Rock Hunting in Nordrhein-Westfalen.... you have to love it...!!
this weekend it was cold but i had to go out... looking for and most of the time... finding Agates...
if i feel restless i go rock hunting in the area of the lower Rhine, near Gogh, Nordrhein westfalen, Germany
there are a lot of quarries and i thought it was a good day for quarry Welbers, near Wemb, very close to airport Weze.
it is a good place for hunting agates and fossils, petrified wood and maybe some crystal or Amethist. that is rare but it's there and i was very lucky...
the quarry there is an open sand pit.
they have a small lake, artificial and there is a lot to do...
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not much other rockhunters so that is good for me... and of course it is forbidden to go there so that is just the place i want to be....
hours of walking over piles of rock.... they quarry for sand... the rock is their garbage.
i go out for rockhunting and collecting other stuff all my life, i am my own boss and, i can go where i want and take a lot of stone with me home...happy to have a car....!!! and i take home everything.... jasper for in the garden and the rest goes into my house, hahahaha... it is loaded with hundreds of finds from the last years....!
and this is just a small portion of my collection....
today i was very lucky and i will show you some of the best finds, hope you enjoy this read and maybe in the future you out there reading this are going for rock hunting yourself....
and the best find of the day........!!! a very small but beautiful agate... amazing find...!!
Stunning! Rockhounds unite! Help me populate the #rockhound tag with your amazing finds! I am jealous! - I manually curate rockhound posts with this account! My main account is @bitfiend and I am a rockhound! Have a great day!
hi... thanks for the support, i go rockhunting every two weeks so there will be more posts, also on stone grinding and pollishing.... i will use the #rockhound tag....
you have a great day too...!!
Awesome I look forward to your finds! Your display case is awesome, it makes mine look terrible (I just put'em in buckets on a shelf). I don't have any quite likes yours but I've never gone to a quarry or gravel pit for rockhounding before but I really want to this year. It's mostly on the beaches for me.
on the beaches you can find a lot, also on the banks of rivers...... i do not know where you live so for that matter i cannot tell you where to look....
i think resteeming posts from other rockhounds on @rockhounds is what i would do, if i were you...
I was thinking of doing just that as I wrote my response to you! Thanks for reminding me -- I got called away from my computer and spaced it. I've resteemed your post to my blog as well!
There are a lot of places that me and my friends go, railroad tracks and trails too. I'm in Superior, WI and I live just 20 minutes away from my favorite spot on the shores of lake superior.
Never occurred to me to wander through the quarries in Germany to find some nice specimen. I only made my way to the beaches of the Baltic Sea to find some specimen that the glaciers have brought down to us from Scandinavia. Which is also a lot of fun :)
I should do some research, if there are some nice places in the north.
hi sooflauschig, if you want to find agates and stuff like that... you have to be on the west side of the Rhine and beneath the point where it flows into the Netherlands, all the agates are coming from the Idar Oberstein region, and where washed downstream in rivers eons ago.... in fact it was river the Niers, now a small stream but it was huge in that time.... 4 to 10 km wide... where i find the agates.... most of them sit at a depth of 10 to 30 meters in sand quarries and pulled up by the sucking machines, from there they go onto piles of stones till they are crushed for split ( broken stone for bedding on new roads....) left of the Rhine you will find more fossils from mammoth ancient horse and pot remains and stuff like that.... if you go rockhunting.... i wish you a good and happy hunting....!!
Thank you very much for all the indormation. I eill keep it in mind :)
more than welcom..
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Cool stuff. The house where I grew up seems to have been underwater ages ago. No gemstones, but we used to dig on the top of a hill and find unlimited fossils just a few feet below in the dirt. I have countless ones, but most have been lost over time in the basement or who knows. One day, I'll go back out there and see what I can find when it's warmer and I have more than a kid's shovel and a bucket.
i love fossil banks, i go to holderbank in Switzerland for fossils, or to France, there are loads of places in europe where fossils are... where i live we find mammoth teeth, whooly rhino bone and sea lily and maybe a goniatite, not many fossils survived, petrified wood we also have a lot...
but most of the finds are agates