Looking for a (Labor) Paid Guide Near Breckenridge 7/12 to 7/15, Gold/Fossils...Geology. Stratification. Love it all. |
Looking for a (Labor) Paid Guide Near Breckenridge 7/12 to 7/15, Gold/Fossils...Geology. Stratification. Love it all. |
Jun 19 2017, 10:57 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 19-June 17 Member No.: 132,263 |
First off, I'm a petroleum engineering student at TU (I'd go to CSM but I can't afford the cost of living!) that really appreciates the geologic aspect. But I'm from Oklahoma...only thing anybody ever rushed for here was free land! I tried finding a nice deep eddy in a deep canyon creek in NE OK and got heavy black sands but nothing shiny, but the geologic surveys didn't indicate much. I'm as amazed as the cashier at the tool outlet that they carried mining pans!
This time I want to come home with some flakes. Not expecting to find a nugget, I just want to find some. I'm open to panning, sluicing, whatever, and I'm a big guy, I can carry equipment. But a "guided tour" would be appreciated and compensated. Please reply or message me. Thanks |
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Jun 23 2017, 02:32 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 24-October 15 From: Colorado Springs Member No.: 121,949 |
Have you done any home tests to determine their properties? Scratch or specific gravity? Looks like obsidian at first glance. I've also found some petrified wood/algae that looks similar to that .
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Jun 23 2017, 04:06 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 19-June 17 Member No.: 132,263 |
Have you done any home tests to determine their properties? Scratch or specific gravity? Looks like obsidian at first glance. I've also found some petrified wood/algae that looks similar to that . Negative. I was starting to think obsidian too on the smaller dark pieces, they're different, and came from a different site than, the larger black piece which I also suspect is petrified. I think I am going to mount the polishing wheel on my bench grinder and take out all my polishing rouge for the small presumably obsidian pieces. I'll get back with results My grandma has an enormous piece of petrified wood that's much lighter in color that someone in her family apparently found out on their old farmland (supposedly...I haven't heard of it being around that area but I don't know for sure!), it's probably 18" long and at its largest around 5-6" in maximum thickness. It has to weigh 20-25lbs. . .she wanted me to put it in her flowerbed out front! I made her hide it some haha, it is a really cool specimen. I have another that I think to possibly be a large fossil, but I haven't followed up on it yet. By large, I mean a generally cylindrical, somewhat curved rock with a distinct channel running down one side of it with the other side covered with fairly regular "pock marks" about ~1" in diameter. I don't know of any geologic process that could result in such a regularly shaped, irregular rock. . . |
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