Leave the mods alone and get outdoors?Pics from your walk ?

[mackem 30,271]

Went to a mineral and rock show,miners from Canada and the states mainly but a few international,got chatting to an old guy in his 80's who lived way up north as a kid and tried prospecting,lived on shot game and fish and found a nugget of gold the size of a thimble while panning a stream,I love stories like that.

Also met an old first nations bloke exhibiting arrow heads finds.

[Franks dad 2,541]

13 minutes ago, mackem said:

Went to a mineral and rock show,miners from Canada and the states mainly but a few international,got chatting to an old guy in his 80's who lived way up north as a kid and tried prospecting,lived on shot game and fish and found a nugget of gold the size of a thimble while panning a stream,I love stories like that.

Also met an old first nations bloke exhibiting arrow heads finds.

Amazing stuff …I love it,especially the fish … I want one ! 

[Franks dad 2,541]

Few miles with the dog mostly on lead , farmers got new signs up saying he doesn’t want to but he will shoot loose dogs on his land …. Which is fair enough.

And he was out and about . 

[mackem 30,271]

4 minutes ago, Franks dad said:

Amazing stuff …I love it,especially the fish … I want one ! 

I can tell you a quarry in the UK you can find perfect specimens,I found one myself as a kid,Quarrington quarry in county durham,lots of pristine specimens in the marl,theres a market near there or there was,that had a stall holder used to sell fossils from the quarry.

Quarrington Quarry – Tarmac

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[Franks dad 2,541]

9 minutes ago, mackem said:

I can tell you a quarry in the UK you can find perfect specimens,I found one myself as a kid,Quarrington quarry in county durham,lots of pristine specimens in the marl,theres a market near there or there was,that had a stall holder used to sell fossils from the quarry.

 

Quarrington Quarry – Tarmac

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Wonder if anyone on here from Durham has a pick axe and wants to make FD’s Xmas

[mackem 30,271]

16 minutes ago, Franks dad said:

Wonder if anyone on here from Durham has a pick axe and wants to make FD’s Xmas

If I was still up there i would have got you one,lump hammer and chisel and check the quarry floor,was never difficult,I am going to a rock wall in Quebec later,if I see owt (but probably won't sadly) i will pick it up.

[WataWalloper 4,000]

1 hour ago, mackem said:

Went to a mineral and rock show,miners from Canada and the states mainly but a few international,got chatting to an old guy in his 80's who lived way up north as a kid and tried prospecting,lived on shot game and fish and found a nugget of gold the size of a thimble while panning a stream,I love stories like that.

Also met an old first nations bloke exhibiting arrow heads finds.

Don’t know if you mentioned it before but eve stumble across any the displays from that place the boneyard in Alaska? Not even sure if he does display his stuff 

[mackem 30,271]

6 minutes ago, WataWalloper said:

Don’t know if you mentioned it before but eve stumble across any the displays from that place the boneyard in Alaska? Not even sure if he does display his stuff 

Never seen a display,went to other displays of mammoth and the worlds largest collection of dire wolf skeletons in the  california tar pits earlier this year.If the boneyard ever do a display i would love to visit.

[WataWalloper 4,000]

Just now, mackem said:

Never seen a display,went to other displays of mammoth and the worlds largest collection of dire wolf skeletons in the  california tar pits earlier this year.If the boneyard ever do a display i would love to visit.

I watched a thing about them tar pits a whilst back, crazy place

I never really got the whole dinosaur an extinct animal fascination tbh there’s more than enough alive to keep us fascinated haha but the few times iv saw that big dude from the boneyard on a podcast iv been glued to. Puzzling how he found so many remains an then add in all the shenanigans with the museums an stuff it’s a mad case, would love to go have a proper look about, even if it did all jist look like ole bones to me haha

[WataWalloper 4,000]

Nowt special going on here today, bit a yard work an hounds are out local so iv kept a eye on them, out now getting last coulke hours a daylight with them