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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]
Fossicking can be done in remote locations with no facilities, or can be a part of a guided tour. Several small businesses in Australia have set up for the purpose of introducing new people to the activity or providing facilities for fossickers near the areas being searched.
Within Japan recreational gold fossicking can be carried out in Hokkaido, Yamanashi and Michinoku. [4] Within Hokkaido, placer gold can be found in the Usotan River, the Peichian River, the Yūbari River, and the Rekifune River. [5] The traditional gold pan used in Japan is a rectangular concave shaped pan called the Yuri-ita (揺り板). [6]
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It is also known as fossicking. Traditionally prospecting relied on direct observation of mineralization in rock outcrops or in sediments. Modern prospecting also includes the use of geologic, geophysical, and geochemical tools to search for anomalies which can narrow the search area. Once an anomaly has been identified and interpreted to be a ...
Fossil collecting (sometimes, in a non-scientific sense, fossil hunting) is the collection of the fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils as amateurs.
The Vermont championship (about one month after Pennsylvania) on the shore of Lake Paran, North of Bennington; and The Great Southern championship in Arkansas (Labor Day weekend). Former world champion Coleman-McGhee founded the North American Stone Skipping Association (NASSA) in 1989 in Driftwood, Texas .
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