Anyone out there into rock collecting, geology?

[WaterWitchin]

Originally Posted by Ray

Aw, c'mon. That arrowhead looks too well preserved and "planted" to me.

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That's why we try to get out there after the creek gets super high then backs down. I'll get another picture story about our creek in a few days. A real mystery story...

[early]

I have been a rock hound all my life. Once when I was living and working as an RN in Asheville NC, I found yellow Quarts..citrine in a shallow river that runs into a lake and when I lived in Maggie Valley, I found crystal quarts in a former Cherokee area the size of a basket ball and greater than 40 or 50 lbs, which is greater than what I can lift in my 60s. What a jewel. The citrine I could lift, but they were half the size of a basketball. And I have something my father gave me, greater wt than I can lift, and he said it was meteorite. Maybe is Iron ore. I have never had it identified. it is the size of a basketball almost. The quarts and citrine were stolen out of my rock garden in Missouri after 2000/ I just know they did not make it to New Mexico when I moved here in 2007. The farm in MO in the early 2000s and when I was a kid there, had an unusual patch of rocky ground. I called it the heart field. Seem like every time I turned a rock over, it had a natural perfect heart in it, that was fun finding all of those.

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New Mexico, south of Albuquerque when I live, has flash floods that wash out artifact when it goes down. I haven't been out looking yet, but if I find someone to go with me, I will when we get some Monsoon rains and floods. Does not happen every year tho.

WW Now you have done it, gotten me back to one of my old obcessions. I worked on the Navajo Nation for a while when I first moved SW. Frequently found petrified wood in the state forest; I will take some photos of my heart rocks and the Iron vs Meteorite and the petrified wood, that is about 4 inches long and almost the size of my wrist.

[Subrosa]

I live very close to a very famous fossil hunting location, the Llewellyn Formation. It's noted for white fern fossils. Sadly the main area changed ownership a few years ago and new owners have forbidden the collection of fossils.

[Leafmite]

I did a little rock collecting as a child...nothing too amazing in the collection except a piece of polished petrified wood that I bought in the petrified forest souvenir shop. I consider that one rather special since I love plants. As an adult, when digging for my pond, I found a few stones with fossil...a fern-type plant and some small water creatures. As the children do not want them, I will probably see if our local museum does.