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Started Treasure Hunting
« on: December 14, 2015, 10:10:55 pm »
Having some dozing done on the 36 acres that i had logged, couldn't believe they got 72 marketable Walnut  logs, and several Huge Oaks. I found several round rocks, some golf ball size and some as big as a grapefruit? So i ask around and looked them up on the net. They think a meteorite hit the area (Weaubeau,Mo. Hickory and St. Clair, counties) 340 million years ago :o. These round rocks are only found in this area, in the whole World 8), there are 2 wet weather creeks that run through this property also. I have walked some of the creek beds and have found some arrow heads and some that look like they were used as knifes? I know this isn't Brr related, but while there sleeping i'm not, and wondered if any of you are rock hounds. ;D Jack
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« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2015, 10:48:38 pm »
Crazy Cool Find Jack! Some people just fall into it  ;)

Hubby says to take the rocks to a Gemologist. If they are thunder eggs or meteorite they could be worth some big bucks.

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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2015, 11:03:13 pm »
Very interesting!  I have seen some spherical stones sold in rock shops as coming from volcanos.  They are often hollow inside and lined with crystals.  Keep us in the loop as you gain enlightenment about these mystery rocks.  :-)
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« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2015, 11:12:53 pm »
Yes, they are quite beautiful, and some even have ancient water bubbles in them  :D
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« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2015, 11:27:19 pm »
Jen, usually what i fall in doesn't smell or looks to good ;D maybe this will be different. 8) Jack
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« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2015, 11:38:34 pm »
I have a hunch it will be different...  ;)
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« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2015, 01:04:20 am »
rock hound? naw, not me...........hmmm, lol....... :laugh:

i'm the one with rocks loaded in my luggage/carry on, and as far away as alaska, british columbia, won't mention how many times my luggage has been checked because of a rock or two stuffed in a hiking boot/shoe or wherever it fits (LOL)........and/or as big of a rock as i can get away with in the truck!

on our river, and on the shores of lake superior, i hunt for agates and artifacts, found some nice agates and artifacts......... seems i look at rocks just as much as i fish sometimes! lot's of artifacts from montana and wyoming too. some neat finds my great grandmother gave me on wyoming arrowheads.
besides the prized agates, lake superior gives up some interesting stuff, with shipwrecks and all. 
i hunt wherever i travel jack, never know what you might come up with.
i also have a collection of other artifacts, ranging from moccasin lasts, knives, hammers, arrowheads, spear heads, scrapers, grinding and milling stones, carvings, cannon balls, etc........
i have found some pretty cool stuff!
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Re: Started Treasure Hunting
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2015, 07:16:18 am »
"They think a meteorite hit the area (Weaubeau,Mo. Hickory and St. Clair, counties) 340 million years ago :o"

Just ask Iddee and see if he remembers that! ;D
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Re: Started Treasure Hunting
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2015, 07:45:23 am »
Quote from: Perry on December 15, 2015, 07:16:18 am
"They think a meteorite hit the area (Weaubeau,Mo. Hickory and St. Clair, counties) 340 million years ago :o"

Just ask Iddee and see if he remembers that! ;D

I'm older than Iddee, and I "resemble" that remark.  :)
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« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2015, 08:49:42 am »
Jack's old enough to remember, but he's been getting a bit forgetful in the last few hundred years.   :yes:   ;D

He's told me stories about when he and Methuselah played together as kids.
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« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2015, 09:44:07 am »
Very cool.....we went hunting for flat river rocks and all I got was bruised knees from falling. 
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« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2015, 10:31:39 am »
Hmmm, i remember reading that God had an iddee and took a rib and made Eve? I'm thinking maybe there was a misprint, it should have read, Wally and Eve ??? Also, Eve must have been a Democrat? :P That's how the word WAR got invented. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Jack
PS. Your turn Perry. ;D
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« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2015, 10:38:25 am »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Started Treasure Hunting
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2015, 01:24:27 pm »
 :laugh: Giving me a good laugh this morning guys  ;)

We have collected some cool mining artifacts, and could get into big trouble if 'they' new the artifacts were in our yard. We have returned alot of the heavier artifacts tho, they attract yellow jacket nesting. However, I have saved these, what I call "Miner's Balls"


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« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2015, 06:19:31 pm »
The big ones belong to the miners, the smaller ones belong to supervisors and management. ;D ;D Jack
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Re: Started Treasure Hunting
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2015, 06:57:06 pm »
Quote from: brooksbeefarm on December 15, 2015, 06:19:31 pm
The big ones belong to the miners, the smaller ones belong to supervisors and management. ;D ;D Jack

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2015, 10:35:18 pm »
Back when I had the airboat. My youngest son and I would run up and down the Arkansas river looking for arrow heads and other artifacts on sandbars.  When the river came up they would erode out of the bank and where the river slowed down over the bars the heavier rocks would deposit into that area,  We found several but our best find was this buffalo skull from back in the old days.  Odd thing is 99 percent of the time you found them at the north end of a sand bar upside down with the nose pointing south buried with only  the teeth or roof of mouth showing. Just as this one was found  This one is one of the better ever found in this area and the son has turned down decent money for it.  We had to soak it in water and Elmer glue to preserve it after we got it out of the wet sandbar, Can you believe these 2 boys grew up to be marines



 


The son on the left is the one who found it.  Think he was 3 or 4 at the time
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« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2015, 12:20:41 am »
Interesting story Riverrat.  Reminds me of my dad telling about buffalo skulls on their prairie homestead in SE Wyoming when he was a kid in the 1920's.  Wild horses too.  Cheyenne, Wyoming and Fort Warren housed the biggest military post in the West through the late 1800's.  The cavalry rode horses back then and people close to Fort Warren would catch wild horses, 'break' them and sell them to the U.S. Army.  Thanks for the reminder.  :-)

Jack, can you post a picture of those rocks in question?
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« Reply #18 on: December 16, 2015, 12:33:31 am »
Lburou, not yet but i'm going to work on it. I've got several things (not just arrowheads and rocks) that i would like to post. Seems like every time i start to do something i get side tracked, then when i come to the house i'm to tired to try to learn how to do something on the computer.I have even fell asleep and hit my head on the desk top a few times. ;D Jack
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Re: Started Treasure Hunting
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2015, 12:52:23 am »
Rounded Rocks

One of my first encounters with these was with man-made. Roughly rounded and also some naturally water worn about the size of large hens eggs. They were on a dig across the rampart of a Roman fort. The suggestion was that they were ammunition for hand slings.    Did the Native Americans use slings ?

Another rounded stone. A bit bigger. This came from the foot of a pre-1500 castle wall. This could be the ball from an early small cannon ...... breech loading peterraro (?).

There is a local tradition of gathering rounded stones from streams and rivers. At farms and the like these were bedded closely together to make hard wearing floors for yards and inside buildings.

Jen .... did the miners use the metal spheres for ore crushing ?
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