What triggered our interest in rockhounding most was seeing a tv show titled Cash And Treasures. We had been flipping through the channels looking for something to watch and found Cash And Treasures on the Travel Channel. It was Cash And Treasures marathon, and they were playing the 30 minute long episodes back to back. It was a cool show.
On the show, the host Kirsten travels to various places to hunt for valuable stuff like emeralds, sunstones, meteorites, gold etc. We became very interested in trying some of these things. Most of them were in other parts of the country, but we like to travel, so we planned to work a vacation around one or more of these places.
The episodes that we saw that day that most interested us were Sunstones in Oregon, and Amethyst in Georgia, but also Eggs (Geodes) in New Mexico, and Meteorites in Kansas looked interesting too.
I went online and found some other episodes that they were playing that day, but that looked good where they go hunting Diamonds, Aquamarines, Sapphires, and Opals.
I was guessing that the host had help beyond what regular visitors get. Also, I wondered if people from the crew dug, sluiced, etc, and then she got credit for the find on camera. It wouldn’t make a very interesting show if she found nothing. Also, it would be in the best interest of the places where she paid to mine if she found nothing, found a piddly amount.
