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Ray Hill - Rockhound Extraordinaire

Ray Hill has been a Rockhound for over 25 years. For the past 15 years Ray has been going to many collecting sites, mostly in the Southeast United States, collecting, taking photos, and writing short articles about these collecting sites and also about his Adventures in rock collecting. Now, Ray has placed all of his writing in his new book ADVENTURES IN ROCK COLLECTING.

Now, through this site only, you can have access to all of these writings for only $12.00. All of the articles, stories, collecting site information is here.

• The Rock Collector's tools kit
• Safety guidelines while rock hunting
• Measuring the diameter of a sphere
• Where do you find rocks, minerals, and fossils?
• Read Ray's thoughts on business and marketing
• Animal dung turning to stone
• Ray builds big tumbler
• Cleaning algae, mold, fungus, mildew from your rocks
• It's not a collection until it's organized!
• Ray moves into his new Library & Rock Museum
• Tumble polishing stones
• So your child likes rocks!
• Cracking Geodes open (without destroying them!)
• Ray's Stone inlay Woodworking project.
• Ray's Creates a new Riker frame wall display.
• Ray's Plan to "Get Rid of Those BUCKETS!!!"
• Ray's ideas for an inexpensive, easy to build storage rack system.

Collecting sites:

• Collecting Quartz Crystals at Diamond Hill Mine, Antreville, SC
• Collecting Rose Quartz at the Hogg Mine, LaGrange, GA
• Collecting Minerals at Graves Mountain, GA
• Collecting Fossils at Floyd County, GA
• Collecting Banded Agate, Chert and Drusy Quartz, Summerville, GA
• Collecting Marine Fossils at Dalton, GA
• Collecting Red Jasper, Chert, And Smoky Drusy Quartz At Ringgold, GA
• Rock Collecting trip to Lumpkin, Georgia
• Collecting Marine Fossils, Fort Payne, Alabama
• Collecting Marine Fossils, Clinchfield, Georgia
• Collecting Marine Fossils near Huntsville, Alabama
• Collecting Goethite and Fossils near Preston, Georgia
• Collecting Geodes, Quartz Nodules, Septarian Nodules and Agate near Payson,Arizona. NEW!
• Collecting Giant Quartz Crystals near Carlsbad New Mexico
• Collecting Savannah River Agate at Girard, GA
• Collecting Quartz Crystals at Mt. Ida, Arkansas
• Collecting at camp verde salt mines, Verde Valley, Arizona

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