A Day Trip to the Rock Store

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We Visited the Store OPALUS

The store is the business of a well respected lapidarist and gem cutter, who was at an OPAL exhibition. His wife was very pleasant with our family and they had a great time there.

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We got to go in the back room to watch the GEODE be cut in half.

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Closeups of the Opened GEODE

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There was a loose piece that we heard rattling around inside the rock and we finally got to see what it looks like!

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It Was a Very Fun Outing!

The whole family enjoyed visiting Rochester and the rock store. We bought a few items to take home. The whole shop was full of treasure!


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Benjamin Turner: God fearer. Rooted in Messiah. Husband of @lturner. Father of SIX (!!!) wonderful children. The guy behind the camera. Blockchain enthusiast.

Bless the Most High!

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Absolutely phenomenal job thank you very much!

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Children sure enjoyed it.

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I was doing volunteer work at the golden treasure show and I was just experimenting trying to lose the gold out of my pan and found out you can't do that.. so I kept doing a little more and a little more and I got quite a pile going. This one guy comes over and starts yelling at me. He is accusing me of stealing it and I laughed and point out I don't have a snuffer bottle to collect it and I've been dumping it right back into the panning trough. Since he was so upset I gave the pan a little jiggle and then dumped it all into this little kids gold pan.

The guy was really mad and my gold mining mentor escorted him away to have a conversation with him. He was really upset and ended up getting reassigned to garbage duty.

And that four little kids spent the next 6 hours with one pan in his hand. Refusing to move refusing to go home and completely and totally focused. It wasn't until I walked over gave his fan a quick jiggle and then three washes and all of the heavy stuff was gone and all of the gold was just sitting there in the bottom. The kid had his own stuffer bottle that was empty and unused. Mom and dad were so grateful that I dumped all the dirt out of his pan and helped him collect it so that they could leave finally. The dad ended up stuffing enough funds for me and my previous dog to go have burgers and extra french fries for both of us.

Gold is highly addictive it doesn't matter what age you're at.

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Fascinating rocks! How tall is that rock in the second pic? It looks like Aquaman's coffin or smt!

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Probably three feet or so. Very big, very beautiful coffin for Aquaman.

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