Heartland Gem Hunter

09/24/2025

Chris honors the LSA hunters. I'm going to make his HGH display awesome. More Kansas LSA's are going his way. Thank you Chris.

09/24/2025

I showed you the video of the pit operation in the last post. Now let's take a look at the gravel and cobble this pit produces.
Tons of igneous and metamorphic rock from the Colorado Rockies and MAYBE New Mexico. Feldspar and quartz is quite abundant as you would expect.
No rosebud agates. I find this quite intriguing. Why wouldn't there be any? IMO some geological changes occurred after the rock they are mining was deposited. River diversion over a couple million years seems probable.
Oh and the rock at the end? Basalt. Volcanics are what I'm looking for - amygdaloidal. Amygdaloidal basalt is a dark-colored volcanic rock, or basalt, characterized by internal, almond-shaped pockets called amygdules that are filled with secondary minerals like quartz, chalcedony, or zeolites. Perhaps the best chance for finding agate in host.
I know there are desirable stones from the Rockies that can be found in this pit cobble type. Rare finds, but they have to be in there. This is when Colorado and New Mexico rock hunters might be able to give some insight. Are any of you out there?

09/23/2025

One of our suppliers. Good video of their dredge operation.

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09/23/2025

Timing is everything. With harvest beginning, we've started to notice a couple fields that are ready to hunt. Picked fields as opposed to cut. This rain is going to reveal LSA's.

09/22/2025

"Take a friend to work day" this Friday. Hopefully we get a little rain so it washes off the rock.

09/22/2025

Harvest time. Not the best time to be out on the roads. If you are hunting low maintenance roads, show respect to the landowners. They got a lot of work to do and those tractors are big. Get out of their way. Park is far over as you can do not stay in the road. In many cases, it's better to park at a gravel road intersection and walk the low maintenance road from there.
Another huge safety Factor here! Stay out of the fields right now! Even if you have permission, you do not know exactly when they are harvesting. A combine can come over a hill and you not hear it until it's nearly right up on you. This is a good way to get unalived. Seems like that's the trendy word. But yeah. Combines will kill you. All you got to do is read the story about the kid that got dropped off in a Nebraska corn field last year (bird hunter), fell asleep, and that was game over. Be smart

09/22/2025

Wake up, Neighbors! 🤣 I decided to rework my big Moss nodule. Lots of little scratches and imperfections to remove the proper way - slower RPM.
Do-It-Yourself homemade polisher by our "machine expert, Jeffrey Snook. Slower RPM than an angle grinder. Much more safe. If you would like to build one of these, stay tuned. We're going to show you how to do it! 🙂

09/21/2025

Green Bay and the U.P. Pictures taken by my friend, Tim Berge.

09/21/2025

Have you hit the pit roads lately? We didn't spend much time here. It's a common hunt area, but we like to stop by once in a while.
BTW if you go into the pit area, you're on camera and the guy that lives on the east side of the pit is watching. He doesn't own the pit. He's just one of the haulers. The actual pit manager invites me in from time to time but I let him approach me. I don't try to get permission.

09/20/2025

Quick fix before new glasses. I'm missing out