Agate/chalcedony from the Nehalem River, Clatsop State Forest, Tillamook County, Oregon. May 30th 2016
Chalcedony, Tillamook State Forest #chalcedony #blue #rock #Tillamook #agate #rockhounding #Oregon #geology #mineral #minerals #quartz #shiny #cryptocrystalline #cryptocrystallinequartz
Spent today marching along the Willamette river with the amazing women of Portland, so here’s a weird agate I found along that same river last summer. Now gotta go back to work… (at Spin Laundry Lounge)
Someone said it was #WaterlevelWednesday (@lsagates I believe), and that’s a game I can get behind. Here’s some water level banding on a tiny agate pebble from god knows where. (at Agate Psychotherapy)
Little tiny agate with little tiny banding and little tiny crystals. Little tiny location unknown. (at Agate Psychotherapy)
I think I’ve shown you this agate before, not not in super close up form! White agate from, I think, the Willamette river. (at Agate Psychotherapy)
rrareearthh reblogged
I found this cool box at goodwill that originally was for spices from cost plus world market, and I thought it would be good to put rocks in (like anything). But here’s what I’m going to do:
Starting at 750 followers, I’m going to put a raw agate, jasper or petrified wood piece I’ve found in the box for every 50th follower until I reach 1000. There will eventually be 2 of each kind, and they’ll be good ones! I’ll reblog this post with a photo of the piece I’m putting in, and every time one of you lovely people reblogs it, you’ll be entered to win the box of rocks! The rocks box. You’ll win my rocks box. I’ll include sourcing information like location and date and some sort of display mounting material.
I’ll look through the reblogs and choose a follower based on reblogs with a lean toward geology and rockhounding related blogs, but mostly I’ll keep an open mind. I’ll announce the winner and a new name for this blog when I reach 1,000 followers! It could be years though, so let’s not get too excited.
Thanks rock friends!
Having reached 700 followers, I’ve chosen the first rock for the box! This is a piece of grey/blue chalcedony from a creek that feeds into the Wilson River in the Tillamook State Forest in the Oregon coast range. I found this specimen, which is quite representative of material found in the area, during a hike in September.
Reblog (and follow me, duh) to enter to win the full box once I get to 1,000 followers!
Quickly got to 750, so here’s the next rock: a little burly bit of petrified wood from my favorite creek near Vernonia, Oregon. They won’t all be grey/blue tones, I’ll be adding some bright jasper next!
Follow me and reblog this post to enter to win this full box of raw self collected specimens when I get to 1000 followers!
This probably won’t get a lot of traction, it being NYE and all, but I got to 800 followers today, so I’m putting this brilliant red/yellow jasper (with a bit of agate running throughout) in the giveaway box. I actually collected this in the same creek and on the same trip as the piece of petrified wood right next to it, from the last post… I meant to add pieces from more varied locations, but I’m hampered a bit by size/shape restrictions. Goes to show all the cool different things you can find in a small area, I guess!
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Blew right by 850 followers, but that’s okay cuz my math was bad to begin with, and now I’m at 900 so I’m adding another rock to the box: Molalla River agate, somewhat carnelian, from Canby.
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Second to last rock in the giveaway box! This piece of toffee, er I mean JASPER is from the Willamette River in Independence, Oregon and is actually one of my favorite rocks and I don’t know why I’m putting it in here. It has extremely subtle banding and is smoother than everything, and I’m a little sad to see it go but someone will love it as much, I’m sure. You know what to do.
Unedited close up of some carnelian from somewhere (at Agate Psychotherapy)
rrareearthh reblogged
I found this cool box at goodwill that originally was for spices from cost plus world market, and I thought it would be good to put rocks in (like anything). But here’s what I’m going to do:
Starting at 750 followers, I’m going to put a raw agate, jasper or petrified wood piece I’ve found in the box for every 50th follower until I reach 1000. There will eventually be 2 of each kind, and they’ll be good ones! I’ll reblog this post with a photo of the piece I’m putting in, and every time one of you lovely people reblogs it, you’ll be entered to win the box of rocks! The rocks box. You’ll win my rocks box. I’ll include sourcing information like location and date and some sort of display mounting material.
I’ll look through the reblogs and choose a follower based on reblogs with a lean toward geology and rockhounding related blogs, but mostly I’ll keep an open mind. I’ll announce the winner and a new name for this blog when I reach 1,000 followers! It could be years though, so let’s not get too excited.
Thanks rock friends!
Having reached 700 followers, I’ve chosen the first rock for the box! This is a piece of grey/blue chalcedony from a creek that feeds into the Wilson River in the Tillamook State Forest in the Oregon coast range. I found this specimen, which is quite representative of material found in the area, during a hike in September.
Reblog (and follow me, duh) to enter to win the full box once I get to 1,000 followers!
Quickly got to 750, so here’s the next rock: a little burly bit of petrified wood from my favorite creek near Vernonia, Oregon. They won’t all be grey/blue tones, I’ll be adding some bright jasper next!
Follow me and reblog this post to enter to win this full box of raw self collected specimens when I get to 1000 followers!
This probably won’t get a lot of traction, it being NYE and all, but I got to 800 followers today, so I’m putting this brilliant red/yellow jasper (with a bit of agate running throughout) in the giveaway box. I actually collected this in the same creek and on the same trip as the piece of petrified wood right next to it, from the last post… I meant to add pieces from more varied locations, but I’m hampered a bit by size/shape restrictions. Goes to show all the cool different things you can find in a small area, I guess!
Follow me and reblog this post to enter to win this full box of raw self collected specimens when I get to 1000 followers!
Blew right by 850 followers, but that's okay cuz my math was bad to begin with, and now I'm at 900 so I'm adding another rock to the box: Molalla River agate, somewhat carnelian, from Canby.
Follow me and reblog this post to enter to win this full box of raw self collected specimens when I get to 1000 followers!
I’ll stop spamming your feed after this, but I had to show you this impossibly small bright purple agate from today, I don’t even know how I found it! This color is incredibly rare around these parts, and very hard to photograph, and of course there was a blue fiber in the best shot. Still, I’m very happy with this tiny, tiny find.
First hounding trip of 2017, clockwise from top left: site 1 haul, nicely banded agate, biggest agate if the day, site 2 haul. Not bad for a few hours and half the gravel being under snow!
Giving all my agates a good cleaning, and wanted to show you this nice chunk of Nehalem River carnelian I found two summers ago. Pretty much my first time trying to rockhound, and it remains one of my best finds! #rockhounding #Oregon #carnelian #rocks #agate #rock #quartz #mineral #minerals #gem #gemstones #gemstone #cryptocrystalline #cryptocrystallinequartz #Nehalem #agates (at Solid Rock)
rrareearthh reblogged
I found this cool box at goodwill that originally was for spices from cost plus world market, and I thought it would be good to put rocks in (like anything). But here’s what I’m going to do:
Starting at 750 followers, I’m going to put a raw agate, jasper or petrified wood piece I’ve found in the box for every 50th follower until I reach 1000. There will eventually be 2 of each kind, and they’ll be good ones! I’ll reblog this post with a photo of the piece I’m putting in, and every time one of you lovely people reblogs it, you’ll be entered to win the box of rocks! The rocks box. You’ll win my rocks box. I’ll include sourcing information like location and date and some sort of display mounting material.
I’ll look through the reblogs and choose a follower based on reblogs with a lean toward geology and rockhounding related blogs, but mostly I’ll keep an open mind. I’ll announce the winner and a new name for this blog when I reach 1,000 followers! It could be years though, so let’s not get too excited.
Thanks rock friends!
Having reached 700 followers, I’ve chosen the first rock for the box! This is a piece of grey/blue chalcedony from a creek that feeds into the Wilson River in the Tillamook State Forest in the Oregon coast range. I found this specimen, which is quite representative of material found in the area, during a hike in September.
Reblog (and follow me, duh) to enter to win the full box once I get to 1,000 followers!
Quickly got to 750, so here's the next rock: a little burly bit of petrified wood from my favorite creek near Vernonia, Oregon. They won't all be grey/blue tones, I'll be adding some bright jasper next!
Follow me and reblog this post to enter to win this full box of raw self collected specimens when I get to 1000 followers!
Reorganizing my whole collection, finding larger display pieces I haven’t really posted here, like this small jasper boulder from a dry creek bed near the Rogue River outside Gold Beach, Oregon. Found summer 2015.
A huge chunk of yellow jasper with carnelian and streaks of red and green. Vernonia, Oregon 2016
Agate and jasper from the Molalla River, Canby, Oregon 2016
Found this beauty just now as I was walking up to my work; sun was hitting it just right for me to pick it out of a dirt pile in a construction site next door, and I only had to commit a mild trespass to snag it. The dark stripe across the middle is actually part of the banding, not an unrelated stain.