Rock Hounding

[shunt]

Anybody else like to look for gems and minerals...? Just wondering....

[Yota]

I've never really tried gem-hunting but I've always been a bit of a rock nerd. I enjoy learning the geology of an area, looking at the layers in road cuts, etc. I'd probably also enjoy digging up fossils, although I have never tried that either.

[Oscar]

sonis just getting into it which means I get to play driver. He has a bunch a red garnets from ruby mountain but he really wants to hit wolf creek to look for geodes.

[OrangeCrush]

We did that in the diamond fields in Arkansas one day it was awesome!!

[kmon35]

My neighbor, when I was a kid was way into it. I inherited his rock polishing and saw stuff when he passed. I wish I had the time to mess with it. It just sits in a shed now. He would cut and polish some of the neatest stuff, and then make mats, for like a fireplace, with them. He also would cut geodes, I think. Looks like a rock with crystals inside.

[Yota]

Geodes are hard to find and good ones are really hard to find from what I understand. But they are very cool.

I inherited a small mineral and rock collection from my uncle when I was a kid and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Since then I've thought geology, and especially mineralogy, were really cool.

Colorado seems like a great place for finding minerals given that our state has produced a lot of the more valuable ones commercially.

[shunt]

Colorado does have some really great areas to pick from...... The geology is amazing.....:drool:

We have quite a few Keokuk geodes that we found in Iowa...They are pretty cool... Anyone know what types of geodes Colorado has..?