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Off Topic Area => Random Musings => Topic started by: AveIArts on June 18, 2022, 07:16:05 PM
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Yeah it was breezy but a very nice day here. Wished I could've known before and maybe, Bert and I could've gone out on a short day trip to gather some rocks. Oh well maybe next time...
Learn to love your neighbors,
AveIArts, aka Anita
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Boulder City, Nevada?
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Boulder City, Nevada?
:hello: Yeppers! :coffee2: Since August 2001 :icon_sunny:
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Boulder City, Nevada?
:hello: Yeppers! :coffee2: Since August 2001 :icon_sunny:
I am a native of Las Vegas.
Is getting a bit hot to go many places. Luckily just got back from a 3 week trip to Reno. Found a lot of great stuff on the way up and more on the way back.
Will probably be going up to Cold Creek shortly. Much cooler up there,although not a whole lot to find. Mostly honey calcite.
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Boulder City, Nevada?
:hello: Yeppers! :coffee2: Since August 2001 :icon_sunny:
I am a native of Las Vegas.
Is getting a bit hot to go many places. Luckily just got back from a 3 week trip to Reno. Found a lot of great stuff on the way up and more on the way back.
Will probably be going up to Cold Creek shortly. Much cooler up there,although not a whole lot to find. Mostly honey calcite.
Lucky you, yeah, it is getting a bit too hot! I'm sure its reasonably nice in Cold Creek. What do you look for when you go out hunting?
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Will probably be going up to Cold Creek shortly. Much cooler up there,although not a whole lot to find. Mostly honey calcite.
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Lucky you, yeah, it is getting a bit too hot! I'm sure its reasonably nice in Cold Creek. What do you look for when you go out hunting?
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Not much at Cold Creek. I have found some nice deposits of honey calcite up there. I usually go up there to get my dog Jax away from the fireworks. They do not scare her at all, but she barks at them telling them to knock it off. And I do not want her running outside barking all night so I usually take her to Cold Creek to play while it is light and to avoid the fireworks when it starts getting dark.
I search for a lot of different things. Mainly copper-silver ores and red selenite crystals locally. Occasionally garnet bearing rocks (garnet amphibolite, garnet anorthosite, garnet gneiss, garnet in various colored quartzes) locally. Collected mica in quartz and leopard chromite down by Kingman. Purple agate, purple jasper, pastellite and lizard stone down by Burro Creek. Have gone for wood jasper, green chalcedony, moss agate, epidote, unakites, purple andesite, Cady jasper, Green Fairy jasper, turquoise, pink chalcedony, sard, magnetite, petrified palm root, pyritized wood, and bluish chert down in Southern California. In the rest of Nevada chalcedonies of various colors, common opal/opalized wood of various colors and patterns, moss agate, bornite, turgite, azurite, malachite, turquoise, carnotite (potassium vanadium uranium oxide), oxyplumboroméite (lead antimony ore), colorful druzy, blue agate, eye agates, sunset jasper, Wonderstone, candy rhyolite, gabbro, Nevada Tiffany stone, coprolite, garnets, galena, barite, black dacite, green dacite, sulfur crystals, green rhyolite, Apache tear, fossil sponges, fossil corals, Nevada pudding stone, etc. All depends on how far I am traveling or wish to travel and what I am in the mood for.
I travel often to Northern Nevada and have various locations I like to visit on the way up and back and always try to check out at least one new location each way to see if they are worth going back to.
Also like to go out looking for meteorites. Will do that once in a while.