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 Topic: Mojave, California: What is It? |
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 Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Aug 19, 2022 21:33 Subject: Mojave, California: What is It? |
| Hello All, I have a favorite place in the California region of the Mojave Desert to hunt for minerals. The area is to the south-west of Death Valley and Searles by 40 miles. There are volcanic buttes ... | |
| Topic: Favourite Tourmalines? |
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Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Oct 20, 2020 20:48 Subject: Re: Favourite Tourmalines? |
| Although it is not museum quality as many here are, this is very special to me because my son and I collected it in Riverside County, CA when he was 14. This is a 2.2 lb bi-color. Although dark, the ... | |
| Topic: what is this? |
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| Catahoula Replies: 4 Views: 11518 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 25, 2020 11:35 Subject: Re: what is this? |
| Thanks Bob, I have found some beautiful Royal Imperial Jasper (green to cimarron) that seems to be branches, at a lower elevation. Much of this is actually found in seams of lava rock rather than di ... | |
| Topic: what is this? |
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Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 25, 2020 10:49 Subject: Re: what is this? |
| Hello Mineral Forum,
I am a Mojave Desert wanderer and I have collected amazing specimens over the year of walking. This is a recent find. It is from the locale of Mojave, CA. The area hosts chalc ... |
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| Topic: what is this? |
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| Catahoula Replies: 4 Views: 11518 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 25, 2020 10:48 Subject: what is this? |
| Hello Mineral Forum,
I am a Mojave Desert wanderer and I have collected amazing specimens over the year of walking. This is a recent find. It is from the locale of Mojave, CA. The area hosts chalc ... |
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| Topic: "What is this? / Where is it from?" |
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| Catahoula Replies: 0 Views: 21672 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Jan 29, 2020 21:19 Subject: "What is this? / Where is it from?" |
| Hello All,
Another puzzle for you. Location is the Southern Sierra Nevada of California. Locality is in proximity to a known sphalerite deposit and there is considerable garnet on epidote (a flat gar ... |
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| Topic: Your very first rock? |
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| Catahoula Replies: 14 Views: 35264 |
Forum: The histories behind mineral specimens Posted: Apr 25, 2019 11:53 Subject: Re: Your very first rock? |
| Thank you Peter. this was the content of that first pocket. I have been trying to recreate it ever since! | |
| Topic: Smoky or Smokey |
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| Catahoula Replies: 21 Views: 27604 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Apr 25, 2019 10:27 Subject: Re: Smoky or Smokey |
| Great post Joseph. The minutia of what we do not generally think of in our day to day. While I previously used the term Smokey for my quartz specimens, today I used Smoky twice in posting to FMF. Th ... | |
| Topic: Your very first rock? |
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| Catahoula Replies: 14 Views: 35264 |
Forum: The histories behind mineral specimens Posted: Apr 25, 2019 10:05 Subject: Re: Your very first rock? |
| I am fairly new to this group and it is posts like this that inspire me. Thank you all for your stories. When my children were 4-8 we went on "adventures" in the mountains and deserts of Ca ... | |
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