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I'm just a good ole collector living up here in NE Ohio area.  I run a business with my mother, who is really into gemstones and sells them.  I also run my own groups page:  http://groups.msn.com/WorldofArtifacts .  Please visit both and let me know what you think.  I collect fossils, artifacts, and all types of display and rough gems and minerals.

Great to be part of a group that is growing and full of interesting fanatics.  .  Way to go Erik keep it up

Joined 8/02 - enjoyed all the info.  Always looking for another place to collect.  Am putting together a sphere-maker which should be together in a week. Am a member of several collecting / lapidary lists.  My job is fixing computers in a computer retailing company - Compu-Gen Technologies.  I look forward to sharing collecting site info and experiences.

 My wife and I have collected from the following sites:

Ace of Diamonds in Herkimer NY

Crystal Grove in St Johnsville NY

Alden (pyrite nodules), NY

Crystal Point Diamond Mine in Williamsport PA

Franklin NJ  Buckwheat dump

Sterling Hill collecting pit

Sterling Hill  Passaic/Noble Pit

Bancroft , Ontario area

Mont St Hilaire, Quebec

Franklin, North Carolina sites

Morefield mine,  Amelia, Virginia

 

Collecting minerals for more than 45 years and now being retired as a psychologist in charge with ahndicapped children and their communicationaldisorders, I now finally find the possibility to exchange ideas, experiences and possibly exchanging first class minerals from all over the world. I am especially interested in wulfenite, pyromorfite,rhodochrosite, etc. especially when they are in good shape and condition. I am offering cabinet pieces from most European locastions, especially from Eastern Europe and England.

Who wants to give it a try ?

Looking forward to any reply, I guarentee a solid respons anyway.

stoneage is forever since forever

hopefully will find time to participate on boards ....

I joined this group, mainly to gleen information from, collectors who have gained

knowlege through their own discoveries, and hopefully help me to gain some skills in

Finding, collecting, and identifying rocks on my own property.

I live in rural PA, on a partly wood, and partly grass property, consisting of approximately 425 acres. I have been finding a lot of  semi clear rock like crystals, and have became fascinated with them, and would like to learn  more. It seems like my place is heavily populated with these! (I believe i have faeries in my garden, due to the amount of crystals i have found this past summer)

 

I moved to Connecticut from California in 1996 and have been slowly discovering what this region has to offer in the way of collecting opportunities.  I'm always interested in finding new specimens for my collection.  I have successfully interested my two young children (5 and 9) in collecting and thus I am especially interested in locales that are child accessible.  We travel quite a bit so I am also interested in hearing of collecting sites around the country and internationally.  I have recently built an area in my house for displaying my collection and am currently in the process of unboxing years worth of collecting, cleaning the specimens, labeling them, and putting them on display.  As a result I am also likely to look to this site for tips on preparing specimens for display.  In addition to what I hope to get from this site, I hope I can be of service to others as well.

Texas

I have been a serious rock collector since I was a child, and should have been an archeologist, missed my calling...problem I have nowis that there are very few minerals available to dig in Louisiana, some opal, scarce since the oil company closed off the site, some petrified palm wood, and halite crystals are down on the gulf coast, however, Arco won't let you in there to dig either.  I purchase most of my gemstones online through ACNTV.com.  They have an auction and sell some rough and many cut stones.  I collect all that I can afford to.  My favorites are rutile quartz, garnets, tourmaline and zoisite.  I am looking for some Kyanite rough, and hope to go to Arkansas in Nov. to hunt for diamonds and crystals.  I find all rocks, minerals and fossils fascinating.  I have one large fabulous fossil, an Eparietite (Ammonite,) from the Jurassic Period.  Found it last May at Lake Texoma on the Oklahoma side.  Would love to visit with others who share my obsession. 

Hallo my friends in USA. This is the first time i write anithing on the internet,so I hope I am doing it the right Way.I have been in love with gems and minerals since i was a child. I have been rockhounding in the beutiful mountins of Iceland for many years.I have got lots of minerales I would like to trade and sell Fex.Zeolites, Calsit, agates and jasper in a big variaty. I would be very happy to here from you?n      love DUI.

I am interested in rocks for wrapping/jewelry making,  I am married 23 yrs and youngest is still at home.  She is 20.  I have a Chihuahua, lab/pit mix, one black stripped cat and 9 rabbits (accident), bought mama and she had 7 babies the next day.  I love walking through the woods, especially in the winter with my mutt.  I am new to collecting and am interested in all aspects of the art.  I am sure I will enjoy it here.Medicinewheelwoman is my native name given to me by an elder so this is the name I go by most of the time.

 

Gwen

Honestly, finding a group like this, aside from my local rock and mineral society, filled with great people willing to share their wonderful finds, what more can a rockhound ask for? Anyone else here from Oklahoma? Missouri, Arkansas, Texas or Kansas with tips on collecting sites?