Rock Hound Adventure Club

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Originally Posted by Alex

Am I the only one seeing completely empty spoiler boxes (except for the last one which has text but no picture)?

Hrmm... I am seeing all of them on a different computer. If anyone else is having this problem, I can give some linkages. They were posted on photobucket first....

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

But, did you find any gems?

Yes. We'll be cleaning some of it up this weekend.

As it turns out, it takes a bit of doing it before you get the hang of it. As of the time I took that pic of J looking at a specimen, we still really weren't sure what we were doing. In fact, it was only at the end that we had a full grasp of it, but by then we were exhausted.

A few hours into it, I realized I was tossing items that were actually a kind of opal that's brownish. I didn't realize that to get some of the fire out, you need to soak it a bit... yikes! I did, oddly enough, find a pretty good sized milky rose-colored stone in some old tailings from who knows when that had been pushed off to the side. I can't wait to get some shine on it, to see what I really have with some of the stones. I got mostly pinks, taupes, a little white, and I think a green specimen (which I'll determine whether or not it's opal after we clean it up).

We'll definitely be going again.