some of my new fire agates and ammolite

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I really like the ammonite, I'd like to find something cool like that someday. I don't think I have a fire agate but I have a ring that a dealer at the flea market told me was "Botswana Agate". It looks sort of like your fire agates but is brown. I also like labradorite and tiger eye, especially the rare blue tiger eye.

If you ever go to Michigan, you should go to the Keweenaw Peninsula, there are some real cool Lake Superior stones there, agates and thompsonites, and something called "greenstone" which is found nowhere else on earth and which has something called chatoyancy, the same quality that tiger eyes and star sapphires have, except that it is in a turtleshell pattern. It's very rare and expensive. I've also found some pretty neat fossils down in lower Michigan, Petoskey stones, chain corals, crinoids, brachiopods and even a triobite! I'm always looking for interesting rocks, I pick them up from all over, mine dumps, road cuts, gravel pits, whatever. I know a great spot on the Chattahootchie River north of Atlanta where the riverbank just glitters with garnet-studded mica. Worthless stuff to some, but it was like stumbling on a gold and silver mine.

I love jewelry made from stones like that, it has so much more character than the mass-produced diamonds, rubies, and emeralds you find in jewelry stores.

i know what you mean. i more or less buy my rocks&gemtones now but when i lived in the desert i'd go rockhounding all the time. isnt that blue and red tigers eye dyed? or does it naturally come like that? i always thought they dye it. i also like tigers eye and chatoyency. (star ruby and sapphire being my favorite) also true cats eye, cysoberyl. i'll need to pick one of those up at the next gemshow they have here. i also like stones with special properties, like color change etc.. i wanna get my hands on some color change sapphires

gasp! Pretty pretty!

That ammonite fossil is GORGEOUS!

I have a little fossil collection and my pride and joy is a small leafy twig from the late Devonian plant Archaeopteris, the first true tree.

As far as I know the blue and red tiger eyes are not dyed, I have seen some raw (unpolished) specimens and they are naturally like that. I don't like dying stones, their natural colors should be enough.

There are some Devonian outcrops in this part of the world, but generally few fossils in the non-marine ones. I do have some sandstone slabs with a few placoderm plates, but they're generally badly fragmented. I'd be quite happy to find an Archaeopteris specimen, but I don't know if that's even been recorded from the areas I'm thinking of.

I found the the Archaeopteris fossil at a garage sale, it probably came from the eastern US.

Here in Minnesota the fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks are almost entirely marine. You'll find Cambrian sediments in the Twin Cities area, you'll find Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian sediments in southeastern Minnesota, and there are outcrops of Cretaceous sediments of the famous Niobrara Formation in western Minnesota. Fossil hunting is pretty though around here, the Mississippi and lower Minnesota river valleys are the only parts of the state with lots of exposed fossil-bearing rock, in much of the rest of the state it's either the Precambrian rocks of the Canadian Shield or rolling plains with an isolated outcrop of rock here and there. The closest well-known fossil area to where I am are the Badlands.

Hey, richardbenson - Please click on site below: Alaska minerology (just 1 pg). Look at that Dioptase!

In Denali National Park there is a mountain named Polychrome with distinct multi-colored layers of various minerals through the ages, like a X-section of time.


http://store.photosynthesisak.com/geolo ... ology.html

I hate Mexicans

Kalister hates Mexicans?

DROOL....... Those are such opulent pieces. I have never seen ammolite before. breathtaking.

Thats a pic of me if you haven't realized it.

I know, I just wondered why you said you hated Mexicans or is it the shells?

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Err never mind

Yeah! Damn mexicans!! !