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OK, I went out and bought a tumbler and 3 grades of grit. Then I collected pretty rocks from my yard. Now I need to figure out which rocks to discard so I don't put them in the mix and ruin it.
Is there any easy way to identify the bad ones?
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The ones with tire marks on them? 
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I watched some show last week about digging for Black Opals in Nevada. Sounded like a good road trip. Anybody ever done that?
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old rock hound trick is to LICK them.. if smooth you can tumble. Also try to keep the same type of rocks together because of the different hardnesses.
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be careful that they aren't rabbit or deer nuggets.
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AuntyM
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I am so glad I wasn't drinking when I read that btf1. Almost fell out of my chair with mirth!
The different hardnesses is what I'm concerned about. How the heck can I tell the hardness differences? I collected pretty pinkish white quartzy looking ones, green ones, white with black stripes, black with white stripes, ones that are brick colored and even a couple that look like calico. 
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sort by color
Born is right but if you see a golden nugget.. it could be corn. DO NOT LICK the corn
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Quote:
BorntoFish1 said:
be careful that they aren't rabbit or deer nuggets.
I was drinking and now my monitor is very clean (folgers works great). Oh my that's funny 
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I'm a new rock hound also. I'm going to try and find Quartz crystals this summer. I have heard of someone in North Bend with a crystal mine. Pay to dig. Also I have hunted in the area of northern Nevada where some of the mines are. Iam planning on a road trip there this late spring.
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You steeleheaders ARE crazy arnt you, PAY TO DIG! you should be ashamed =). The headwaters of the chehalis yeild very good quartz crystals. Also if you like taking trips,
Up around Dillon or Bannock Montana is an EXCELLENT free digging area.
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Lots of interesting rocks on public ground in Nevada. Even some Gold nuggets if you know where to look.. Saw a junk of Gold laced quartz the other day that a fella had found out in the desert. 17 oz of gold in it. Funny thing was when I ask him where he found it he said up round zipper creek. He's weaking as I type. A few more gallons of the Jim beam down the funnel and he should be spillin the beans  2nd_Rod_Stamp just got herself a metal detector and tels me we can go looking for rocks when the fish quit biting. Why would I want to do that.
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D-Dog, a buddy from work went down around your place a month or so ago and found a 4 oz nugget with his detector. Has a coil the size of a garbage can lid on it. Paid for the detector and all the upgrades in 1 weekend. I'll put a GPS tracker on his car next time he's headed down.
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Great Idea Mojo. It would pay for some more fishing trips. gotta keep it all in perspective
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You also want to make sure you get the level right in the barrel so they tumble and don't just slide. Also make sure you have a bunch of different sizes of rock so you will get into the smaller areas while polishing. If you are a having fracture problems with the rocks you can add a handfull of those plastic BB pellets and it will stop them from craashing together and cracking.
Seems like my first barrel of rock took me 4 grits and 6 weeks of constant rolling on a 6lb tumbler. But the results were Whoooo! Some of the stuff has such a fine polish it looked like it was covered with liquid....
Do NOT dump the barrels down a sink to clean the stuff, it will harden in the drains just like cement, and the only way to clean them will be to replace the drain pipe.
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ROFL just looked at the date on the thread.,.. duhhhhhh
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