I stumbled upon some interesting facts today about the amount of Minerals a newborn in 2008 will consume in there lifetime. The numbers a quite astronomical and disturbing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Today there was a auction in Nampa Idaho at the corner of Franklin and Cherry. I was quite excited about this as the stuff that was to be auctioned off was years of somebodies rock hounding memories, thats right about 50 years worth of collecting. I arrived a little early about 9:15 to see what [...]

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Good news to all rockhounds that are familiar with the Dismal Swamp area in Elmore County Idaho. Last year the Forest Service purposed the closure of this very popular rock hound location near Rocky Bar Idaho. The USFS was trying to close the site to protect the Bull trout in the stream that runs through [...]

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Alright I came across this website called UnearthedTees.com today and I thought that I would mention it here. The reason is it has my two favorite things T Shirts and Rocks what else could I ask for.
Unearthed Tees looks to have about 25 different designs of Geology or aka Rock Hounding T-Shirts. The shirts have [...]

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Saturday April 19 was the day that the Owyhee Gem and Mineral Society was going on its field trip to the Pink Plume Agate claim near Adrian in Eastern Oregon. Man this was going to be a fun trip as I have never collected Plume Agate before. The Agate we were going to be collecting [...]

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