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- I Have Been Busy Rockhounding but . . .
- Goldfield Lays Bryan Smalley to Rest
- And That’s 30 for This Edition
- Denver is Back On!
- I’m Back. I Hope.
- Some Cheap Greed Head Always Ruins Things
- But wait! There’s more!
- Christty Hazley and that Crazy Marble
- Back from Tempe, Arizona
- Going Away for a Month
- The Paranormal and PTSD?
- The Moon Tonight
- I Needed to Say This
- I’m Over at Instagram
- Sunshine Gallery and Gifts is Open!
- 100 Goldsmiths!
- The SatFi 2 is Dead
- New YouTube Video on Goldfield, Nevada
- Soapstone or Talc
- The Worst Medical Provider in the Country
- New Rules for Filming at National Parks and on Public Land
- The Early Hiker in the Desolation Valley Primitive Area
- My First Indian Artifact Find
- Intermountain Healthcare Doesn’t Care
- New Printer
- I’m Selling Rocks!
- Good News
- Project Zeus Checks In
- BLM Replacing LR2000 — Thank God!
- A Personal Note for Brian
- Nick Zentner is Very Good!
- I’m Still Here and Getting Ready for Quartzsite
- Quartzsite is the Place to Be
- I Ran Today!!!
- A Very Nice Letter
- More Wanderring
- An Explanation
- You, in Your Well-lighted Sky
- Typical Collecting Story and Why the PLP Matters
- Why I am Not Staying at Home
- Merry Christmas or a Happy Chanukah!
- South of the Grestley Mine Part 1
- South of the Gretsley Mine Part 2
- An Adventure to Remember by Minister Mark Frady
- Does the SatFi-2 Work While Moving?
- Saat Fi-2 Service Down Again
- Back to the Shaw Mine and Beyond
- Sat Fi-2 Service Down Again?
- Sat-Fi 2 and Spot X Updates for December, 2020
- North Nopah Range Wilderness Area and Shoshone
- Protected: this is a test post
- Trying to Correct Website Connection and Speed Problems
- Globalstar Shutting Down Sat-Fi2 Service For 48 Hours!!
- Where to Find Agates in The Mojave
- November 16, 2022 in the Resting Springs Wilderness Area
- More Recently Along CA HWY 178
- My First Article for The Mining Journal
- Back to Those Copper Prospects in the Striped Hills
- The Baxter Mine, Inyo County
- Vision Update
- Sunshine Gallery and Gifts Reopens!
- Wishing You The Best
- Back to That Unnamed Canyon in Section Three
- Probably Not a Wintering Ground
- An Indian Wintering Ground?
- Bird Break!
- Explanation Coming Later
- Rolf Luetcke on Fossils
- Toward The Barnett Prospect
- Upcoming Hike to the Barnett Prospect in Inyo County, California
- If You Ever Wondered What I Really Do
- Another Road, Another Mystery
- In The Hills above Shoshone, California
- In Case You Didn’t See Them
- Experimenting With Google Earth Studio
- Quarztsite and Tucson 2021 are Still On
- Textise.net Comes Storming Back!
- A Delicious New Mountain Range Has Appeared
- How Do Fossils Form?
- Trying to Document a Nighttime Fluorescent Mineral Hunt
- A Day at the Kokoweef Cavern and Mine Complex
- Another Day in The North Nopah
- Another Firmware Update for the Sat-FI2
- Site Update
- More in the North Nopah
- In The North Nopah. Again.
- Tips For Summer Desert Rockhounding
- Moving Out and Up!
- Experimenting With Green Screen
- In The North Nopah
- Geological Provinces of the Southwest
- Different Jewelry Designs Featured in Wallpaper* Magazine
- Richardson’s Rock Ranch in Madras, Oregon
- I’m Moving Out of Las Vegas
- Latest Visit To Goldfield, Nevada
- My Rare Earth Metal Element Set A Year Later
- Video of the Gemfield Gems Chalcedony Claim
- What Color Do You See?
- Dah Rock Shop in Tucson, Arizona
- You Don’t Have Enough
- Mining Makes Today’s Life Possible
- Charging the SatFI-2 and the Legacy Spot-X
- Long Nosed-Leopard Lizard
- Mesquite Bosque at The Desert National Wildlife Refuge
- Schedule Your Disaster
- Prospecting For A Pegmatite Pocket
- Did You See The New Gallery?
- Wallpaper* And Jewelry
- Update
- Finally! An Affordable Sat Phone
- Run Off Twice In Three Days
- Desert Pavement
- Two Minutes Walking in A Desert Wash
- New Videos
- Modern Day Desert Snails
- Out to Nopah (Again)
- Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park
- Nevada’s Spring Mountain Ranch
- Recommended Reading and Resources – So far . . .
- Wikimedia Commons Example
- This Might be My Last Post for A While
- Nevada’s Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park
- Update on Railroad Pass, Clark County, Nevada
- My New Mexico Chapter is Now Out
- Another Day For Railroad Pass and a UV Night Hunt
- Aloha!
- More on Railroad Pass, Clark County, Nevada
- Day Collecting at Railroad Pass in Clark County
- My First State Chapter is Out!
- Site News and What’s Coming Next
- Adding Glow To Your Life
- At Railroad Pass in Clark County, Nevada
- Darwin, California. Inyo County.
- New Book Update
- The Coronavirus, COVID-19, and Some Numbers
- The Rockhound Roundup is Coming to Deming, New Mexico
- The New Book is Coming Along
- Treasure Hunting
- A Quick Search for Camptonite
- From The Striped Hills
- Baby Girl Mining Keeps Going!
- Beyond Books
- The Reality of Mining Claim Research
- Just Checking In
- Mineral Habit in Tucson (another mineral show)
- The Gold Cube Part Two
- The Gold Cube Part One
- Detecting on Desert Pavement
- Another Honest Video From Baby Girl Mining
- Gold in Quartz Jewelry Designed by Jason Fabbi
- Day Four Postings at Quartzsite Coming Along
- Day Three In Quartzsite, Arizona - 2020
- The Coolest Looking Watch in The World? Or Out of This World?
- Day Two of The QIA PowWow in Quartzsite, Arizona 2020
- The QIA PowWow in Quartzsite, Arizona, 2020. January 15th. Day One.
- Upgrading My Videos
- UV Color Shifting
- Gold’s Power
- Prospecting for New Areas
- From Quartzsite, Arizona
- So Much for Trying to Help
- The PowWow is One Week Away!
- The New Convoy C8 Dragonfly LW Ultraviolet Flashlight
- Casts, Molds, and Impressions
- A Look at Color or Black and White
- For the Shell of It
- Self-publishing, Quartzsite, Stalled Projects
- Consolidated Rock and Mineral in Vacaville, California
- Checking In After A While
- Etching For Benitoite
- Honest Miners
- Joe’s Rock Shop in Orderville, Utah
- Full Disclosure
- Rock-A-Buy: Rocks and Gifts in Duncan, Arizona
- Jim Gray’s Petrified Wood Company in Holbrook, Arizona
- The Rainbow Rock Shop in Holbrook, Arizona
- Version 11 of My Places to Visit and Collect in The Southwest is Out
- Princess Pat Mine Afterglow
- My Best and Worst Find of The Day
- The Gold Lady in Golden Valley, Arizona
- When Trouble Hits Off-Road or Off Trail
- Classifiers or Screens
- Tire Trouble Coming Up!
- Traveling Off-Road In The Southwest
- A Mystery Metal, The Whites’ GMT and the Falcon MD-20
- Mystery Crystals Revealed as a Mystery
- Unexpected Geode Find!
- Version 9 of the Southwest Travel List is Out!
- Recent Field Trip Update
- A Nevada Turquoise Adventure from 2015
- Gold Today
- The Estate Rock Yard of Ed Rupprecht in East Las Vegas
- Beginning at the Ending: Railroad Ballast and Slag
- Another Desert Field Trip Coming Up
- Places to Visit and Collect in The Southwest Version 6
- More From the Desert Floor
- Black Sand Gets Stranger
- Glowing Rocks From The Desert
- The Oceanview and Pala Chief Mine in Pala, California
- Version Five of Southwest Places to Visit and Collect is Out
- Version 4 is Out - Minor Additions and Corrections
- Annotated Reading List of Rock Related Titles
- Organizing Maps With WalMart
- Antler Makes a Great Crystal Digging Tool
- Rock Related Places to Visit and Collect in The Southwest
- My Book Is Officially Dead (at least in hardcopy)
- Cheaper Microscope Photography?
- Again Along the Spanish Trail
- Hawaii In A Bottle
- On Cats and Collecting
- Rattlesnakes!
- Sandstone Collecting and A Gila Monster
- Sad News From Land Matters
- Back To The Nopah Range
- Visual Rock ID Sessions at UNLV
- How Diamonds are Made And Free Gemology Courses
- Radioactive Rocks and Rough Russian
- Willemite and Calcite from The Scott Mine in Arizona
- 32 Green Gemstones (How Many Do You Know?) from the IGS
- Carnotite Musings — Experimental Video
- Qualitative EDS analysis on The Mystery Slab
- Rare Earth Mineral Observations So Far
- Getting Out The Scope
- The Kokoweef Cavern/Mine Complex
- Book Contract Cancelled
- Moving On in a Desert Wash
- What Do You Think?
- An Apology Regarding My Book
- What is Twenty Acres?
- The Best Geology Dictionary I Have Ever Found
- For Once You’ve Panned the Speckled Sand and Seen the Bonny Dust
- Mapping It Out
- Desperately Trying to Organize
- Drew Barkoff: Friend of The Book
- Book Update
- Wikipedia is A Starting Point. Only.
- Another Tool of The Trade: The Falcon MD 20 Gold Tracker
- Burro Creek Campground Near Wikieup, Arizona
- More From Rolf Luetcke in St. David, Arizona
- Rockchuck Gem & Mineral Gallery in Schurz, Nevada
- Bryan Smalley and Hidden Treasure Trading Company in Goldfield, Nevada
- Another Update on The Gemfield Gem Claims in Goldfield, Nevada
- Mineral Mystery Musings by Rolf Luetcke
- Minerals Unlimited in Ridgecrest, California
- The Drill
- The Ernst Quarries Near Shark Tooth Hill, Bakersfield, California
- It’s All About The Gram
- A Destination Rock Shop Opens in Arizona!
- Keep That Spray Bottle Handy!
- Greetings From the Nopah Range Wilderness Area
- The Southwest According To My Book
- Field Trip in The Mojave Desert Coming Up!
- What Rock, Gem and Mineral Photographs Can’t Show You
- Print Out a Map, if Not for You, For Someone Else
- BLM Doesn’t List Rockhounding As An Activity Anymore
- Pala Chief Fee Dig, Pala California
- Bill Depue, Founder and President of Diamond Pacific Tool
- You Collect What You Like
- Minerals Make Life
- What Is A High Clearance Vehicle?
- Last Note From Plymouth: Siderite Sighting?
- Greetings From Plymouth, California
- Latest Spot X Firmware Update Available
- My Four Hundred Dollar Rock
- A Little More From Oatman, Arizona
- Jade Piece Drilled Out
- A Little From Quartzsite
- What Does an Agate Look Like?
- Quartzsite is Here and The Fun Has Begun!
- How Not to Travel to Death Valley
- SpotX Update — Important News For Mac Users
- Support Mindat.org As They Reach For Their 2018 Goal
- Mining By Mail
- Tucson and Parking
- The Tonopah Historic Mining Park Part 1
- The Value of Crystal Forms in Mineral Collecting
- New Post at My Writing Blog — Microscope Photography
- Mining Activity Clues
- Take Location Photographs!
- The Forty-Mule-Team at The Rio Tinto Mine Near Borax, California
- At The Rock Garden at UC Davis, California
- At Tonopah Nevada’s Historic Mining Park
- Points North
- Internal Cross Section of A Fossil Sponge?
- Feldspar and Quartz Crystals
- Poor, Poor Porphyritic
- Gearing Up for Photos
- Label Those Cables!
- It’s Got To Have Sheen to Shine
- The Kelly Mine in Magdalena, New Mexico
- A BLM Permit for Rockhounding?
- Family-Owned and Operated Emerald Mine in North Carolina Needs Help
- Wide Angle Photography or Photoshop?
- The Problem With Model Releases
- Picture Sandstone: Common and Extraordinary
- SpotX Satellite Messaging Device Update
- Where In The World is Thomas Farley?
- In Taos County, New Mexico
- The Best Rock Shops are Always Closed
- Upcoming Tour of Arizona and New Mexico
- First Jade Carving
- Jade Carving Class Taught By Marina Shoupe
- A Dike is Not Always a Levee
- Kingman Turquoise
- The Gold Lady in Kingman, Arizona
- Chloride, Arizona
- What Packing For A Day Trip Looks Like When Writing a Book
- The Western Silver Deposit Belt and The Colorado Plateau
- New Mexico in October!
- From Rough to Refined
- Thoughts on Making Plaster Casts in The Desert
- Fooling Around With A Logo
- Somewhere on the Spanish Trail
- From The Calico Mountains
- Collecting Outside of Barstow
- Roughing It by Mark Twain
- Monsoon Season in The Southwest
- Etonnez-moi!
- Advice on Taking Garmin Screenshots?
- A New Rockhounding Book
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