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	<title>Rocks &#38; Gemstones &#187; Rockhounding</title>
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	<description>Beginning Rockhounds</description>
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		<title>Red Rouge Powder For Polishing Rocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 01:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red rouge powder can be used as a final polish when tumbling rocks. We have used it to get a glass like finish on apache tears/obsidian and agates as well as other stones. Red rouge is basically ferric oxide (iron oxide) or rust in the form of a very fine powder. As I said, red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lake Erie Labradorite, Saybrook, OH</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have really wanted to find some labradorite. It’s a very pretty rock. I had made a visit to a local lake where there was supposedly labradorite to be found, but there was very little access to the lake, and where we could get to, we found nothing but shale. And technically, taking rocks was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ray Mica Mine, Burnsville, NC trip report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I were visiting North Carolina to do some rock hunting. We had spent some time at Emerald Hollow Mine which is basically a tourist trap with a salted creek. I wanted to look for some native stuff. I had read about various places in the Blue Ridge Mountains. There are many mines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerald Hollow Mine, Hiddenite, NC (second visit)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had been to Emerald Hollow Mine three years ago. We had seen the show Cash And Treasures and were intrigued. We had no luck digging, but found lots of rocks in the creek. We saw how the one little field where school children dig was salted with stones. We learned later that the creek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harbor Freight/Chicago Electric Tile Saw for Cutting Rocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was out in Nevada and California, I collected many pieces of agate and chalcedony. Many of the pieces were small, but some of the pieces were larger. Too large for my wife to use for making jewelry. I considered breaking the pieces with a sledgehammer to make them smaller and more usable for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raytech Tumble-Vibe TV-5 rock tumbler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We already owned a bunch of barrel rock tumblers which include a Lortone 33B, Lortone 45C, Lortone 3A, Thumler A-R6, and a vintage Lortone tumbler that will do 6+lbs. These all do a great job. But they are expensive to use as they use a lot of grit/polish. They also take a month or more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agates/Chalcedony north of Beatty, CA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this spot listed in both Gem Trails Of Nevada and Rockhounding Nevada. There was supposed to be fluorescent chalcedony. I made the drive by myself. It was a pleasant drive listening to an audio book. The place is just off of 95, about 4.5 miles north of Beatty (GPS coordinates are 36°57.61800&#8242;, -116°43.01040&#8242;). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffington Pockets/Valley Of Fire Agate &amp; Chalcedony</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read about this site in both Gem Trails Of Nevada and Rockhounding Nevada. According to the book, there is a pale blue chalcedony here. I had planned to come over to this location with my dad who lives in Pahrump. But I was in Las Vegas on Saturday and had some time to kill. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agates/Chalcedony South of Death Valley Junction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was visiting my Dad in Pahrump, NV, and I wanted to do some rock collecting. Last year we headed up to Scotties Junction, and collected Apache Tears. This year I wanted to go down into the Death Valley area. It was actually much closer to Pahrump and we didn’t have to spend as much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attempted visit to Sperry Wash</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending a bunch of time collecting rocks at the Amargosa Borax Works, we decided to try the Sperry Wash area. This spot is written up in both Gem Trails of Southern California and Rockhounding California. There is supposed to be agate, petrified wood and fossils here. We drove through Tecopa, CA. There was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agates/Chalcedony/Opal at Amargosa Borax Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read about Amargosa Borax Works in both Gem Trails Of Southern California and Rockhounding California. The location is off of 127 about 0.9 miles south of Furnace Creek Road. (GPS coordinates are 35°53.13984&#8242;, -116°15.43878&#8242;) Across the road are the ruins of the Old Zabriskie Station which are not much more than a small column [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harrison Beach, WA Agates/Jasper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending a bunch of time at Crescent Beach, we decided to explore one of the other beaches listed in Gem Trails. We moved on to the Harrison Beach Campground. They charged $5 for a day pass. We just filled out an envelope, put in $5, and dropped it into a box, and parked in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crescent Beach, WA-Agates/Jasper/Petrified Wood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I were in Washington state visiting family. I bought a copy of Gem Trails Of Washington. We were staying in Kingston, so I looked for nearby places to find some good rocks. The nearest places were some of the beaches along the Strait of Juan De Fuca. The first beach we visited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kingston, WA Agates/Jasper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My in-laws live in Kingston, WA in a house that overlooks a beach on the Puget Sound. They don’t have direct access to the beach since there is a cliff there. But it is a short walk down the road to where I could walk down to the beach. The beach there is restricted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems polishing Apache Tears/obsidian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have 24 pounds of apaches tears that I collected in Nevada. We have been working at polishing them, but having lots of problems. The early tumbling stages went fine. My wife used a combo pack of polishing media that she bought on eBay. This is what we believe we used: Course grit (70 Grit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polishing Apache tears/obsidian</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my last trip to Nevada, I stayed with my father in Pahrump. My father and I took a day trip out towards Scotty&#8217;s Junction, and collected close to 25 pounds of Apache tears alongside the road. I boxed them up and mailed them back to my wife. My wife is working on polishing some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apache tears at Scotty&#8217;s Junction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was out in Nevada visiting my dad who lives in Pahrump, which is about an hour west of Las Vegas. I had bought a few books about rockhunting in Nevada before the trip. I searched to see what was close to Pahrump that would have stones that my wife could use for making jewelry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock hunting east of Pittsburgh?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I were down in Ligonier, PA this last weekend for a wedding. We took a leisurely drive down Friday, and arrive in the evening. The wedding wasn&#8217;t until 4:30pm Saturday evening. So we had a bunch of time to go off and do something Saturday morning/afternoon. In my book Earth Treasures Volume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labradorite at Canadice Lake?</title>
		<link>http://www.rocks-gemstones.com/labradorite-at-canadice-lake.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the book Earth Treasures Volume 1-The Northeasten Quadrant, there is supposed to be labradorite at Canadice Lake in New York. The book says from the east side of Canadice Lake to 2 miles west of Honeoye Lake. The keys say that it can be found On the surface and/or in the soil; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying black light for rocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our outing to Penfield Quarry on Saturday we found some pieces of fluorite. A few of the people there said it would glow under a black light. Cool! I used to have black lights when I was a kid, along with the various fuzzy black light posters. I might even have a black light [...]]]></description>
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