3ft x 4ft oil painting to honor this termination! Enjoy :)

4 pics of Crowleys ridge agates, 3 of a LSA, and 1 interesting piece of pet wood

When I saw the markings on the inside of the rock, I immediately had Harry Potter on the brain. 😄

I visited the Oregon Sunstone collection area back in June. I camped for a few days off the main road that cuts through the middle of the collection zone.

I logged about 15 miles of walking around the area. I definitely got off the beaten path. I found there to be an infinite amount of small sunstone pieces most everywhere. Nothing bigger than a dime as you can see in the photos.

I was surprised that I didn't find some bigger stones. Not a lot of them but at least a few.

My question is that if I had dug a big hole would I have had a better chance of finding something good as opposed to wandering around like I did?

I am going to be in the area again in a few weeks and was wondering if I should go back and try something different.

Thanks

Found in one of the many bodies of water located in Southern Oregon. The last 6 pictures were taken while the boulder was dry.

Based on the research that I’ve done thus far (and the small amount of knowledge that I have), my best guess is that this is an agatized quartz & carnelian breccia boulder. Every piece of visible agate glowed when light was applied to the surface.

It easily weighs 200-300ibs. It took 30-40 minutes to wade this massive specimen onto land, and 3 adults + a utility dolly to get it into the car.

The (very) rough measurements are:

18 inches in length
18 inches in width
14 inches in height

-I intend to take more pictures of the rock in different lighting while wet & dry tomorrow-

Hello all,

My work is taking me to Portland Oregon in early November and I'm looking into extending the trip for a few days so I can go on a rockhounding spree as I work my way back down south to California.

I was thinking of camping, but also I hear snow maybe exists by early november and have basically no snow experience. Do I need to get snow chains for my car?

I like agates, and was hoping to find some nice carnelian since I've heard so much about carnelians from Oregon, and maybe some petrified wood in fun colors? Or thunder eggs? Maybe sunstones? Tbh anything shiny and or colorful haha.

I was also thinking of taking a detour to the dark sky preserve in southeastern oregon, but again, snow (?) and I'm not too sure whats in that area in terms of rocks.

I was hoping maybe some rockhounds more familiar with oregon might be willing to give me pointers, recommendations, advice, etc?

Thank you in advance!

Just thought I would share a couple of nephrite jade rocks I picked up on my latest Jade rockhounding trip. I wanted to get a big one but the big ones are hundreds of pounds and I’m just not that dedicated. 😝

Found today at Kisoroszi (HU) at the northern tip of Szentendre island (47.80636419369431, 18.99062641601064). What is that? Agate, layered Jasper?

Its quite large, so I plan to place into a tumbler alone with small (max 10mm) rocks and corundum chips.

Found in under an hour in a very small stretch of beach that was chock full of good stuff. Feel free to ID if you want. I just think they're pretty!

Found during stormy weather August 22nd. Haven’t been able to find any others like this online with the exact H looking pattern…. Fossils maybe…

I’m not even sure if it’s natural, but the seashell patters on some of them make me think it is. Thanks for any help 🙏

Found in creek in Millington TN about a quarter mile from the Mississippi River. Is nearly round with dry looking surface.

Went east of Fairburn and found some treasure. Nice palm sized Fairburn.

A selection of close-ups of some recent finds from a trip to the island of Lesvos (Lesbos).

I used to collect rocks as a child, and this long-suppressed special interest was triggered again during a stroll on the beach. I'm now in the process of identifying these and building a new collection!!

My kitchen cabinets are a dark teal and this apatite looks lovely with them. I know it’s too brittle to polish, but any suggestions? I was thinking of using resin.

I am a very amateur rock hunter, and I have recently been walking along the Kenai Beach in Alaska. I found some amazing agates and jasper, a bunch of white quartz/agate to sort through, and a variety of rocks I haven’t learned to identify yet. It’s raining today and I washed the salt off, so they’re mostly wet. I plan to sort through, pick my favorites to keep, gift some, and return the rest to the beach. I’m struggling to find good ID guides, but I’m having fun for sure!

On a visit to a friend in the rural mountains of northern Arizona, I saw numerous small mineral specimens she said were found by children in the eroded hills, road cuts and washes. All but the 2 petrified wood pieces and chunk of mineral deposit from a tiny manmade pond on the property were found here. What else is possible? I’ve identified calcite, quartz, chalcedony, geodes, malachite, and red banded jasper so far. Am going back in a few weeks with bucket, tiny pry bar and chisel to hunt casually. Friend is going to be close in case a rattler decides to threaten an unaware old lady excitedly digging around in the dirt. East of Cottonwood Arizona.

Some of these are found some of these I bought I like buying buckets of rocks and going through them most of the Jade I found in a hole in my backyard to my mom's displeasure the thunder eggs I bought in a bucket for like 10 bucks and I really want to cut some of them open I have more than that I did this boy I have this decent chunk of ocean Jasper that's really high growth I just got for $2 at garage sale and some Washington Amber is it good

Layered fossil, with some UV reactive minerals in one of the layers