[Rockhounds] Disposing of collections

[VevaBailey at aol.com]

Hi all,
A friend of mine found a large beautiful piece of Lapis in the Carson River  
not far from my home.
Someone just dumped their collection back in the river. He found petrified  
wood too. 
I really think it is a shame that we don't have more "kids" interested in  
our "hobbies". 
I am always telling my Grandkids, to "bring me ROCKS". If they look pretty  
or what send Rocks!!
 
Veva Bailey
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/14/2009 10:41:18 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
tangojuli at yahoo.com writes:

Axel  commented on those who will have to dispose of our collections 
(children  usually, fire dept in other cases) in our wake. Recently out in the desert  
somewhere, friends and I discovered a dump pile in the middle of nowhere  
onprivate land to be developed soon. Someone just opened up the tailgate and  
pressed eject. We totally enjoyed it, but it was like an archaeological dig,  and 
we learned a lot about the former owner. My friends were thrilled to dig  
thru the historic bottle collection dating back to the 1890s and found slabs  
with cab outlines someone once planned to cut, jade, and other locality peices  
my friends recognized with breathless excitement. We found beautiful geodes  
and hunks of vivid chrysocolla that were dumped along with the detritus of a  
garage--wheel ramps, an old push sweeper, a 70s bicycle, a broom, old oil  cans, 
etc. I found a collection of tabasco bottles, and very old pop bottle  
collection. I found what turned out to be a nice
hunk of turquoise. The  1950s coleman lamp and 1970s olive oil can are now 
part of my historic junk  collection. 
The tin cooking utensils were mended by someone practically  minded, but the 
assemblage was a reminder that someday someone will see much  of our 
uncatelogued boxes and crates of unlabelled rocks and minerals as junk  to be disposed 
of (with the exception of Kreigh :). My fiance has a list of a  couple people 
to call in case of my demise to dispose of my collection.  Hopefully they will 
remember where I've been, because I've been lazy in the  last year or two of 
labelling stuff. (smile)
And instead of reading email,  playing with topo maps and planning my next 
trip, maybe I need to be out  cleaning out my garage which is now a shrine to 
collecting....
...tina  


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