Rockin Root

 When rock hunting it is quite exciting to find the unusual. this is a root with a rock grown into it. It is stuck quite solidly and sticks out on both sides of the root.

Purple rocks

  During my last few rock hunts for some reason purple rocks see to have been calling my name. I am starting to wonder what color I will find next. The picture below I took to compare the purple rock to  pink and a blue because if only one color is shown you just never know if the camera will show the true color.

This is a soft lavender agate. It is the only one I have so far. But I know if there is one there can be more. I will keep hunting happily!  

Perhaps you wonder why I break so many of my rocks open. I do not have any rock tools beside a few hammers and I am always curious what the true color of a rock is. Often the outside gives you very little clue what is going to be inside. In this case it did look blueish and translucent. (I think it is the same rock I find at 7:50 in the video of the last post.)

Pine Ridge Rock

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! 

Baldy Beacon rocks

On a recent trip to Baldy Beacon, Mountain Pine Ridge, I picked up these square/rectangular rocks.

Polished and made into jewelry

 If you wonder how these rocks perform when polished or made into jewelry, here are some photos shared by a friend who has been here and collected these rocks in Belize. Thank you for sharing!

 (Sorry these are not for sale here)

Pine ridge rock

Clear Quartz, naturally tumbled

A  good day's find might include clear quartz rocks like these. Occasionally they come a little smoky but clear or almost transparent is more common.

Two-colored