More agates +

If there is such a thing as a rock hunters heaven this would have been it for me.

We found every shade of red and several shades of blue, yellow and white, pink and gray, multicolored and a bunch of agates, translucent and banded. We found something that looks like blood jasper and mosses. You see the round stones we found in the top left corner. we also picked up petrified pieces and clear quartz crystal.

 These rocks are wet to show better color; but it also makes them appear a deeper blue than they actually are. But we had never before found so many blueish rocks. I found the biggest piece under foot after noticing bluish chips that probably got chipped when the bulldozer rumbled over it. I think I know now how it feels to find gold. Only recently we picked up what was the first deep blue we had ever seen, but either we have now developed an eye for blue, or we have found a source. Let's hope we can snatch some more of these before they are destined to be compacted into a road somewhere. :(

 

 If I can see right, this here is a nine lb. yellow jasper mixed with white. I was not just a little excited to dig this monster out of the ground. I do not know what the inside will look like but all the chips reveal yellow.

I hope you enjoyed the photos! And please feel free to comment or if you have any more names for my rocks that I should know about please share! 

Porous Rock

A friend had this rock that looked like a fossil of some sort. My guess was it is limestone because it was not heavy and chipped easily. To me it resembled a tree trunk but other than that I had never seen anything like it and it was a new one to me. 

Found in northern Belize

Petrified wood with crystals

This was a very rare find. A piece of gnarled petrified wood with black crystals on one end. The black part of the rock on the bottom of rock looks like some other stone than wood. Whatever it is, its a very exciting find.

Petrified Mud

As far as I can tell, this piece of dried mud is petrified. It does not change when sitting in water and sounds like a regular rock when banging it against another.

(This is actually not a Belize rock, so maybe it should not be on this blog, but I would like to include it anyway. It was found, if I remember correctly, in the US in one of the national parks.)