol However, this is something I hope you never find again. Having given birth to my fair share of the KA's I don't wish it upon anyone. lol But they sure facet up good. ;-o
You still working a lot?
Paul " Working a bunch. I have done several jobs for Wal-Mart and other clients, a job in Wichita, a couple in Connecticut, non up Washington way, I am headed to Ohio for a job next week. The weather is great and I need to hit the rock trail. I am smelling the scent in the air. Would love to have time to hit the great Ohio fossil beds. No more Kidney Agates THANK GOD. A small stone feels like passing a live porcupine. Billie and I have found a nice site not far from the house that has fossil in agate that polishes beautifully. It is on the War Eagle river and has a variety of jasper and pudding stone. What have you been up to as far as prospecting is concerned?
Bill
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Jul 29 2009, 8:15 PM EDT by
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Where's your favorite treasure hunting vacation spot?
Billie and I went on a trip a couple of weeks ago to Flint Ridge Ohio. We went to one well known fee site but the best material we found was on a power line right of way. I could tell the flint has not been dug by anyone in recent time. That was more fun than shelling out $5 to root through a pile of picked over flint. There are a lot better places in North Carolina than the tourist mines where you pay so much to wash a salted bucket with sapphire from Sri Lanka or Thailand.
Bill
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Nov 7 2008, 11:26 PM EST by
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Devastating Storm
"Sobering pics, Bill. I hope and pray you weather this one with no more damage than is already done.
Dan" It is moving from eastern Oklahoma, northern Arkansas, southern Missouri into the Ohio River Vally. Since we are up in the mountains we really got slammed. My neighborhood was beautiful in the fall. The vast majority of homes have no power, so we have opened our home to those without heat.
Bill
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Jan 28 2009, 10:55 AM EST by
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Biggs/ Rufus Oregon
"The unknown I saw looked like a colorful high grade chert or as nappers would say Flint. Notice the conchoidal fracture that looks like a dish. Also note the sharp breaks. I have polished some Abates Flint from the Canadian River breaks in the Texas panhandle. It takes and extremely high polish. Jasper is a catch all term for any opaque cryptocrystalline variety of quartz . So if you prefer you could call it jasper. In the mineral shows the tern jasper is not allowed if the specimen is to be judged for prizes.
Bill" If you explore the site there might be signs of early Native American mining the flint and maybe some artifacts. There will be a lot of chips if it was worked. See Ohio National Directory
Bill
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Jul 30 2008, 2:28 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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3/4 Billion Dollar Emerald
"Hmmm, I just looked at the article and the photo - looks like it could be a bit of a scam if the photo is valid. The photo attached to the article shows several small beryl crystals (I'm not even convinced they are emeralds based on color and clarity, but its difficult to tell in a photo) in a large piece of rock matrix. I suspect that they included all of that waste rock in their weight and it looks to me like they might have only 10 to 15% beryl. I don't see how that specimen could even worth a few $thousand unless they news media is showing the wrong specimen. But that's the press for you. They are about as trustworthy as politicians." I have seen the same thing reported about North Carolina rubies, and emeralds, There are some nice gems occasionally found in the tourist sites. But the press will announce a huge find at a tourist attraction and the picture shows a piece of low quality beryl or corundum. If you visit some of the tourist gem sites some of them do the same thing. They will show a guy in shorts, Hawaiian shirt and a straw hat grinning real big and holding a 1000 carat piece of red corundum worth maybe $20 as a specimen. The caption will read Jim Smith of Columbus, Ohio finds Zillion dollar ruby. There are legitimate mines and it is true James Hill has found some nice emerald but zillion dollar rubies in NC are rarer than hen's teeth. One has to ask a simple question. If the owner could find zillion dollar rubies why is he living in a trailer parked on the property and charging tourist $5 a bucket? He has one 1967 Chevy Truck on blocks and his wife drives a 92 Yugo.
Bill.
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Mar 4 2009, 4:40 PM EST by
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Looking for a rock hunting partner
I also am looking for a rock hunting partner. I have been planning a trip to Dugway, Utah over the last couple of days. I am from Michigan and am following the feeling in my gut to find crystals and gems. I am particularly facinated with the geodes that can be found in Dugway.. I am also learning there are some other great places near by too. I am planning this trip alone, and am slightly worried about trekking alone out there. If you are interested in meeting up for a day or two to check things out, that would be fantastic. I was very happy to stubble on your post. I was thinking about leaving in about a week or less. I will be stopping in Put in Bay, Ohio to look at the Crystal Cave.
Hope this works out!
Peace and love,
Julie
Sunnie Jai
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Jul 29 2009, 1:00 AM EDT by
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Gemboree
Just got back from Ohio. Cold and snowing. No rockhounding just engineering. Bummer, Good food, nice people - the waitresses are a hoot in Youngstown/ , Chatty and humorous. Last week in Maine I was in the heart of the tourmaline district. I found smokey quartz, blue quartz, citrine, amethyst on the beach at Wells Maine.
Bill,
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Nov 6 2009, 7:04 PM EST by
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