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Rockhound Trip

Nothing Rock Shop

February 13, 2012

This was a most bizarre rock shop visit ever. I was confused by this article here. It is 2006 and people are gathering near the city of Nothing rock shop to have a rockhounding trip: I didn’t do more investigation and just drove 100k one way to find out that there is really NOTHING. There [...]

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Rockhounding at Rock Candy mine – videos

October 6, 2011

As I promised in the previous post, here is a picture of fluorite crystals plate that was sitting in my Rock Candy mine vug: And these are a few barite crystals from Bob Jackson’s lucky vug. All these specimens can be seeing in my booth at the Calgary Gem & Mineral Show next week. This [...]

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Rockhounding at Rock Candy mine

October 4, 2011

In July I visited the Rock Candy mine near Grand Forks, BC There is a photo report. Don’t forget to click on the picture to see some more on the topic This was a producing fluorite mine operated by Cominco, until it was closed in 1986 Bob Jackson, the current owner of the mine, explaining [...]

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Quartzsite Mineral show 2011

January 31, 2011

I just returned from the trip to Arizona where I was working for copper mine in Miami. On one of the weekends I had a chance to visit Desert Gardens Gem, Mineral & Jewelry show in Quartzsite. Here are some pictures from this visit Don’t forget to click on the picture to see some more [...]

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Black Hills Fire Agate Rockhounding

October 22, 2010

I just returned from the business trip to Arizona, where I had a chance to spend one weekend rockhounding for fire agate. This is amazing place called Black Hills Rockhound Area near Morenci copper mine. I had a great day there and would highly recommend it for visiting and enjoying excellent rockhounding in a desert. [...]

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