[Rockhounds] recent crystal collecting trips

[J Bryan Kramer]

You are probably better off getting a site at Flickr

BK

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:18 AM, <billtompkinscccc at comcast.net> wrote:

>  Alright, I'll ask.  Does this group have a site for posting photos??  I've
> got quite a few, from quite a few localities.  I guess I'm still kind of a
> caveman, but if you show me how, I'll get hundreds of photos from my files
> out and post them for everyone to see.  I've been just burning them onto
> CD's waiting for the right time.
>  I've been to lots of crystal collecting localities in Oregon, Washington
> and Idaho over the last twenty years, and took digital photos at almost all
> of them. I also have a passion for waterfalls and have lots of photos of
> them to share.
>  Help me thru the process and I'll be glad to share.
>
> Bill Tompkins
>
>
>
>
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> From: Glenn Wimpee <pawpawtiger at hotmail.com>
>
> > Are you going to post any pictures?
> >
> > I'd like to see that area of the country in the next few years.
> > Glenn
> >
> >
> >
> > EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOODJoin me
> >
> > > From: billtompkinscccc at comcast.net> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Date:
> > Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:53:32 +0000> Subject: [Rockhounds] recent crystal
> collecting
> > trips> > Greetings, rockheads,> > I've had a surge in crystal collecting
> > recently, so I figure it's time I reported in.> > Starting July 6, we
> spent a
> > week in Idaho. On the way east, we stopped at the zeolite locality near
> Spray,
> > Oregon known as Burnt Cabin Creek. We were on a schedule that didn't
> allow much
> > time and it was very hot, so we only stayed about an hour. That was
> plenty of
> > time for several good flats of chabazite, analcime and a little of the
> fibrous
> > zeolites.> > In Idaho, on Monday I visited South Mountain in Owyhee
> County.
> > Thunder Mountain Gold Company is getting ready to reopen the old metal
> mines
> > there, and they have posted an extensive report of over 80 pages in
> length about
> > this locality. Go to their webpage and follow the links to view their
> > fascinating reading. I was allowed to look through the dumps and found
> tons of
> > hedenbergite, and enough of the other minerals to satisfy me: copper,
> ilvaite,
> > garnet, zinc.> > On Friday, we went to see the Upper Peacock Mine in the
> Seven
> > Devils Mining District near Hell's Canyon. For directions, we were told
> "go to
> > the end of the road and then come back one half mile". Perfect
> directions. I
> > also had Lanny's collecting guide and a map drawn by Randy Becker that
> were
> > enormously helpful. What a place!! The wildflowers were in full bloom,
> the view
> > of Hell's Canyon from 7150 eet elevation was awesome, and there were
> copper
> > minerals and garnets to be found easily. Just bend over and pick them up.
> Then
> > carry them about a mile back uphill (at 7150 feet) to the car. And did I
> > mention, the closest hospital is two counties away? Great collecting,
> awesome
> > photos, glad I did it.> > Last weekend we went to the beach near Cape
> Lookout,
> > Tillamook County, OR. Our guests thought we were a little crazy to be
> carrying a
> > backpack full of tools down to the beach, but we showed them. On the
> beach we
> > found dozens of small boulders that were full of zeolites and calcite. We
> soon
> > had our packs full with plates of green clinoptilolite clusters with
> orange
> > balls of calcite. Pretty good for the beach. After lunch, we stopped at
> the old
> > quarry near the state park at Cape Lookout and found some good zeolites,
> but not
> > as many as in years past. The quarry is really overgrown.> > And finally,
> right
> > near downtown Milwaukie, OR last week I came across a landslide thathad
> some
> > pockets several inches across lined with two generations of stilbite
> crystals.
> > Not bad for just a few miles from home.> > And lately I've been thinking
> that
> > collecting was getting lean. Well it is, and it takes more gas to find
> crystals,
> > but they are still to be found if you look hard enough.> > Bill Tompkins>
> Happy
> > Valley, OR>
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J Bryan Kramer
North Florida, USA
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