Rare Earth

Coast range quarry day with the lads @unearthed.minerals @pnw_rocktography & @mining.treasures, finding some icy summer weather, sick calcite pockets and some purpleish flint/chert that I failed to photograph. Remember, always backfill your tracks with your own droppings, to hide that you were ever there. #rocks #crystals #rockhounding #oregon #geology #agate #rock #agates #crystal #quartz #mineral #minerals #specimen #pnw #silica #calcite #pyrite #quarry #coastrange #nature #view #pnw #ice #tillamookcounty (at Calcite art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZVl12tLCmf/?utm_medium=tumblr

Sampling of all the sick golden calcite on clear chabazite that @unearthed.minerals led us to a few months back. This stuff is endlessly aesthetic, and looks amazing under magnification and UV light. Very fun to photograph, but I neglected to really clean these before I documented them. The best of this stuff can now be seen at @carneliancoffee, but I'll be sure to post more of it this week #rocks #crystals #rockhounding #oregon #geology #agate #rock #agates #crystal #quartz #mineral #minerals #specimen #pnw #calcite #chabazite #zeolite #zeolites #quarry (at Rainier, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/rrareearthh/p/CYStSPFrVi-/?utm_medium=tumblr

Glowing golden calcite atop water clear chabazite crystals found today on a prospecting trip with my dude @c_rackelman of @unearthed.minerals at a site he honed in on in Columbia County. As we were mostly trying to find access, we didn't bring any equipment but we're pleasantly surprised by a bunch of great fresh float material. We'll be back for sure soon with some buckets at the very least! #rocks #crystals #geology #zeolites #rockhounding #oregon #rock #crystal #calcite #chabazite #quarry #mining #silica #mineral #minerals #microminerals #columbiacounty (at Soft Rock Cafe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRxhlsABAXA/?utm_medium=tumblr

Check out this bonkers lava tube formation in a Washington quarry; scale is it's friggin huge. Very blue groundwater I'm assuming is saturated with minerals overlaying Troutdale formation deposits. I don't know though. #rocks #geology #formation #quarry #nwgeology #lavatube #rock #basalt #andesite #Washington