OreRockOn Oregon Rockhounds Online
The FIRST, the BIGGEST, and the BEST site on the Web for getting Oregon Rockhounding Information and
OreRockOn was founded in 1995 as a website to provide information about rockhounding hobby in the Pacific Northwest USA, mainly Oregon. We produce a DVD that has almost 2,500 sites to go rockhounding in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and northern California. We also sell lapidary rocks, obsidian & needles, slabs, polished specimens, fossils, and cabochons from the Pacific NW and elsewhere.
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23/07/2023
Yup.
11/01/2023
Q: Did the dinosaurs go extinct because an asteroid strike? Nope. Because they liked pineapples on pizza? YES! They deserved it!
07/01/2023
Hmmm I wonder how many billions an opal from Mars would cost :) https://www.livescience.com/mars-opal-gemstone-crater?fbclid=IwAR3xlcrv87pPTdXlPIG_OHNsN4F68ylK_6KoPhxslfpPFoJYCbA5K_dY4Qo
Mars crater is 'chock-full' of opal gemstones, hinting at widespread water and possible microbial life Mysterious "halos" of rock surrounding cracks in a Martian crater may be made of water-rich opal gemstones, a new study suggests.
31/12/2022
Well it's finally done, an update to my Pacific Northwest Rockhounding guide is ready to go! In the past 2 years I've been saving up new locations and fully integrating the sites and waypoints from the 11(!) rockhounding guides in the OR WA ID MT and northern CA. There is so much info you have to go to the website to read it all! Meanwhile here's some pretty pictures to get your attention. All the info is at http://orerockon.com/CD.htm
19/02/2022
But it did! No really it did!
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21/10/2021
So true!
18/10/2021
Well of course their mothers would be interested in driveway gravel 😂
OK now this is INSANE!
02/06/2021
OK now this is INSANE!
https://petapixel.com/2021/06/01/watch-in-first-person-as-a-dji-drone-is-swallowed-by-a-volcano/
Watch in First-Person as a DJI Drone is Swallowed by a Volcano See its final moments in first-person view.
07/04/2021
4 Disk Roy's Rock Shop vertical cabochon machine for $675 price reduced to $500!!!
This is an ingenious machine manufactured by a long gone Salem, Oregon rock shop. They made these and other machines in multiple configurations, I have seen a trim saw made with many of the same parts! I know of a few lapidaries that use this machine exclusively for making cabochons, some for decades. It has 2 disks for silicon carbide or diamond sanding disks in the front that stick onto the pads with disk feathering or other contact cement, and 2 canvas pad disks in the back for diamond paste. Not shown are 2 other grit diamond disks and a felt polishing disk. I'll throw in all the goodies that came with it, contact cement, polishing powder, diamond paste, and a bunch more supplies. The front side is wet (the pump sits in the reservoir as in the photo) and you can control the amount of water to each disk with the valves. The back side for diamond paste and polishing is dry, you use diamond extender spray to keep the paste from drying out and a spray bottle for the polishing pad. There was nothing to be adjusted or repaired except the motor was a little tired. I replaced it with a new variable speed motor up to 10,000 RPM motor (you will never need to run it at full speed). I added a switched outlet so the pump and motor are controlled separately.
Pickup here Oregon City, OR or I can meet you within an hour driving distance of the Portland area
18/03/2021
14/03/2021
Sounds like a plan 😁
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