Lake Superior agate season has begun

[EricTheCat]

Lake Superior agate season has begun and I finally got around to taking some pics of some of my finds and I thought I would share.





Found near the road by my house, this next one was somewhat covered in road tar and sand. I noticed rather accidentally that warm mineral oil was the perfect thing to loosen up the tar while giving the agate my usual mineral oil treatment. I was able to clean it up quite a bit that way.



Here is my happiest agate of 2015 so far.


A piece of banded flint just to mix things up bit.


Happy hunting!

 

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[PaDirtDigger]

I have heard of these before, but didn't realize the size... What do you do with them? Tumble? Very nice looking stuff...

 

[BurntBear]

 

[DDancer]

Looks like your off to a good start Eric

 

[EricTheCat]

PaDirtDigger,
Some I tumble and some I cut/grind/polish but most I leave as-is. When they look really nice naturally I have a hard time changing them.

lol@BurntBear, agates are delicious! Better go find more before the nothing comes.

 

[worldtalker]

My Dad knew a guy back in the middle 60's that used to dive for those agates.


GOD Bless

Chris

 

[PaDirtDigger]

Very cool... Maybe fill old mason jars with them like marbles... :-)

 

[EricTheCat]

Thanks everyone. Here are a few more. These are from today's hunt:

 

[yakker]

Those are just beautiful! I need to make a road trip one day...

 

[Las Vegas Bob]

Nice finds thanks for sharing.

 

[BurntBear]

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Those are excellent specimens, love em; especially this one!