Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Rock Hounding the Lake George Intrusive area of the Pikes Peak Batholith – Teller County, CO

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A new discovery rock hounding, is it possible? In the fall of 2023, Looky what I found I attended a Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society (...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Trick or Treat Pocket 29 Oct -- 6 Nov 2022. Rockhounding the Lake George intrusive area of the Pikes Peak Batholith

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No wildfires near Lake George, CO this fall.  Controlled burns like this one can produce a lot of irritating smoke While we were in the mids...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

September Rock Hounding: Amazonite, Goethite, Quartz and more

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Forest Service Road winding its way through the fall colors at Lake George, Colorado  I will document 3 different finds in this post.  First...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

August 2022 Rock hounding at Lake George [Amazonite & Goethite]

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A spray of goethite on quartz from the August dig I decided to dig in an area I had dug before. I had found fluorite, amazonite and goethite...

The Blues and Moose on the Loose in July

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  Highlight of this month was some moose at Lake George, not crystals The month of July was warm.  I took 2 weeks off rock hounding as it wa...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Jack Dempsey Pocket #crystal mining #rock hounding #Colorado

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I found this pocket on 24 June which just happened to be Jack Dempsey's birthday. Dempsey was a champion professional boxer, and Colorad...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

A Royal Scepter at Peterson Mtn

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  On Peterson Mountain, NV, near Hallelujah Junction (all good pics courtesy of Austin) I've been wanting to do some digging on Peterson...