[Rockhounds] Virgin Valley opal pick picture

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Glen,

Unfortunately the website is only available to those registered for the
list. Could you email me a copy of the picture off-list? Thanks!

Kreigh





Glen Miller wrote:
> 
> Greetings all:
> 
> I've posted a picture of my "opal pick" at
> 
> http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/LA-Rocks/photos/browse/e2e1
> 
> I hope that is a publicly available site.  The yellow plastic
> (fiberglass?) handle is obvious. It had a True Value Hardware sticker
> on it when it was new. The two tines have slightly different angles
> to their points. One side is best for digging in a vertical bank; the
> other is best for breaking up clay clods on horizontal ground. The
> pick was being sold at the Royal Peacock 2 years ago for $60.
> 
> The Estwing pick is included for scale and because it is probably
> familiar to most collectors.
> 
> The pick on the left was introduced to me by a miner from the former
> San Manuel copper mine north of Tucson, AZ, as a "pickeroo." That is
> probably a local term they used for it. I found one after much
> searching online at a hardware store in Idaho. One name of that pick
> is technically a "Finnish hoe." I was surprised to see one in use in
> (as I recall) a video on quartz mining in Arkansas. The pickeroo is
> extremely handy in pulling down muck on a slope and even for moving
> small amounts of dirt out of an inclined hole when a shovel isn't available.
> 
> Glen
> 
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