Rare Earth

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!

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.