Collecting Rocks and Minerals

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Collecting Rocks and Minerals

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NamVet58

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nanaflower

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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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Welcome to a new adventure

Baby boomers are ideal candidates for becoming the new generation of rockhounds. Statistics reveal that baby boomers are concentrated in metropolitan areas, as opposed to rural counties. What bette... | posted by nanaflower

3 replies - last reply: "..........Roger and everybody else.... more" ~ NamVet58

remember, remember the fifth of november

It's been a bad day weather domistic or foriegn a terrible day | posted by JadeJunkie

2 replies - last reply: "................it is terrible, and... more" ~ NamVet58

Anywhere in the world

Nam's reponse to a post suggested taking off and collecting rocks all around the world. If you had one place (only one) on this earth to go collect rocks, or one place to see a geologic feature, wh... | posted by suzieb

16 replies - last reply: "................the only... more" ~ NamVet58

Giant Crack In Africa Will Produce New Ocean......

11/03/09.............Some awesome geological news here my friends. This should give every geophile something to talk about. Enjoy and ask questions class........ view link | posted by NamVet58

8 replies - last reply: "...............well, friends or... more" ~ NamVet58

Tests, tests and more tests

Topo map test last night. Thought I was doing pretty good last night till it got to drawing out a terrain. You know you have to mark the contour lines along a cross section of the map, then graph i... | posted by suzieb

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Not A Rock Story...........

.............but related to the rock collector I am......... .............................Into The Battle..................... ...........of words. As I prepared myself for battle, my hair was sh... | posted by NamVet58

2 replies - last reply: "................thank you my friend.... more" ~ NamVet58

Washington state sitting on supervolcano..........

.................big news in WA this morning about supervolcano............. view link | posted by NamVet58

6 replies - last reply: ".................our planets geology... more" ~ NamVet58

I am feeling.................

10/25/09............like I have failed many of my dearest of friends lately, as I have not written any new and exciting articles, while I have been so consumed by the legal challenges facing me of ... | posted by NamVet58

4 replies - last reply: "................thank you my friend... more" ~ NamVet58

Death march mystery

A while back my friend Aaron, my son and I went on a prospecting trip that turned into a death march. we lost or had to leave behind all our treasures save this one rock I stowed away in my pack. H... | posted by JadeJunkie

5 replies - last reply: "Very interesting looking. It does... more" ~ suzieb

Where is everyone?

Must be out rock hunting. I'm trying to study for next test. Earthquakes, plate tetonics and mountains...yuck. Plus were are working on topography maps. I've had some exposure to them before so get... | posted by suzieb

4 replies - last reply: "I quite understand. The older I get,... more" ~ suzieb

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