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I'm in the Ozarks, on the Arkansas line. Probably just limestone, but I am curious.
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If you want to have any chance at a nice specimen, whether it is a geode or not, pay somebody with the proper equipment to saw it correctly.
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I've dug (excavation ) in SWMO for 30+ years .broke plenty of limestone. Never seen a limestone floater that round. And if we an isolated piece I'd bet heavy it is not just limestone
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I've dug (excavation ) in SWMO for 30+ years .broke plenty of limestone. Never seen a limestone floater that round. And if we an isolated piece I'd bet heavy it is not just limestone You ever find any petrified wood around there? Excavating?
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A decent percentage of the quartz crystals people pay to dig, just south of you, started off as a geode but were broken open through natural processes, or the mining of the crystals.
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If you want to have any chance at a nice specimen, whether it is a geode or not, pay somebody with the proper equipment to saw it correctly. I'll try to find a place. I've dug (excavation ) in SWMO for 30+ years .broke plenty of limestone. Never seen a limestone floater that round. And if we an isolated piece I'd bet heavy it is not just limestone I'm close to your area. Like 45 minutes south i'm sure. Never had a reason to ask, and its none of my business, but close for sure.
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I've dug (excavation ) in SWMO for 30+ years .broke plenty of limestone. Never seen a limestone floater that round. And if we an isolated piece I'd bet heavy it is not just limestone You ever find any petrified wood around there? Excavating? Never that had been noticed, but itsusuallyfast and furious, lots of arrow heads in certain areas
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If you want to have any chance at a nice specimen, whether it is a geode or not, pay somebody with the proper equipment to saw it correctly. I'll try to find a place. I've dug (excavation ) in SWMO for 30+ years .broke plenty of limestone. Never seen a limestone floater that round. And if we an isolated piece I'd bet heavy it is not just limestone I'm close to your area. Like 45 minutes south i'm sure. Never had a reason to ask, and its none of my business, but close for sure. I've do a few projects in Branson , been as far south as Eurka Springs AR acouple times
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I’ve got a chunk of petrified wood, about 16” long, 7” diameter.
Came out of northwest, middle tn—
Still has QAL quaternary alluvial fill packed in crevices, red clay. was excavated by a friend.
Trying to figure out exactly how got in more recent soil horizons. Unless it’s petrification occurred in thousands of years vs millions or unless some wild form of deposition and delivery happened to place it in 5 ft of clay.
It’s coniferous by appearance of grain striation
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I have a petrified log.
It was a whole tree....sans branches of course.
I am MAGA.
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Used to be able to go to Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas my grandmother was a rock hound. She’d go and scratch around in a plowed field with other enthusiasts.
It’s a state park now.
Not sure if they still allow digging or surface gathering.
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Used to be able to go to Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas my grandmother was a rock hound. She’d go and scratch around in a plowed field with other enthusiasts.
It’s a state park now.
Not sure if they still allow digging or surface gathering. Still open. Worth goin, if you're in the area. Especially after a rain. Crystal mines in the area are much more fun though, especially with kids.
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I am MAGA.
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Used to be able to go to Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas my grandmother was a rock hound. She’d go and scratch around in a plowed field with other enthusiasts.
It’s a state park now.
Not sure if they still allow digging or surface gathering. I know they did just a few years ago, I'm to lazy to search for a headline, but it seems like someone found a diamond worth some jack... probably been 5-6 years ago.
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Might have to head over there some time. Ran across little clear pill bottle with the old woman’s crystals she picked up there.
We all used to go corundum ‘mining’ in Franklin North Carolina. Cowee Valley.
Buy buckets of dirt for a dollar and wash em in a screen, mill race of water. Find rubies, garnets, sapphire, rhodolite, etc.
The old woman loved that, I went back a couple years ago.
Epa or their local enviros cracked down on them for all the sediment delivery back into the streams. Only a couple remain open after engineering some holding ponds to abate the silt.
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I was cutting a trench for a waterline, this thing came rolling out. Kinda grey from the clay when it came up. I thought I had an honest cannonball. Was pretty excited. Do you guys think it might be a Geode, any way to tell without breaking it? Google Weaubleau Eggs. Quite a few of them around this area.
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Egg is right.
I wouldn't open it for nothin'
Prolly gots one a them dino sores in it. Might still be alive even.
Don't want to unleash that kinda thing in these times now, do we?
Might even be ALIEN, and you could be releasin' somethin' worser than the Corona!
LJ, all kidding aside, I'd go with geode.
I hope it's a good one too.
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