Posted on August 31, 2020Quick Nighttime Fluorescent Mineral Hunt View this post on Instagram Little cooler today so I hiked out to the Nancy Ann Mine with my heavy shortwave field lamp to do a nighttime fluorescent mineral hunt. Saw this rattler just in time to step back. Still close enough to get rattled at. #hiking#mining#inyocounty#flourescent #rocks#geology#mojavedesertA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Aug 30, 2020 at 10:43pm PDT — View this post on Instagram Further up the trail. #geology #roadtrip #rockhound #inyocounty #hiking#minerals#mining #prospecting#A post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Aug 30, 2020 at 10:51pm PDT — View this post on Instagram Glow sticks mark off important points. They’re not meant to illuminate but these from Home Depot are very bright. I came back with a headlamp, of course. #desert#mojave#mojavedesert#rocks #geology #minerals #inyocounty #hiking#exploreA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Aug 30, 2020 at 11:39pm PDT — View this post on Instagram Unedited bat footage. Fairly recent maps call this the Shaw Mine when in actuality there are a number of entrances and the name has changed from owner to owner. Open ground now that is in Wilderness status and only walking permitted. No bicycles, no handcarts, no machines of any kind. #nopahwilderness #roadtrip #geology#inyocounty #pahrump #mojavedesert #hikingA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Aug 30, 2020 at 11:47pm PDT — View this post on Instagram A few nice red pieces but nearly everything else is yellow calcite that fluoresces under SW and LW. The red material only fluoresces SW. You can see in the first few seconds that even my Dragonfly won’t light up this side of the rock but then SW gives a nice red. The other side glows the usual calcite yellow. #flourescent #hiking #mojavedesert#geology #geologyrocks #mining #minerals #inyocounty#nopahrangeA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Aug 31, 2020 at 12:00am PDT — View this post on Instagram I’m always hesitant about leaving my vehicle at night near a major road. I turned off my headlamp a quarter mile before the trailhead and walked with only moonlight in case something was waiting. No one at the vehicle but very loud music from another vehicle a hundred yards away out in the creosote, the first human activity I’ve encountered at this trailhead. I had my keys in hand and motored away in seconds. I’m sure those people were friendly but I wasn’t going to chance it at night and beyond cell phone range. My sat phone would need a few minutes to connect. I might not have had that time. #mohave #desert#hiking#explore#geology#geologyrocks#mining#history #inyocounty#A post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Aug 31, 2020 at 12:11am PDT — View this post on Instagram Making my way back. #geology #roadtrip #rockhound #hiking ##mining#nopahrange#inyocounty#explore#geology#desert#mojavedesertA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Aug 31, 2020 at 12:16am PDT — View this post on Instagram Unedited handheld iPhone video. SW. Properly photographing fluorescent minerals takes a tripod and hours of fiddling to get the colors correctly displaying what they actually show under a lamp. The blue rock shows the infamous blue bleed that every photographer fights against, it is a problem between camera settings and the lamps themselves. Getting every rock in a group to show correctly on your screen is a major project, a great deal done in post. Too much time in post! #ecplore#geology#flourescent #minerals#madness#desert#mojavedesert#inyocountyA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Aug 31, 2020 at 12:48am PDT
Posted on July 25, 2020In The North Nopah. Again. View this post on Instagram I walked the edges of the gully going up, walked in the gully going down. No sign of anything man made on the way up until I got to the top. Disturbed ground actually just bare, exposed limestone. What they did on top would have only taken a trail. Audio boosted on all of today’s videos, the good mike is packed away somewhere with the other stuff I am moving. #geology #roadtrip#geologyrocks#explore#pahrump #inyocounty#nopahrangewildernessA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Jul 24, 2020 at 3:57pm PDT — View this post on Instagram Working up the canyon. Setting my go back point. Or, I was. #geology #quartz #rockhound #hiking #geologyrocks #nopahwilderness#inyicounty#explore#nature#adventure#outsideA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Jul 24, 2020 at 5:05pm PDT — View this post on Instagram This was my stopping point until I saw higher ground. I bag all peaks. But it turned out to be a fairly wide, broad area of ground with interesting things all around. Next video. #geology #roadtrip #rockhound #hiking #rocks#geologistonboard #outdoors#nature#pahrump#inyocountyA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Jul 24, 2020 at 5:11pm PDT — View this post on Instagram Unknowingly at this point, I am probably a hundred feet or more above an old working of the Nancy Ann Mine. It has to be below my feet which I’ll get to in another video. Check out the lichen following cracks or fracture lines in these nearby rocks. #geology #geologyrocks #geologistonboard#nopah#pahrump#explore#hiking#mojave#desert#mojavedesert#rocksA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Jul 24, 2020 at 5:22pm PDT — View this post on Instagram These limestone hills may naturally contain many voids. These were big enough to sleep in. Absolutely no litter anywhere. What I found next was undoubtedly the opening to an air shaft for a mine below, probably well below. I’m unaware of any caves in these hills but entrances these days are not publicized except to a few in the spelunking community or whatever they call themselves. #geology #quartz #rockhound #hiking #explore#outdoors#nopahwilderness #pahrumpA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Jul 24, 2020 at 6:23pm PDT — View this post on Instagram Sorry this isn’t in portrait view. Above the shelters I heard a continuous noise on this fairly windless day. Did not have my external mike. Huge amount of bees around this opening. Constant wind noise which I usually hear from a mine with an unblocked opening somewhere. You tell me, air shaft for the mine or from a cave? People were definitely up here and though it doesn’t look like a man made opening, I’m thinking it could be little else. Could not feel any wind because of the bees preventing me from getting close but that has to be wind noise, coming or going. I wonder if there is moisture below and hence the bees. You tell me! #mines#geology#rocks#caves#limestone#exploring#tunnels#nopah#bees#desert#mojave#inyocounty#geologistonboard#geologyrocks#adventureA post shared by Tom Farley (@tgfarley) on Jul 24, 2020 at 6:51pm PDT
