Any ''Rockhounds'' Out There ?

45alive · Jul 19, 2015

Anyone else here have ''Rocks'' in their head ? :s0107:

Show us any kind of Rocks you may have, and if you don't know what they are I might know ! :s0083:

Any Rock'll Do, I sound like a Rooster. Precious, Semi-Precious or even ''Leaverites'' - Leave Em right there cause they ain't worth nothin ! :s0077:

Rock On !

mrblond · Jul 19, 2015

my granddad was. he had a massive pile of thunder eggs that were uncut he finally sold as he just could not manage it anymore.

IronMonster · Jul 19, 2015

Yeah same here, my grandparents where. They spent days and days dragging home Bruno Jasper, petrified wood, geodes and anything else they could pull out of the hills. They made several tables that where polished rocks cast in acrylic that where really cool.

Mikej · Jul 19, 2015

Ooo, working on dinner know....I'll get you something. Dad was a rockhound and we used to go into the desert in Utah on the Honda 90s and haul out some good sized petrified rock. Got some mica, thunder eggs, trilobites, some stuff I have no idea what it is. I think I've got a small pile of petrified poop.?

Mike

Certaindeaf · Jul 19, 2015

Death Valley is a great place for gandering at geology.
Some of those rocks move!
Don't go in the summer though.

lol

Just Jim · Jul 19, 2015

I like rocks, spent a lifetime building roads all over the state and hunted rocks in my spare time.....

jbett98 · Jul 19, 2015

Found a meteorite once.
I gave it away to a friend who used it to make a really cool Bowie knife.
Man that thing could keep an edge.

Jamie6.5 · Jul 20, 2015

I had an aunt and uncle that were rock hounds, and they said if you want to become one, buy a bag of marbles first.
Then, every time you find a rock you want to keep, pick it up and leave a marble in its place.

And when you've lost your marbles, you'll know you're a rock hound!

I dunno, but that's what they told me!

45alive · Jul 20, 2015

Ya, your Aunt and Uncle were right. :s0164:

I lost my Marbles and I am a Rockhound. :s0077:

45alive · Jul 20, 2015

You can see here that I have Rocks all over my House. These are just a few !

45alive · Jul 20, 2015

My Wifey is the Interior Decorator, we are both Rocknuts.

deadeye · Jul 20, 2015

Some fools gold and tiger eye pieces.

Sgt Nambu · Jul 20, 2015

jbett98 said:
Found a meteorite once.
I gave it away to a friend who used it to make a really cool Bowie knife.
Man that thing could keep an edge.

Wait! That's the storyline from "The Iron Mistress," the movie about Jim Bowie's life story!

LOL!!!

jbett98 · Jul 20, 2015

That's were I got the idea. He was suppose to make two hunting knives. One for me and one for him.
I lugged that heavy rock for over six miles out of the Arizona desert and never did see a dime after he sold that knife.

Just Jim · Jul 20, 2015

I got an agate with water trapped inside it

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45alive · Jul 21, 2015

deadeye said:
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Those are nice samples, that fool's gold looks like Pyrite, Mica and Granite all in one. Funny thing is, where you find fools gold the real gold may be close by ! Not sure where you got that rock but there is gold in most parts of Oregon and you may have been close to a source.

45alive · Jul 21, 2015

jbett98 said:
That's were I got the idea. He was suppose to make two hunting knives. One for me and one for him.
I lugged that heavy rock for over six miles out of the Arizona desert and never did see a dime after he sold that knife.

You sure he made a knife with it ? :s0076:

Certain kinds of Meteorites are worth BIG $s ! :s0163:

Oregon has some of the biggest Meteorites in the WORLD, there is one that landed near Port Orford and another in the Willamette Valley. :s0083:

jbett98 · Jul 21, 2015

This all happened in 1980 the week when Mt. St. Helens blew it's top.
Someone else had found it, marked it with a pile of rocks by the side of the trail that led up to an abandoned silver mine.
From what I was told, it wasn't one of those museum pieces, just a fist sized lump of heavy iron.
My friend was learning metallurgy and blacksmith forging, so I gave it to him expecting something in return.

Certaindeaf · Jul 21, 2015

One of the cutest movies is The Long Long Trailer with Lucille Ball. She collects tons of rocks on their trip and of course, hilarity ensues.

Sgt Nambu · Jul 21, 2015

jbett98 said:
That's were I got the idea. He was suppose to make two hunting knives. One for me and one for him.
I lugged that heavy rock for over six miles out of the Arizona desert and never did see a dime after he sold that knife.

That just sucks! It sounded so cool, I was going to ask if you could post a photo of it! Bet he made some big $$$$ on that!