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Coal Mine Basin, Idaho - Petrified & Opalized Wood

Coal Mine Basin, Idaho Rockhounding: Petrified Wood, Opal & Agate

2026-04-12

Beulah Reservoir - Fossil Bearing Deposits

Beulah Reservoir Fossils – Discovering Ancient Leaf Impressions

2025-03-06

Negro Rock Rockhounding, Oregon

Negro Rock – Hunting for Petrified Wood in Eastern Oregon

2025-03-03

Butte Creek at Crowley Road Rockhounding

Butte Creek at Crowley Road: A Remote Rockhounding Adventure

2025-02-25

Cottonwood Creek Oregon Rocks and Minerals

Cottonwood Creek at Crowley Road – Rockhounding in the High Desert

2025-02-23

Harney Basin Oregon Rockhounding

Harney Basin Rockhounding: Exploring Ancient Lakebed

2025-02-16

Mud Ridge Obsidian

Mud Ridge at Burns – Oregon’s Volcanic Glass

2025-02-13

Warm Springs Reservoir Rockhounding Oregon agate

Warm Springs Reservoir – Rockhounding Adventure in Eastern Oregon

2025-01-10

North Beede Reservoir Rockhounding Oregon

Exploring North Beede Reservoir: Rockhounding Guide

2024-11-29

Haystack Butte Jasper Rockhounding Oregon

Haystack Butte – Explore Oregon’s Owyhee High Desert

2024-11-17

Twin Springs Rockhounding

Twin Springs – High Desert of the Oregon Owyhee Uplands

2024-11-15

Plush Sunstone Oregon Sunstone Collection Area - Free Digging in Rabbit Basin

Oregon Sunstone Public Collection Area – Free Digging in Rabbit Basin

2024-10-28

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Boulder Creek Pyrite Rockhounding at Quartzville Creek Oregon: The picture "orange-stained quartz with pyrite cube" features a chunk of quartz rock streaked with orange and yellow iron staining, highlighting a small, shiny pyrite cubic crystal on its surface, set among other angular rock fragments.

Boulder Creek Pyrite Rockhounding Site, Quartzville Creek, Oregon

Brice Creek rocks, Oregon

Brice Creek: Gold Panning and Rockhounding in Oregon

Bruneau River Canyon Rockhounding in Idaho: The picture "Bruneau River Canyon jasper and river rock fragments" shows several tan, brown, and yellow jasper and river rocks scattered on dry, sandy ground, highlighting their varied shapes and textures under bright sunlight.

Bruneau River Canyon, Idaho Rockhounding: Jasper and Petrified Wood

The China Hat Geological Site in Idaho: The picture "China Hat Geological Site quartzite rock fragments" shows a cluster of light gray and tan quartzite rocks on the ground, some displaying angular breaks and rough textures, surrounded by scattered green grass and smaller stones.

China Hat Geological Area, Idaho – Fluorescent Rhyolite Site

Paris Canyon Rockhounding in Idaho: The picture "Paris Canyon Rockhounding hand holding brachiopod fossil" features a person's hand holding a thin, rectangular rock slab with a prominent circular brachiopod fossil at its center, with the dusty ground and a bag in the blurry background.

Paris Canyon, Idaho – Fossils, Calcite, and the Story of an Ancient Ocean

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