How about this sweet honey?
No, this one does not have those windows and fortification lines like the Fairburns have, but it does have a mineral composition that will certainly cause you to holler "Geez"! Yes this, small for its size specimen, weighs in at just under 12 pounds. Can you guess what the "glitter" is? If you said "GOLD", you said it all! I had this and other specimens professionally assayed. This chunk has right at 3 ounces of gold embedded in it! See, I do more than just hunt for Fairburns! This one came from about the 100 foot level, in a "Glory Hole" I like to call "The Lucky Strike"! So, where is this "Lucky Strike" you ask! Well, you have to go out the Highway a piece, turn North at the tall Evergreen, drive until you come to the broken fence post, adjacent to a pile of rocks, and "Walla", you are there. Just remember, it gets mighty dark down in those holes! If you happen to see a set of "glowing eyes" in front of you, and hear the gnashing of teeth, then you probably forgot to read the sign posted outside the entrance. A good point of rule to follow is always "respect" the "property of others"! If the sign says "NO TRESPASSING", thats what it means! "Claim Jumpers" are very severely dealt with, even in this modern day and age.
United States anyone?
I think the outline of this specimen is what attracted me to it. Yes, the State of Florida looks like it just got "whapped" with large wave, but just "squint", its there! And then maybe its caused by the "Voter Registration People" waving a "truce flag"! Yes I know, that was bad, please forgive me! This is a specimen of Teepee Canyon Agate. This material is found only in Teepee Canyon, west of Custer, S. Dak. If you get a hankering to go after this material, you will need more than "water"! No need to dip this stuff, the water is for your intake! You will also need: a sledge hammer, assorted chisels, pry bars, goggles, leather gloves, protective clothing, good sturdy boots(with steel toes), a satisfactory big sack lunch and last but not least, an ample supply of bandaids! The Teepee Nodules as we refer to them, are embedded inside large blocks of Limestone. An important thing I should mention here is the blocks of Limestone(usually weighing a ton or more each) are embedded in solid rock! Once you manage to get the block out, stay out from under it while it falls to its resting place, wherever that may be! Once the block is firmly immovable, "carefully" go to work in trying to remove the embedded Nodules. Remember, a direct hammer hit on the nodule itself will result in a very fractured nodule, and what good is that! Also remember that the limestone itself, when struck with a hammer, easily explodes and sends forth a shower of razor sharp "shards"! Now you know what the bandaids are for! They will penetrate even your leather gloves. Once you have removed the small "arrows" from your anatomy, bandage it good. When the day is over, pack up your tools, and "finds", and any "bloodied" rags that you may have accumulated. No one else wants to clean up after you! A good rule of thumb to follow here as well as any place else is: "If You Pack It In - Pack It Out"! After you get home, and get rested up for a couple days, and your cuts start to heal, examine the beauty of the specimens you brought home!
Well, I don't know about you but when I seen this one, I immediately thought about "ET"! It kind of resembles him somewhat I think. I had one guy say, "Yea, it kind of looks just like a stupid rock too"! I don't think he will ever make it into the "Rockhound" status! I see a lot of different images in rocks. Some are as plain as the nose on your face. I get the feeling that when I am trying to explain the features I plainly see in a rock, to non-rock people, they get that look like they want to start singing "they're coming to take you away, ho ho, hee hee, they're coming to take you away"! But I don't care, I see what I can see! Now, my wife, thats a different story! She picked up this one rock and claimed it looked like a credit card! I knew right away that this rock hunting trip was going to turn into an expensive Blue Light Special!
