A little piece of petrified wood

[EricTheCat]

Found this little piece in a field today. Thought I would share. I like how a lot of the petrified wood I find here has a very natural wood color to it. I had to tap this one on a rock before I was convinced it was petrified.







Happy hunting,
Eric

 

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[Hot diggity]

That's cool. Where there's trees, there's resin. Keep an eye out for amber! That stuff is amazing if it has any little prehistoric goodies in it!

 

[EricTheCat]

It would be neat to find some amber, especially with critters. Petrified wood is pretty rare here though.

I do have a small piece of amber with some kind of gnat in it that I purchased at a rock shop in Arizona.

 

[EricTheCat]

The same field turned up another piece of petrified wood last Friday.

 

[Hot diggity]

That amber is amazing! I've heard amber is pretty pricey & there has got to be a steep premium for trapped plants & creatures. Then again I've never been to a rock shop. May I ask how much'ish something like that goes for typically? It's OK if u don't remember. I've just never really seen it for sale.

 

[EricTheCat]

That little piece of amber with the bug is probably about 3/4 of an inch long. It was close to 10 years ago and I want to say was somewhere around $30.

I am hoping to make it up to a rock shop in the next few weeks. I will try to remember to look at their amber. Rock shops are a dangerous place for someone like me because everything seems so much less expensive than I would ever let it go for if I found it. Luckily I am also very frugal.

 

[Hot diggity]

Holy dung!!! That's way less than I would have expected! I agree 100%. That would be a dangerous place for me too! I would NEVER sell that for anywhere close to that! Very great find & u didn't even get dirty. HH