| This is one activity that you can do most
anywhere except in State and National Parks.
However there is one park where you can. In fact it is called Rockhound
State Park and is in New
Mexico
This can be done for fun and for profit. Many rockhounders find that
it become somewhat expensive, what with the traveling to unusual places
and then storing the rock when they get back. This has prompted many to
sell the rocks in a shop or over the net and maybe even start turning them
into jewelry. Sometime it is a simple dongle cut and ground and then
tumbled or they may shape it into a cabochon and set it in a finding or
setting. Now they have progressed into the art of lapidary. From
that the step to full fledged jeweler is a large one but they are already
on the first few rung so many climb the rest of the way up and open up for
business and supplement the collection with stones cut in places such as
Holland and Asia. Now they are dealing in diamonds and don't have time
turn over rocks and lick a pretty stone to see what it would look like
polished.
The joy of rockhounding is in finding a stone that you can see
beauty in, or finding one that was missing from your collection, and
trading with your buddies. There are many rocks out there that have been
spit on or cracked with a hammer and discarded, but there are no bad days
rockhounding, just some days that are better than others. |
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