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[lithicbeads]

My daughter  and I made an emergency trip to get a piece of carving stone to take to a friend in Wyoming in a couple of weeks.   The stone is a piece of dunite which can be seen on the gravel bar , the yellow boulders.
 The picture of the warning sign you may have seen before but I included it because there had been a glacial outburst flood in the week before I took this picture . The bar was covered in chocolate brown volcanic debris from a glacier not many miles upstream. The water rose and dropped approximately 6 feet .

[Asianfire]

Wonderful pictures, as usual. This area must be a collectors paradise with the glacier giving up new material, unseen for who knows how long.

[lithicbeads]

Rumor has it there is no jade in the drainage which is fine as many hundreds of pounds of jade from that drainage resides in my yard to be cut this winter. The heavy rocks like jade often just sink in the volcanic debris so you have to find the area where the deposit  has been intersected by the stream and collect there. That said I did find a nice jade while packlithic was making trip after trip packing dunite to the truck. I am carving replica teabowls from dunite . I stopped at a nursery in the nearest town and bought a wonderful decorative maple at a wonderful price and gave the jade away to the manager who lives on the banks of this stream. She was very happy to have it and will get a nice pendant of local jade when I get back from vacation. Jade makes folks happy and I like that .

[Enchantra]

Looks like a good time had by all. 
Of course finding Jade in a stream that isn't supposed to have it is a bonus.   

[packlithic]

Looks like a good time had by all. 
Of course finding Jade in a stream that isn't supposed to have it is a bonus.   

I need to start keeping a tally of all the streams that we have found jade in where there wasn't supposed to be any. We got two just last week!

[Enchantra]

I agree you should!  It makes me wonder if the folks who said there was no Jade in those streams did it to hide the fact that Jade was there! Wouldn't be the first time someone has done that.

[Itsandbits]

I bet all the flash floods and silting wreak havoc on the salmon roe, are they able to find enough gravel to bed in?

[lithicbeads]

This stream has a weir to divert water to a city so huge amounts of spawning areas above the weir are inaccessible . the side streams which can have many miles of spawning water that has no glacial debris are unfortunately devoid of fish.
 The gentleman who said he believed there was no jade is a scientist and a straight shooter. Rocks of a certain type can be very hard to find in very active rivers as Lloyd knows. It is easy for these rivers to hide their treasures.

[wampidy]

Thank you very much for the special effort of getting that rock. I had forgotten the name so this post really helps. How hard did you say that stone is? I went after it with a chisel and a riffler (mild steel) and it removed metal from both without being scratched much. Looks like it is going to be a hand grinder and water hose type of carving. Just so happens that a new Fordom type rotary tool arrived in the mail a while back and has only done some sissy work so far. I have not done a carving like that so it will be fun to do something different. The problem right now is that the weather is going to limit my outside work. Maybe I should take your advice and buy a house (with a garage)
Jim

[Helene Fielder]

Yes, I've gone rock hunting with you Frank.  Others find nothing and you spot a bunch right where they were looking.  Keeping your packalithic working.