About Collecting Rocks and Minerals
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Let's discuss the great hobby of collecting Rocks and Minerals. Whether it's a great trip you've taken, a special site you've found or general information about rockhounding we would love to hear about it! Feel free to post pictures of your treasures and share how you came to aquire them. Welcome to our group and Rock On!!
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We welcome posts about rockhounding trips taken, specimens found and general discussion and... more
Recent Messages
Adventure to Crystal Peak CA....
1/16/12...Howdy pardners. Yesterday my wife Ally and younger brother Dana and I, went on a short daytrip to Crystal Peak thru Verdi Nevada, and on out Dog Valley Road 27 miles. It is a nice drive w...
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posted by NamVet58
Adventure To Find The Flat Top Caves In Nevada....
1/1/12.....Howdy pardners. My wife Ally, and younger brother Dana, went looking for some new to us caves today. The Flat Top Caves 1 and 2 over in Churchill county south of Fallon, and apparently r...
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posted by NamVet58
adventures to Fireball Ridge and Nazelda Mine
1/5/12....Howdy pardners. On Thursday last, my wife Ally and I went on safari into deepest Nevada's outback. Not really that deep, just thought it sounded poetic......
...FIREBALL RIDGE AND RED CAV...
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posted by NamVet58
Meteorites
Anyone interested in hunting or finding meteorites. After many years of hunting old gold prospecting areas (mines, streams, etc.) my prospecting buddy and lifelong friend and myself have started hu...
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posted by ontheroadgi
The Quest For Nevada's Salt Caves and Paintings...
....Part Three: Finally Finding Nevada's Salt Caves With The Cave Paintings........
11/04/11....Howdy pardners. On a very cold 25F degree Friday morning, my brother Dana came out from Reno-Sparks t...
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posted by NamVet58
The Quest for NV's Salt Caves with Cave Paintings.
....PART TWO: THE CONTINUING QUEST FOR THE SALT CAVES......
10/29/11.....about two months later as summer's extra heat has faded, and fall's cooler temperatures making mornings more chilly requirin...
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posted by NamVet58
In Quest Of The Salt Caves and Cave Paintings.....
......PART ONE: SURVIVING IN THE DEAD CAMEL MOUNTAINS.....
08/20/2011.......It was a clear morning with promise of cooler temperatures of maybe a high of 85 degrees, as I and my wife Ally and my yo...
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posted by NamVet58
Hello All members......
......I have been out of sorts for a little while now while dealing with agent orange caused prostate cancer that I am really hopeful of beating. And I am also adapting to a new life with a new wif...
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posted by NamVet58
rockhound sites in South Dakota
If anyone is interested in coming to South Dakota to go rockhounding please check out www.wdgms.org post a message and someone will get in touch with you.
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posted by Calvin L.
Petoskey Stones............
In this area that we live in Northern Michigan, we have a unique stone found nowhere else (that I know of) It is called a Petoskey Stone. It was originally coral found in the Great Lakes. Actually ...
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posted by Espirit
