Agate Adventure!, Agate Fever!!! Pics and areas. |
Agate Adventure!, Agate Fever!!! Pics and areas. |
Jan 25 2006, 12:02 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
I wanted to come in here and add a few pics for everyone, from the trip we took with Gat on our quest to find Agates...hehe
Our first stop was in Del Norte Colorado. If your this way, dont miss out on visiting there. The Agate here is amazing!! Here is a link of some examples of them in the Twin Mountain area.... Colorado Agates with inclusions Here is a pic of the area with our camp in the distance...... I was standing on an Agate bed when I took this pic...... Looking out SE toward Del Norte. Dan and myself will be cleaning some of the goodies we got on live cam during the next few days.....hehe I will let you know when we turn on the cam to see. Dan will also come in here and give more discriptive directions to the places we visited. All areas were open to the public for digging.
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Jan 25 2006, 02:06 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Here is a pic of the Agate we found in Del Norte Colorado.
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Jan 25 2006, 02:24 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
We pulled a few to the front that had Sagenite inclusions and possibly some Dendritic. Would sure be nice if we have some plume also.
Lots of them had great samples of boytroidal (bubble looking) formations, and lots with banding, From almost clear to a deep brown's and other colors at differnt locations around Twin Mountains . I'll add a pic of these cleaned up later, and you can see more of how they look. I'll post when we turn on the live cam to watch them being cleaned.
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Jan 25 2006, 04:40 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
The cam is on for the first batch clean up of the Del Norte agate finds.
These were collected in a bed (large dike) we found on the SE side of Twin Mtns. From Del Norte you head out hwy 112 toward Centre, just across the river you will find County Rd 15, it's a left turn only. Take that out about 4 miles or so till it makes sharp left turn....right in this 90' left turn is a dirt rd to the right...that is county rd 71 take that to the back side of the private subdivision (about due north) where rd 70 + 71 meet, keep going off that road to the north west along the wash (stay on the southern side of the wash for about a mile or so). This two track rd is unmarked but is a fs rd and takes you NW out to the base of Twin Mtns. When you are almost at the base of the mountain then cross the creek bed and the agate bed will be another 1/8 mile up hill, you will notice a change of color where the agate bed is...the soil is much lighter than the surrounding area. From what we have read there are several beds around the Twins and we only got to this one. You could spend a couple weeks here easy and have a really good time exploring. Hope you all enjoy. CP -------------------- CP-Owner/Administrator
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Jan 27 2006, 01:35 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Here is a pic of just a few choice pieces cleaned up......oooo they turned out nice!
Now onto the next spot we stopped at.
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Jan 27 2006, 01:42 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
We stopped to see the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona to get our taste buds going...hehe
WOW! What an amazing place it is! Everything in this pic is petrified wood except the sand and one weed at the bottom left corner.
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Jan 27 2006, 01:52 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
The color in some of this stuff is amazing!!!
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Jan 27 2006, 01:55 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
After seeing that, we went to find a spot to camp and get a good nights rest for a fun day of digging petfrified wood.
This is what we found the next day. Dan will come in and give directions to the spot we visited to collect. This are was near Woodruff
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Jan 28 2006, 09:26 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Here is a pic from our Web Cam of a couple of pieces of petrified wood that we cleaned off.
I cant wait to clean the rest up to see what we got.
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Jan 29 2006, 08:16 AM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 660 Joined: 17-January 04 From: wyoming Member No.: 63 |
that az wood is simply awesome, might need to get me some
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Jan 29 2006, 12:17 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
We left from the Petrified forsest national park's southern entrance/exit......which puts you onto Hwy 180, from there you will turn right to head into Holbrook (closest town).
There are a couple of roads marked on the maps but not named which will take you out to the south toward Woodruff. The route we took was from Holbrook and head south on Hwy 77 toward Snowflake (watch for Woodruff Rd) Turn left onto Woodruff Rd, go through Woodruff and out onto the open BLM lands, we found several very nice level spots to walk and pretty much just surface collect. Hint- Keep an eye on the road graded debri to the side of the road....we found some nice stuff there. If you keep traveling the same direction on that road you will end up back out on Hwy 180 between Holbrook and the Petrified forest park. We had a great time out there and we hope you all get to visit this spot too.....take lots of water. CP PS MrsCP will be posting more pics soon -------------------- CP-Owner/Administrator
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Jan 31 2006, 04:25 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Petrified Wood
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Jan 31 2006, 04:32 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Now off to get some Fire Agate and crystal flowers from the Opal Hill Mine In California.
Here is a pic of some of the goodies right on top of the ground. Can you spot them?
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Feb 6 2006, 09:58 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Should I zoom in more for the folks who wear glasses? -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥ |
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Feb 7 2006, 07:36 AM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 644 Joined: 2-December 03 From: London England uk Member No.: 36 |
oh yes please denise
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