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Have you found any volcanic glass in the areas around you? I have been hunting minerals for a couple of years now, I’m located North of the Brazos River above Possum Kingdom Lake. I normally don’t go out on the river until we have heavy rains giving the river time to move the rocks I seek. There is so much petrified wood that I have about six five gallon buckets of assorted sizes but all in some form of the obvious variety of petrified wood. I have this drive in me to recover agates in all sizes and form, I have only found one nugget of gold in my six years of being on the Brazos River, and yes I did find it in a backcut cove with the black sand. The best way I have found to clean up the river rocks is by using a excellent product you can get at your local Ace Hardware store, it is: 30% vinegar,(this is used to kill weeds, and clean rust from tools). You can get stronger vinegar but you will have to purchase it on line from Amazon, because of the Texas agriculture regulations, saying you have to have a chemical license before you can buy it. This product should not be used by anyone under 18 years old, above 30% it will burn a hole in your skin and hurt for a couple of days, caution is needed. But it does an excellent job cleaning off the Minerals out of the river basin. Did you know that there is a three tier plato before the farmers land begins. Which starts at the center of the river, the Game wardens keep them in check for us. I too have travelled the upper basin in my places and with my several kayaks, I will take along a extra kayak just for the minerals and petrified wood as I have found many large parts of a the trunk and have had to pass them up, mostly because of the weight. But I do mark the location with a pin drop, as I might return to retrieve it. By the way I am an old guy who has retired and now just travel to anyplace on the Brazos River. At some point this year I will be going to check out the Colorado River in Texas. Hope to see you there, but really you should get a small kayak for your rockhounding adventures, arrow heads will become abundant when you can see them at water level stuck in the mud just above the water line. I think arrow heads are great and I have given away hundreds of them to people who are just walking along the edges of the river. Years ago I had a massive collection of fossils and arrowheads and spear points, pottery from the past.

I am a fossil collector living in southwest Texas. I have some unusual bivalves ( I would say clams, oysters.) and a large gastropod snail. I can't identify them through either the Internet or books, or having taken photos and posting on Facebook rockhounding groups. I am trying to organize my collection and label everything by at least genus, if not species. I found a geological map of the area I found them in, it says Quartenary, but the pieces just seem so much older - and resemble similar species I found on the Internet from the Cretaceous. What is the best way to identify pieces? The local museum and college doesn't help - unless it is a significant vertebrate find.

I'm watching some of your videos and I just wanted to mention a channel to you that you've probably already seen but just in case here it is he's got some amazing fossilized crabs.. Mamlambo Fossils

What happened with your posts keep the channel going love the fossil hunting

Very nice

Very good

ILIKE IT ! I have collected for yesrs on the upper Brazos near Glen Rose , Tx. I have alot of petrified wood , some indian artifacts/tools and a very few agates from that river .

It is a true story. Why would I make it up?

Do you sell the cat eye marbles?... I'm really passionate of those marbles I would be happy to have them

Does the dentist know you got his tools?

Wadders

What formation? What location?

I’m going to use my silicone gloves I got from the kitchen store thick water proof and tough

My hubby told me once that east texas has opalized petrified wood he was from up near the red river I think he said that was where he use to pick it up as a child

From one old Girl Scout get your boot get your pack get your tools and gloves prepare for success time is time be prepared

Great stuff, but you should consider a kayak. There are far more shells along the banks of the river than were you are looking. They are just as easy to get out of the river banks as you are trying to get out of the dry river islands. You can get a new kayak at the end of every season. People buy them in the Spring and find out they have no place for them during the winter months and thus sell them for a fraction of the original cost, just wanting to get out from under trying to find somewhere to store it. Three years ago I gave kayaking lessons and trips down the Brazos River, I had purchased 13-16 assorted kayaks, took a old,’bull hauler trailer and fixed it up to haul all 15 of them to a designated place to launch from. We ALWAYS, paddled up river so that everyone could get back to their vehicles, without getting lost. Some only came to paddle and not looking for Minerals and fossils, while others would stay look and find both.

As also I am a Rockhounder with fossils in the mix. You asked about the piece of petrified wood, what you have is a mimic of the real petrified wood. Meaning after the real petrified wood vacated the tree, sand replaced it filling the void. Thus over thousands of years the sand was forced inside the void. Eventually the water would push it out of the mold and now you have a mimic of the voided part of the tree. I learned this from a game warden and a property owner who was trying to have me arrested as I was standing in the water in the estuary of the river. Never got that ticket as I had never stepped out of the river. Property owner was schooled on the legality of his un-educated understanding of the tiers in the land on the sides of the river.

Thank you! 😊

i will buy that almandite garnet from you 😅

that please hold music triggered a ptsd i didnt know i had lol

How’s it growing, would like to see it now.

That was over 40 years ago, and I was out hunting for Christmas foliage and berries When I got stuck in the quicksand. Like you I try to be careful where I step. I was alone in the woods when it happened. Thank goodness I was young and strong enough to literally pull my self out by my arms, clawing, reaching for anything that was stable. It took a long time but God gave me the strength and I am here today to tell the story. My most loved and comfortable boots didn’t make it though

Years ago I got stuck in quicksand. I thought I was going to die there. It took a long, long time and many hours to get out finally by the grace of God I was able to crawl out, but my boots stay deep in the quicksand I was deep in the woods and it was freezing cold. I wonder if my boots have turned to fossils ha ha

The crabs look like they are a bit of a challange...nice finds, not a lot of places you can find crabs in the UK...

I think the ball bearings were used as marbles i think they called them steelies.

Can you tell me where this is in Fort Bend county? I’m trying to take my son to go look at rocks.

Just awesome fines. Thank you for sharing.

look uo fossil coral' Tabulata'. Look up fossil worm tubes. This is a sea deposit so these animals would have lived there. So neat to find crab concretions. Maybe a way to stabilize them with polyester granules dissolved in acetone can harden them them use a airdent air braid and blow the matrix clean off the crabs. Good Luck

A compact disc player. How quaint.

MARBLES ARE SO AWESOME

Thank you for the honest remarks on Temu -mine mirrors that exactly!

Brilliant video 😊

Halo

Thank you!!!

NICE, I heard a news story of the river so low they found new dino tracks south of ft worth at a museum there,...LUCK , Mike

Perpetual care cemeteries are regulated by the Texas Department of Banking. Anyone can own a cemetery but the plots belong to the family of the interred. If there is no family, the plot belongs to the state of Texas.

I like the wind chimes in the background......😊

I was there in 2008 or abouts. Actually I think my avatar is from that visit.

Awesome! The shells look close to the fauna exposed at Whiskey Bridge.

Sooooooooooooo beautiful!!!!!!!

Enjoyed your humor, you look adventurous 😊

Hardened mud might be stramatelite

Those are awesome!!! Fossilized sea life! Wanna trade? I have 350 million year old clams crinoids coral and shell

Selenite crystals are supposed to be good for your Chakra. There are also supposed to be able to cleanse other crystals. I believe you noticed there are layers in the crystals. If you will freeze them for a bit then put them in hot water (like in your sink) you may be able to split them apart at the layers. I’ve been to that mine several times. You are so right about how tiring it is to carry a bucket full from the mine to your car. Lol

those little blobs might be sea urchin things

Beautiful knobs 😮

Those are gorgeous!

I think the globular things are a type of sponge.

So sad you are leaving Texas. I will be visiting a friend for the first time in September