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Kosmic Kitchen: April 2012
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Daily Doses of Conscious Living, Eating, Growing and Healing on Earth, in Space and in your Soul! Saturday, April 28, 2012. For $10 a person you can mine all day long. You can camp there too, and everyone there is extremely kind and helpful. I found a bunch of stones and got some great advice from some serious miners. Here are some pictures of what I collected. Tons of double terminated herkimers on matrix with druze and dolamite. Herkimers on matrix with druze (needs to be cleaned). Links to this post.
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Mineral collecting: Spruce Pine Mining District
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A rockhounds story of collecting rocks,minerals and crystals. Sunday, March 20, 2011. Spruce Pine Mining District. Spruce Pine Mining District. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pegmatites,rare earth minerals,magnets and mining. Geology of New York. I am an avid mineral collector and enjoy field trips to mines,quarries and fee sites.I went green in some aspects about 35 years ago before the term was thought of.I enjoy the outdoors.Rockhound Steve. View my complete profile. Amazon Contextual Product Ads.
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Mineral collecting: Collecting Glowingrocks or Fluorescent minerals
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A rockhounds story of collecting rocks,minerals and crystals. Saturday, January 1, 2011. Collecting Glowingrocks or Fluorescent minerals. Some rock and mineral collectors specialize in collecting fluorescent minerals. The different wave lengths. Ultra violet or UV lights come in short wave or SW,long wave or LW and mid wave MW.Most minerals which fluoresce do so in short wave light.A short wave light is going to be a must have item if you are going to collect fluorescent minerals.There ar...Although the ...
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Mineral collecting: December 2010
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A rockhounds story of collecting rocks,minerals and crystals. Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Collecting Rocks,minerals,crystals and Gemstones. Collecting Rocks,minerals,crystals and Gemstones. This is a published article.Title is link to site. Monday, December 27, 2010. Tools of the Trade Collecting rocks and minerals. Some basic tools of the trade.Weather you are collecting rocks,mineral,crystals or gemstones you are sure to need these basic tools. Gloves.You need to protect your hands.Rocks can be...Safet...
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Mineral collecting: March 2011
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A rockhounds story of collecting rocks,minerals and crystals. Sunday, March 20, 2011. Spruce Pine Mining District. Spruce Pine Mining District. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Pegmatites,rare earth minerals,magnets and mining. Geology of New York. I am an avid mineral collector and enjoy field trips to mines,quarries and fee sites.I went green in some aspects about 35 years ago before the term was thought of.I enjoy the outdoors.Rockhound Steve. View my complete profile. Amazon Contextual Product Ads.
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2008 April
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Travel, Travel, Travel! Thrift Store Art Gallery. Crystal Grove (Herkimer Diamond) Mine and Campground, St Johnsville, NY. We enjoyed digging and screening for emeralds and other gemstones down in North Carolina. We looked for some place closer to us in New York. There really isn’t much in the way of good gemstones in New York. Oh well. But there are the Herkimer Diamond mines over in the eastern part of the state. When trying to break off chunks of rock wasn’t working, I tried breaking smaller chu...
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Mineral collecting: Tools of the Trade > Collecting rocks and minerals
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A rockhounds story of collecting rocks,minerals and crystals. Monday, December 27, 2010. Tools of the Trade Collecting rocks and minerals. Some basic tools of the trade.Weather you are collecting rocks,mineral,crystals or gemstones you are sure to need these basic tools. Never a good idea to use a regular hammer as flying pieces of steel can harm you EVEN blind you! Gloves.You need to protect your hands.Rocks can be sharp and can cut you.The chisel can be hammered with the rock pick or hammer...Safety gl...
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Herkimer Diamonds | THE MOHAWK VALLEY • WIKI •
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THE MOHAWK VALLEY WIKI. I NEVER SAUSAGE A PLACE. Baseball Hall of Fame. Air Force Research Facility. Owen D. Young. Brotherhood Of The Snake. Drums Along the Mohawk. Last of the Mohicans. Griffiss Air Force Base. Town of German Flatts. The Mohawk Valley Formula. Diamond is a generic name for a double-terminated quartz crystal discovered within exposed outcrops of dolostone in and around Herkimer. County, New York and the Mohawk. County outcroppings is what led to the name, Herkimer. They are so unique th...
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