[Rockhounds] Houston question

[Tim Crump]

The Houston Gem & Mineral Society website is www.hgms.org. Their site
has a lot of information about collecting at Whiskey Bridge and some
good info for petrified wood near College Station. I collected once from
the Brazos River at "Whiskey Bridge" and got some nice small marine
fossils, but I've pulled several hundred pounds of petrified wood from
the creeks in this area. However, with all the rain the spot on the
Brazos will likely not accessible for a while. The heat is really bad at
the moment too.

Timothy E. Crump, P.G., C.P.G.
Project Manager
TGE Resources, Inc.
6120 W. by Northwest Blvd., Ste. 100
Houston, Tx. 77040
Office - 713-744-5817
Fax - 713-744-5888
 

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gene at fossilnut.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Houston question

Also, you might want to touch base with the Houston Gem and Mineral
Society. 
An excellent club with a large membership and their own club house. I
was a 
member back when I lived in Houston. Really nice folks too.
Gene Hartstein
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From: "J.R. Hodel" <JHODEL at wvdep.org>
To: <territoones1 at ameritech.net>; <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:32 AM
Subject: [Rockhounds] Houston question


> Hi Teresa,
>
> My Dad had a very rare form of leukemia, CMML, and was admitted to a
> clinical study at the M D Anderson Cancer Center.  You can rest
assured
> that your family will receive the best and most advanced care
possible.
> I spent many hours there with Dad and my brother (who worked in NW
> Houston at the time) and the staff at all levels were highly skilled,
> friendly and compassionate.
>
> Regarding collecting, as several others have already mentioned,
Houston
> itself is on many feet of sediment from eons of erosion, so bedrock is
a
> long ways away in the immediate area.  But there are a couple of
really
> nice rocks shops, not too far from the Anderson Center, and just a
> little ways north you get into an area where there is a lot of
petrified
> palm wood, which I understand is quite attractive.  Jeanne's Rock Shop
> is at Phone :
> 713-664-2988
> Address :
> 5420 Bissonnet
> Bellaire, TX  77401  USA
> Phone :
> 713-664-2988
> Address :
> 5420 Bissonnet
> Bellaire, TX  77401  USA
> 5420 Bissonnet in Bellaire TX, which is a little city inside Houston.
> Call 713-664-2988 and get directions to visit them, they're great
> folks.
>
> Also, partly because of the oil industry, there are a ton of
geologists
> around Houston, which has resulted in (1) the Houston Museum of
Natural
> History having one of the best mineralogical collections and displays
in
> the world and (2) the Houston Gem and Mineral Society having probably
> the best equipped and most experienced membership of any rockhound
club
> anywhere.  281 530-0942 or www.hgms.org.
>
> I hear that up around College Station there's a bridge over the Brazos
> River, at a county line, where you can collect on the river bank.
> Interestingly, it's called the Whiskey Bridge, because Texas A&M
> students went there fropm dry county to buy booze.  I have a nice
> selenite that a cousin gave me that they collected from the Brazos
River
> bank during low water.
>
> Best of luck with all the medical issues you guys will have to deal
> with.  The folks at MD Anderson are the best!
>
> JR in WV
>
>
>
>
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