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Post by ragnor on Oct 6, 2011 2:55:09 GMT -5
Hello everyone, I got to wondering about some stuff and found this forum, I'm hoping perhaps some knowledgeable folks might be able to shed some light on this for me. A while back my stepfather found a neat hand specimen of quartz with some odd red inclusions. I went to the area and found some large hunks of petrified wood and jasper boulders, then a quartz teardrop then a piece of opal. Then a large hunk of citrine, a aqua-quartz cathedral and even a moqui ball. Also there is some strange shiny gem material similar to Oregon sunstone. This is all very odd because it is in a tiny creek in western Washington. So Ive studied it a bit and really cant make much sense of the geology behind this. There is sandstone in the material in the creek, but that just makes it stranger. There isn't much sandstone here. Ive heard there isn't supposed to be any...
So, Ive apparently pretty much cleaned out the creek of the larger goodies. My question is more less this. Knowing what I have already found, shouldn't it stand to reason that there should be more large geodes or cathedrals in the area? How do go about locating more large specimens? Digging through the creek bed dosn't seem to yield anything. I dig down a foot or two and I hit a clay layer. What would you more experienced rock hunters do to effect a more efficient recovery of desireable materials?
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Post by ragnor on Apr 25, 2013 23:46:09 GMT -5
Well I'm getting ready to make another trip to that creek, I see no one ever responded...
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