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The Agate Desert is a prairie located near White City, Oregon, 53 acres (21 ha) [1] of which is protected as the Agate Desert Preserve. [2] [3] The area is not in fact a desert as its name suggests; it is so named because of the abundance of agate, petrified wood, jasper, and other minerals found there. [4]
Oregon [59] [60] State Twin Minerals: Oregonite (2013) and Josephinite (2013) Thunderegg (1965) Oregon sunstone labradorite (1987) Pennsylvania [61] Rhode Island [62] Bowenite serpentine (1966) Cumberlandite (1966) South Carolina [63] Blue granite (1969) Amethyst (1969) South Dakota [64] [65] Rose quartz (1966) Fairburn agate (1966) and State ...
This brings rockhounds to the area every summer. The Bureau of Land Management and the Ochoco National Forest both have designated areas where rockhounds can search for agate, jasper, petrified wood, petrified moss, and dendrite. These rock collection sites are for personal use only; gathering rocks for commercial purposes is prohibited.
Near the Tri-Cities, rockhounding is popular along the Columbia River, Horse Heaven Hills, Saddle Mountains, Bickleton and the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park. Rockhounding on WA DNR-managed land
Richard L. Rice married Helen Hart in 1932 and the couple began rock collecting in 1938 after finding agates along the Oregon Coast. [1] [2] In 1952 the Rices built a new home north of Hillsboro on 30 acres (12 hectares) that would later house the museum. [3] The Rices founded a museum in 1953 to display their collections. [4]
Amateur geology or rock collecting (also referred to as rockhounding in the United States and Canada) is the non-professional study and hobby of collecting rocks and minerals or fossil specimens from the natural environment. [1] [2] In Australia, New Zealand and Cornwall, the amateur geologists call this activity fossicking. [3]
Thousands of hunters, fishers, boaters, sightseers and rockhounds are annual visitors to its streams, reservoirs and the Ochoco Mountains. The Prineville Chamber of Commerce provides access to over 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) of mining claims to rockhounds, who can dig for free agates, limb casts, jasper and thundereggs.
Washington state is a hotbed for minerals, gemstones, crystals and fossils, making the Evergreen state a popular site for rockhounding. Whether in an official group or going solo, rockhounding is ...