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 Topic: Pyrope panning 2020 |
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| stoner Replies: 1 Views: 6624 |
 Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: May 19, 2020 02:49 Subject: Pyrope panning 2020 |
| Pyrope panning
Hi friends, Today I would like to share with you another expedition, again for pyrope, or Czech garnet. this time I'm going to the stream, try prospecting. Here is a short video fro ... |
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| Topic: Pyrope in the parent rock serpentinite - quarry |
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| stoner Replies: 0 Views: 7720 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: May 19, 2020 02:42 Subject: Pyrope in the parent rock serpentinite - quarry |
| Hi,
I would like to share with you an expedition to an interesting quarry, where a Czech Garnet, called Pyrope, was mined earlier in the 18th century. The quarry is no longer active and is listed as ... |
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| Topic: Fluorite mine in Czech Republic |
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| stoner Replies: 2 Views: 6715 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: May 05, 2020 11:29 Subject: Re: Fluorite mine in Czech Republic |
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| Topic: Fluorite mine in Czech Republic |
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| stoner Replies: 2 Views: 6715 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: May 05, 2020 11:26 Subject: Re: Fluorite mine in Czech Republic |
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| Topic: Fluorite mine in Czech Republic |
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| stoner Replies: 2 Views: 6715 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: May 05, 2020 11:24 Subject: Fluorite mine in Czech Republic |
| Hi, if you want to see a visit to the former fluorite mine in Kožlí in the Czech Republic, I am sending a link to a video of a visit to the former fluorite mine, there is a pile of interesting beautif ... | |
| Topic: Fluorite from Czech Republic |
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| stoner Replies: 0 Views: 31482 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: Oct 17, 2019 09:34 Subject: Fluorite from Czech Republic |
| Hello,
I want to share with you a trip to the former fluorite mine, where it was mined before World War I, but the real boom came after World War I. Today, the quarry is abandoned, but there are stil ... |
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| Topic: Hyalite glass opal from Czech Republic |
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| stoner Replies: 0 Views: 31934 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: Oct 13, 2019 12:15 Subject: Hyalite glass opal from Czech Republic |
| Hello all, I wanted to share with you one of my excursions for minerals, specifically Hyalite. The location of the glass opal in the accompanying mineral of Stafelite.
Here is video from excursion, h ... |
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| Topic: Winter search for agate on tertiary spatter of sandy terraces of Elbe |
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| stoner Replies: 2 Views: 5838 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Jan 29, 2019 08:43 Subject: Re: Winter search for agate on tertiary spatter of sandy terraces of Elbe |
| Hello Pierre
Thank you and I am delighted that I can share the joy and passion of looking for stones ... Eastern Cape and Kwa Kwa in South Africa, wow it had to be an amazing and adventurous expedit ... |
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| Topic: Winter search for agate on tertiary spatter of sandy terraces of Elbe |
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| stoner Replies: 2 Views: 5838 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Jan 29, 2019 07:29 Subject: Winter search for agate on tertiary spatter of sandy terraces of Elbe |
| Hello forum.
Passion for the stones did not escape even in winter, so I left the capital of Prague in the Czech Republic just a few kilometers behind Prague on the tertiary gravel of the sandy terrac ... |
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| Topic: Panning the Czech Garnet in the Czech Republic |
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| stoner Replies: 6 Views: 8842 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 29, 2018 10:58 Subject: Re: Panning the Czech Garnet in the Czech Republic |
| You can save a LOT of time by real panning. Many Czech areas with abundant peridotites, eclogites, granulites and gneisses contain high amount of garnet in stream sediments.
Recently, localities l ... |
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| Topic: Panning the Czech Garnet in the Czech Republic |
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| stoner Replies: 6 Views: 8842 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 03, 2018 11:37 Subject: Re: Panning the Czech Garnet in the Czech Republic |
| Nice video with lovely background music. I know of a remote riverbed in Namibia (mostly dry) where there are thousands of small red garnets. Someday I would like to get permission to explore the are ... | |
| Topic: Panning the Czech Garnet in the Czech Republic |
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| stoner Replies: 6 Views: 8842 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 03, 2018 09:16 Subject: Panning the Czech Garnet in the Czech Republic |
| I'm sending greetings from the Czech Republic.
If someone is interested in panning (Czech garnet) pyrope in the Czech Basin here is a video from nature ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aWZ5n0v ... |
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