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
