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Adventures In Gold And Rock Hounding

We just met Two Gentlemen at their rock shop, when we heard the name of their Mine, and it happened to be the same as our last name we wanted to go.

But for the locals it was to cold, temps in the 40's. We had just left 25 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, this was a heat wave to us.

The one gentleman was famous, but we didn't know it at the time, his nickname was the Geode Kid, he even had a museum in the town of Deming, New Mexico.

It is filled with many beautiful geodes, countless sizes and colors. All very pretty inside, it took many hours of work to find that many Geodes. Plus all the time to cut everyone, then setup the displays, worth the time to stop and visit.

So after we left their Rock Shop we had to find a place where we could go and find our own Geodes. First stop was the Rock Hound State Park headquarters, we asked if there was a place where we could find Geodes.

The first answer was to climb up the mountain to an area where there was a patch of white material all around. My wife of 37 years said she could not climb up that far, bad hips, knee.

We were then informed if we had a four wheel drive with us, we could drive around, on a rough and steep trail, a four wheeler trail, to the back side of the mountain and find some pretty good geodes.

So we made our camp with the RV, and we were off, it was slow going, as it was very rough and steep. The mountain top is used for TV and cell phone towers because it's so tall.

There were many dry washes to explore on the way, and we found several interesting rocks, before we made it to the Geodes.

The Geodes we found we not as nice as the one's the Geode Kid had in his Rock Shop, they were great to us because we found them on our own. It was hard to extract them, the hard rock all around them made it difficult to save them all in perfect condition.

All in all it was a very good day in Deming, New Mexico at the Rock Hound State Park, by the way the camping rates are very reasonable, and you don't have to purchase a State Park permit, like you would have to in Minnesota.

The next day my wife got out a book of where we could go to collect different minerals, and a type of Agate, not Lake Superior Agate like we have in Minnesota.

After what seemed to be half the day, not really, we finally found the place we were looking for, or at least we think we did. We looked for quite some time before my wife squealed with excitement, for she had one of the elusive Agates in her hands.

Very pretty it was the color of a Dreamsicle, or a transparent orange, and it was very nice size. Well worth the effort to find something so rare.

We went a little farther down the road only to find an old abandoned mine, Hummm it said to my self, I wonder what treasures could be found there?

I had to stop and take a look around, and besides it was a great place to go off road with the Geo. After a bit of exploring we found the main mine shaft, it had been filled in back in the nineteen forties, so it looked safe.

I just had to get a closer look, there just might be a treasure or two laying about. My wife said don't go near that old mine you might fall in, but curiosity got the best of me, and when I went over to the mine to look inside there was a vein of fluorite.

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