[Rockhounds] Disposing of collections

[OnyxCollector at aol.com]

I shudder to think of all the collections thrown away by  uncaring relatives, 
since just by myself I have seen it happen time and time  again.  Overhearing 
the grandkids plan on dismantling the 48 inch diamond  saw with a crane and 
tossing it in the alley in Bakersfield....... finding a  pile of saws, 
polishing units, and tumblers sitting in the gutter in  Reseda....... meeting a young 
guy whose neighbors' kids threw away a 40 foot  dumpster of tools and 
crystal/mineral collection in Big Bear (he rescued it  all and made a tidy 
profit)...... getting a late night phone call from someone I  never met asking me to 
please empty a bedroom packed with display cases of  material the next morning 
because they didn't have time to throw it all away  "before the Realtor gets 
here" in Van Nuys.  It's horrible.
 
 
In a message dated 1/14/2009 11:05:02 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
VevaBailey at aol.com writes:

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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