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washingtoncougar	60. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 6:15 PM EDT I have a suggestion to everyone on the site, and that would be if you know of an area that is handicapped excisable that includes wheel chair and motoscotter let us know. There are a few of us that have a hard time getting around as is without having to walk a mile or two to get to a site. It would also open up the opportunity for others who thought they could not share in our hobby due to their handicap. I agree with all the suggestions xspecialy about the albums Paul, Bill and Tom out of everyone you three are on here the most. You watch all the threads (don't know how you do it I can barelly keep up with the 14 that I recieve e-mails on now) and welcome everyone that makes a post. You are all filled with an extrodinary amount of knowledge ( not saying others aren't) that has helped more then a few of us out in way or another. Keep it up and Thank You. Thank you to the C&T crew for the site and the show Dave Post reply Do you find this valuable?
treasurefever	61. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 6:16 PM EDT Hi Paul,I'm ROTFLMAO! Now I'm trying to find out if they bring you good luck are not.I just weighed the Agate on 2 different food scales and it weighs 5oz. It looks like it made scratches,I see it but I dont feel it. I wish there was another way to tell,until then it's a Agate.lol Thanks,Brenda Post reply Do you find this valuable?
treasurefever	62. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 6:36 PM EDT Hi Washingtoncougar, I agree with you on everything and I really enjoy talking to everybody too. Brenda Post reply Do you find this valuable?
pvjjh	63. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 7:32 PM EDT "I read the obituary this morning, I was not in it so I knew it was going to be a good day. The Doc said they wil be mining for a kidney stone. They are going to BLAST it. I was hoping they would leave it whole so I could add it to my collection. It's not an agate. Will be posting PICS." At last, something that isn't an agate. Or do we really know. I mean Bill and all the years of rockhounding experience could produce, just by shear chance, the first kidney agate! Oh no... Now Tom will want one, then Andy and so on and so forth. lol Funny you read the obit's, the first thing Val does when she gets home is read the obit's looking to see if I AM IN THERE!!! ;-o Hope all goes well at the Doc. Been there done that, don't ever want to do that again! Paul Post reply Do you find this valuable?
pvjjh	64. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 7:48 PM EDT "Hi Paul,I'm ROTFLMAO! Now I'm trying to find out if they bring you good luck are not.I just weighed the Agate on 2 different food scales and it weighs 5oz. It looks like it made scratches,I see it but I dont feel it. I wish there was another way to tell,until then it's a Agate.lol Thanks,Brenda" Hi Brenda. You up off the floor yet??? ;-) hehe I just keep looking at the picture and I see agate. Ok another way to tell if it is amber is put some rubbing alcohol or better yet acetone on it. It will actually dissolve a bit and get sticky. Agate won't, it may clean the agate, but it won't dissolve. The knife test results are interesting. However, if it were Amber, the scratch would be really obivous. And an amber that size may only weight a couple of ounces. Does it feel heavier or lighter then other rocks the same size? But I still see agate. Paul Post reply Do you find this valuable?
pvjjh	65. RE: Agate are Amber? Jun 13 2008, 7:59 PM EDT "Alright You AGATE "Challenged" People Don't let your jealousy over our abundant hunting grounds get the best of you..lol. I know we post a lot of agate pics and have several very friendly discussions on them but there are so very any types and locations across this great nation it is hard not to become addicted to them. I also hunt for many other types of treasures in my area. Such as Jasper and quartz crystals and fossils and geodes, and more. I realize that another started the agate bashing but Paul took full advantage to get his licks in because he has NO agates where he lives. Sticks and stones can break me bones but mean agate words can't hurt me ,ha, ha, ha,,,lol Tom " Whatever....geeezz..... agates, gagites. geez man just cause I am challenged you do't gots to rub it in.... There just aint no agates around here. There were but they all got wash down down stream!!! LOL Still laughing at the AGATE "challenged" People thingy!! I am and I am proud to be one! hehe Paul ps Trust me dude, if'n I was to throw something at you, it most certainly not be an agate. I only have a few and would hate to loose one. But It might be a choice piece of Leaverite maybe even with your name on it! ;-o nearly on the floor grabbing my sides now! I bet I got more Leaverite than you do!!! LMAO!! Post reply Do you find this valuable?
pvjjh	66. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 8:03 PM EDT "I am heading to the Sleeping Bear Dunes Nat'l Park area of MI on Monday. I can't wait! I won't be hunting agates. . . BUT, I am like a crow; I pick up whatever is shiney. LOL Pam" Hey pam good luck getting them nonagate rocks! ;-) Have fun and hope the weather holds for you. Paul Post reply Do you find this valuable?
aubreyreynolds9@gmai	67. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 8:09 PM EDT I have two kidney stones so I can send one to Tom. Bill Post reply Do you find this valuable?
pvjjh	68. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 8:51 PM EDT "I have two kidney stones so I can send one to Tom. Bill" LMAO!!! they are kidney agates. eww wait Bill, I am not laughing about you having stones. That is a very painful serious condition. I only had one and I oh so enjoyably passed it would out much help other than lots of pain pills. However, sending one of your kidney agates to Tom is funny! :-) Paul Post reply Do you find this valuable?
aubreyreynolds9@gmai	69. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 9:20 PM EDT It sure is funny when it stops hurting. Pam I wish we could go with you. Great place to find the real good stuff. Bill Post reply Do you find this valuable?
aubreyreynolds9@gmai	70. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 9:58 PM EDT "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 Post reply 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
treasurefever	71. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 13 2008, 11:47 PM EDT Thank you Bill,I'll take your advise on everything. I can't stand the sun are the heat anymore anyway. It just kills me.lol Brenda Post reply Do you find this valuable?
TallTomSr	72. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 14 2008, 12:43 AM EDT "I have two kidney stones so I can send one to Tom. Bill" Hey Bill I'll take one. I'll mount it on a plaque and title it home grown AGATE. Or maybe make a earing out of it. Or I might have Paul facet it for me,,lol tom Post reply Do you find this valuable?
pvjjh	73. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 14 2008, 12:53 AM EDT "Hey Bill I'll take one. I'll mount it on a plaque and title it home grown AGATE. Or maybe make a earing out of it. Or I might have Paul facet it for me,,lol tom" WOW!!! If he has a stone big enough to facet I will facet it!!! If that is the case No Humor! That poor man is lucky to be upright! Don't make him laugh. But that would be a challange to facet for sure Of course it has to be a clear stone, no inclusions and must finish cut to at least 23.389475 cts. Yikes the Smithsonian may want that stone! But all just for you Tom! lol Paul Post reply Do you find this valuable?
TallTomSr	74. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 14 2008, 1:32 AM EDT If Bill has a stone big enough to facet I would be amazed that he could sit and type all that he has today. Must be really good pain pills,,,lol. Imagine the news articles about the first faceted kidney stone in history, you would be right up there with Jerry Call,,,lol Tom Post reply Do you find this valuable?
pvjjh	75. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 14 2008, 1:56 AM EDT "If Bill has a stone big enough to facet I would be amazed that he could sit and type all that he has today. Must be really good pain pills,,,lol. Imagine the news articles about the first faceted kidney stone in history, you would be right up there with Jerry Call,,,lol Tom" WHoA, my 2 seconds of fame! That would make a bit of a reputation. I don't know about being comapared with Jerry Call, but just being mentioned in the same paragraph would be good! lol Man I just cringe thinling about it. People just don't know what it is like until they experience one. ewwwwww... Yucky!! Paul Post reply Do you find this valuable?
TallTomSr	76. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 14 2008, 2:08 AM EDT I have known a few people who had them. They went through some real pain. I have not had the experience of one myself and hope to not ever have it. My father in law had seven to pass one time and I think if it would have been me I would have just told them to cut out the darn kidney. I am a real pansy when it comes to pain. Unless of course I get rocks out of the ordeal so maybe since they were kidney STONES I would have gone thought it. Tom Post reply Do you find this valuable?
washatonian	77. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 14 2008, 8:53 AM EDT All this chatter about kidney stones making me want to make some Portuguese Soup. Which of course is made with Kidney Stones (aka > beans.) Hmmm good stuff. Post reply Do you find this valuable?
TallTomSr	78. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 14 2008, 9:44 AM EDT here we are joking at poor Bill's misery. That ain't very nice of us,,,,,but it is funny,,lol Tom Post reply Do you find this valuable?
pvjjh	79. RE: On A Lighter side Jun 14 2008, 10:28 AM EDT "here we are joking at poor Bill's misery. That ain't very nice of us,,,,,but it is funny,,lol Tom" Faceting a kidney agate would be an honor and is funny Having Kidney agates, Bill I feel for you! You take care and easy. 7 at one time. OMG! I probably wouldn't have survived that ordeal. 1 was bad enough. Post reply Do you find this valuable?

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