[Rockhounds] "list where the knowledge of many is shared freely"

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Drew,

I hope everyone, including Rockhounds, always has the option of sharing,
or not sharing, any information they may have, based on their personal
assesment of the information, and the audience. Humans need to be able
to decide.

A Court Of Law is a very different forum than an online list, or a
private exchange between friends/fellow rockhounds'; real rockhounds
play by the rules.

As a Rockhound, if you are not willing to share a collecting location
(at least with your closest collector friends), in a Trip Report, you
should legally claim it. 

Any/all collecting locations you may discover are not equal. There needs
to be a balance between the audience and the quality of the collecting
location.

I'll share knowledge of at least 80% of the collecting locations I know
of with anyone. We are going to have to get to know each other better
before I share the (few) other locations I have visited.

Kreigh







Drew wrote:
> 
> On Dec 20, 2007 9:33 PM, <OnyxCollector at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > PawPawTiger  said Rockhounds is a "list where  the knowledge of many is
> > shared freely". A furious debate is raging on the  LARocks discussion
> > group about
> > sharing the locations of places to collect rocks  and minerals at, and I'd
> > like
> > to see some opinions of the rockhounds on  this list.  Do you think
> > rockhounds should share the location of collection  sites, or should
> > people have to
> > earn the right to this knowledge by going out  first with someone else?
> 
> This is up to the individual collector.  No one can say who is wrong or
> right.  If I want to share my collecting locations with someone else, it
> shouldn't be a problem.  On the other hand, if I don't want to share my
> location, that shouldn't be a problem either.  But just because you found a
> site to collect at, doesn't mean that you are the "exclusive" owner of that
> site (unless, of course, you are able to stake claims... here in the east
> that is a no-go).
> 
> Is the knowledge of a collecting site  "intellectual property", and thus
> > should be
> > paid for?
> 
> If the individual wants to charge for the information, and there is someone
> willing to buy it, then so be it.
> 
> Is it wrong to post  GPS coordinates for others to use?  I'd sure like to
> > hear what you have to  say.
> >
> 
> I believe you can do anything, as long as you are not treading on a claim
> owner or private property, or something of that nature.  I have some
> locations around my neck of the woods that I will take people to, and once
> they know how to get there, they can go back whenever they'd like.
> 
> There are always a few bad apples that will tear up the property or dig so
> recklessly that they force the closure of the spot.  But I don't know if
> this would stop, even if people quit giving out location information.
> 
> Drew
> 
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