I had a few days off, market was tanking so, road trip! A few days away from crypto!
I'm writing this to you from Delta, Utah, one of my favorite places to take a trip. It's kinda in the middle of nowhere for most people, but it's a gem & mineral collector's paradise. You can collect topaz, red beryl(one of the rarest gems on earth), tiffany stone, sunstones, garnets, obsidian, agates, geodes, fossils, and I just found out, bacon opal!! I'll be loading up on the bacon opal on the way home.
I arrived yesterday after about a 9 hour drive. One the way here I stopped to collect sunstones about 25 miles south of Delta. I had never been collecting there before so I made sure to include it on this trip.
Sunstones are a gem variety of feldspar. The best sunstones have a copper inclusion in them giving them a very interesting appearance. I was lucky to find a few of those, as well as some still in the matrix.
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Woke up today and spent the day hunting for topaz and red beryl at Topaz mountain. I am exhausted. Not only do you have to swing a sledge hammer and rock hammer all day, but you also have to hike up a mountain to get to the good collecting spots. It was worth it though. I got a ton of topaz as well as some great specimens.
I'm not sure what I will be collecting tomorrow. Probably more topaz, some gannets and obsidian. I'm just so tired I'm not sure I can swing my rock hammer anymore...
I'll leave you with a view from up on the mountain looking out over the desert and a Topaz mountain sunset!. Wish me luck tomorrow! Thanks for reading!
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