[Rockhounds] Cash & Treasures on Travel Channel

[Scotts Rock & Gem]

I've certainly seen elevated interest at gem shows in 2007 about things like 
sunstones, and megalodon teeth, etc. I realize this is due to the stir 
created by the Cash and Treasures show. But it remains to be seen whether 
legions of TV watchers will take up the pick axe and pry bar, as your "no 
publicity" miner probably fears.
The  producer's attitude that "we've already done agate and thundereggs" 
seems to lack the more full blown rockhounding fever, and is perhaps 
informed more by a TV producers sense of what might get viewers, versus what 
might get redundant. I've sometimes wondered how long a string of new and 
different rockhounding sites could be premiered, before you either get into 
nuances, or have to go on to something different to capture audience 
attention.

The words of Edward Abbey, musing on possible ways to convey the tourist 
into Yosemite, come to mind. From his book Desert Solitaire - "let them ride 
wild pigs!" For my part, I can say that if there's a block of time that 
comes up, and it's a choice between watching TV, and wielding a rock pick, 
you all know which way I'm going to go!

Seasons Best to all - Scott Blair
----- 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
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