[Rockhounds] Cash & Treasures on Travel Channel

[Tim Fisher]

A future episode is on collecting petrified wood and part was shot at 
Alex McDonald's ranch in Ashwood, OR. Alex has pulled some 
magnificent trunks from his Metasequoia "petrified forest" and I hope 
they got some footage of a nice big honker. They wanted me to take 
them to the Owyhees to dig picture jasper this month but there are so 
many problems with that area that I declined. One being the roads are 
gumbo and will stay that way until we get a nice long dry spell. A 
miner I know in that area actually declined to be on the show because 
he doesn't want any publicity for his mine (go figure). I am trying 
to get them to go to the Regency Rose, Richardson's Ranch, or Valley 
View mine next spring, all of which I think would be excellent 
subjects, but they "already did agate and thundereggs". Go figure. I 
don't think the viewers care of they do agate or thundereggs once, 
twice, or ten times, they need to get the word out about the 
excellent rockhounding "treasures" available in the Pacific NW that 
aren't called sunstones lol.

At 09:13 PM 12/2/2007, you wrote:
>FYI...Best Places to Find Cash & Treasures is back on the tube 
>again. Haven't watched it yet, but today's episode was about looking 
>for copper at Calcedonia copper mine of Lake Superior.
>
>Glad it's back on! Carol

Tim Fisher
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