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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #75 on: April 22, 2020, 09:09:10 AM »
Interestingly enough I only have a 1 genuine Arrowhead form Missouri and a Fake one from Peru that was made for the tourist market. Real arrowheads and artifacts are pretty expensive, I'd like to get a framed collection of a group of them but thats gonna set me back at least 300 or more dollars. really good ones are like 600 bucks

I tend to move a lot so I know exactly what it's like to leave some behind,  :laugh:

I probably will never quit but at some point I need too. Sometimes I have buyers remorse and guilt like, I'm all "Why did I buy all this crap?"  :laugh:

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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #76 on: April 22, 2020, 10:19:09 AM »
Beautiful Jesse.  :o

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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #77 on: April 22, 2020, 10:23:38 AM »
Interestingly enough I only have a 1 genuine Arrowhead form Missouri and a Fake one from Peru that was made for the tourist market. Real arrowheads and artifacts are pretty expensive, I'd like to get a framed collection of a group of them but thats gonna set me back at least 300 or more dollars. really good ones are like 600 bucks


by contrast, you can buy english flint scrapers and such for a song on ebay.  By the dozen, even. Might be better if they stayed in situ to avoid confusing future Archaologists, eh? I thought of leaving mine in situ, but what the heck, it's a drop in the oceon.

I forgot to say, i do have one more rock: a piece of marble (i think) shaped into a pyramid, for use as a paperweight (so not entirely useless, eh?  :LOL:). It's special because my  (late)  Dad bought it for me as a birthday present. My Dad never bought anyone a birthday present; he left all that to Mum; but as soon as he saw this thing he thought of me, and just had to buy it for me.  And now . whenever I look at it, i think of Dad of course. And smile.

Btw, I like the "blue amber" but , err,  it's actually pink isn't it? :S

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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #78 on: April 22, 2020, 10:24:13 AM »
I have found some cool stuff over the years.  One of my prizes is a small ammonite fossil that I found in the creek bed of my inlaws place in upstate NY. 
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #79 on: April 22, 2020, 10:45:54 AM »
I have found some cool stuff over the years.  One of my prizes is a small ammonite fossil that I found in the creek bed of my inlaws place in upstate NY.

I had tons of fossils I think my mom just threw out in the garden when we moved from upstate NY.

Every other rock I picked up was a fossil of some sort up there. I used to come in the house with pocketfuls of rocks almost every day. 

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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #80 on: April 22, 2020, 11:51:55 AM »
Walkie, It looks Blue out in the Sun. It absorbs UV light and looks totally Blue but behind direct light is Red. It's super cool,  :laugh:
I'll have to check out those scrapers in situ. sounds interesting


IceQueen, Thank you!


Rockhound those are my favorite, actually really love ammolites.
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #81 on: April 22, 2020, 12:00:44 PM »
I have found some cool stuff over the years.  One of my prizes is a small ammonite fossil that I found in the creek bed of my inlaws place in upstate NY.

I had tons of fossils I think my mom just threw out in the garden when we moved from upstate NY.

Every other rock I picked up was a fossil of some sort up there. I used to come in the house with pocketfuls of rocks almost every day.

I did find a lot of clam fossils in the area of Cooperstown.  And there were a lot of intriguing fragments of other fossils that I had.  When I was in New Mexico I found some nice stuff like a fragment of petrified wood in in volcanic flow debris near Santa Fe.  My adopted Canadian inlaws in Alberta Canada had a ton of dinosaur fossils that they found in the nearby badlands of Drumheller.  I brought a few fragments of bone back with me that they said I could have.  They even had a piece of fossilized Dinosaur skin.   8)
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #82 on: April 22, 2020, 12:08:35 PM »
Nice! I much rather fancy fossils, my best one well I have 2 really is a Large Ammolite and a Pink Limb cast (Petrified wood) from Nevada. It's totally Pink Chalcedony replaced the wood and Gemmy too


I also Love Jade, both Nephrite and Jadeite. Faceted Moldavite,  :laugh:

I can't get my hands on enough I tell ya :hitler:
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #83 on: April 22, 2020, 04:19:22 PM »
Amber, my daughter is still hoping that a meteor or pallasite falls her way.  There is a rock shop in North Conway, that has one, but, it's not for sale......yet!    :'(
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #84 on: April 22, 2020, 05:42:46 PM »
This thread totally rocks, Jesse.   :zoinks:
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #85 on: April 22, 2020, 06:40:44 PM »
Thanks to you.  :grouphug: :zoinks:


Rockhound - I hope she can get one. I want a pallasite also but they are $$$$$$

I do have a Canyon Diablo Iron Nickle meteorite from AZ, weighs about 286 grams and set me back a few hundred bucks. It will be my only example of a space rock,  :laugh:
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #86 on: April 22, 2020, 08:07:43 PM »
What's the story behind your avatar? I really like the colours of that rock.
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #87 on: April 23, 2020, 09:14:04 AM »
It's a Malachite from the Congo. Had it a few years, got it in Mt. Shasta City  :)
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #88 on: April 24, 2020, 10:31:26 PM »
Love it. And it's a decent size, too.
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Re: My rock collection is finally complete.
« Reply #89 on: April 25, 2020, 09:32:45 AM »
Just got this Golden Rutilated Quartz pendant
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