RE: Road Trip To The Utah Desert! P.1
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Why would you drive 620 miles, spend $400 on gas, just to go camp in the middle of the desert you ask? Gems and minerals of course.
My wife are hobbyist rock hounds and the amount of times we seem to have to justify our hobby to other people is insane! Like, I don't sit here and criticize you for spending the same amount of money while you stayed at home!
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Well, getting out was a hell of a lot cheaper just a few years ago....
Rockhounding provides exercise, exploration of our great country, peacefulness and plethora of other positive benefits. Sometimes, like this trip, you score too! 10 years of rockhounding I am pretty damn close to being a pro now. Knowing how geology works, things to look for and the difference between leaverite and something valuable.
I like the way you broke down the red beryl into how many diamonds it is in rarity. That's quite creative. And I like how in your other posts you don't beat around the bush about how much you can expect to get from your investment in stones. I don't think people realize just how "precious" some of these semi-precious gemstones can be. The Rainbow Garnets on your etsy are AMMMMMMMAAAAAAAZING! I didn't know garnets could do that! I'm originally from Sask, and we find a lot of tiny red garnet pebbles easily. Now I'm in Nunavut on a limestone island covered in fossils :D
Diamonds are not rare at all, especially when comparing them to real rare stones.
I know the guy who discovered the deposit of rainbow garnets in Japan. I had one from him last year that he had faceted, he has a lot of them, and it was incredible.
While I appreciate fossils, I haven't really gotten into them yet. It's a whole other world to work in besides gems & minerals. I know I will some day, just need to dig some up I guess then get bitten by that bug. Have you dug up many?
Maybe some day we can go hit Rapid Creek Yukon. Another friend of mine went mining there and brought back incredible lazulite, wardite, childrenite and tons more minerals. You gotta take a helicopter into the locality though.....