[Rockhounds] Cash & Treasures on Travel Channel

[jaybates]

Cash and Treasure did a shoot at the Benitoite Gem Mine this weekend. It was
snowing and cold, 11 degrees F Saturday morning. I was impressed at how well
the Cash and Treasure crew handled the situation. Most of them slept in
tents Saturday night. Kirsten is as tough as her profile on the Cash and
Treasure web site says she is. She is not just another pretty face for the
cameras. They also went out blacklighting after dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Fisher <nospam at orerockon.com>
To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Cash & Treasures on Travel Channel


> 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
> Ore-ROCK-On!
> Email address at http://OreRockOn.com
>
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