ROCKHOUNDS - My Personal Crystal Stash Video & Written Story of My 1st Gem Find in 1989
elamental
Published: 29 Feb 2024 βΊ Updated: 29 Feb 2024
ROCKHOUNDS - My Personal Crystal Stash Video & Written Story of My 1st Gem Find in 1989
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The stones, crystals, minerals, and fossils you see before you in this video (above) were collected from my travels through the course of my entire life. I even include the first stone I was ever gifted (by my father when I was 4 years old - a mineral actually) - a fist sized piece of pyrite he bought me at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C (pictured below).
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On the note of childhood ground scores -
This video also displays 1/2 of a perfectly cut blue-agate thunder egg that I FOUND in a sandbar in a small creek, behind the upper softball field in Ben Lomond Park in Manassas, Virginia (near what is now known as Splash Down Water Park).
This is her!
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I found this stone during one of my Dad's church softball games. It was 1989, and I was 4 years old. Usually many other kids were there to get into mischief with, but this week I was the only one... so I sat with nature, and didn't notice the geode until I kneeled down right next to it in the sandbar that (at the time) existed right in the middle of that creek.
It was an exciting experience for a 4 year old child.. but even then, I checked to make sure no one else was on the creek, because it was OBVIOUSLY left there. I may never know if it was left by accident or not, and may never see the other half of the stone... but man, I wish I could find it.
My Dad didn't believe that I found it when I showed it to him, but its not like he had an explanation of where it came from either π€·π€£ - I still have it to this day - long lost counterparts... LMK if you have the other half!!
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