Rare Earth

I don't mean to reference R Kelly in this day and age, but uh... I'm about to break y'all off a few previews of the Heulandite: peachy pockets of huge crystals dug yesterday in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest with @pnw_rocktography. Second day this week hounding in Washington state! Updates on both trips soon. #crystal #crystals #minerals #mineral #zeolites #zeolite #heulandite #pocket #mining #rockhounding #washington #geology #rockhound #peach #giffordpinchotnationalforest (at Gifford Pinchot National Forest)

It's our Friday night, so obviously we're going to spend it reconstructing parts of this crystal pocket I found on Tuesday with @pnw_rocktography. There are a few gaps, but overall it's coming along great! I knew I was never going to retain all the material with all the smashing we had to do. Might glue some of the loose selenite crystal sprays back on too if the field photos can be good enough reference. Rockshund for scale in the 2nd pic. . . . #rock #rocks #crystal #crystals #selenite #siderite #commonopal #botryoidal #aragonite #geology #basalt #rockhounding #oregon #clackamas #vug #pocket #boulder #puzzle #reconstruction # (at Crystal Palace, London)

Went up the Clackamas with @pnw_rocktography, who knows how to find the zeolites. Found this fairly huge pocket of siderite on common opal with big old opal coated selenite clusters. We busted up the huge boulder to more manageable sizes and got a lot of good display material and learned quite a bit too! Hit a quite productive calcite vein later, and I'm sure you'll see photos of that material on his feed soon. Damn good day out there in the snow, and it's only 3! #rocks #crystal #crystals #minerals #zeolite #zeolites #siderite #selenite #commonopal #botryoidal #vug #pocket #mthoodnationalforest #clackamas #clackamascounty #clackamasriver #rock #basalt #rockhounding #oregon #geology #silica #rockhoundingoregon (at Mt Hood National Forest)