Agate Hunting on the Oregon Coast - Agates of the Oregon Coast

Agate Hunting the Oregon Coast
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RARE Watercolor Jasper, Malheur County, Oregon - Rockhounding Oregon

Watercolor Jasper, first located in the spring of 2012 and later mined in a small batch in 2013 by the Crew at Rock Your World. Watercolor Jasper is found high in the hills above Juntura, Oregon, we are still attempting to locate the source of this gorgeous and hard material.

Large Chunk of Petrified Wood from Gleneden Beach, Lincoln County, Oregon - Rockhounding the Oregon Coast

This is a whopper of a chunk of petrified wood from Gleneden Beach, Lincoln County, OR. Gleneden Beach, just south of Lincoln City, OR is a PRIME location to find Oregon Beach Agates, Jasper, Petrified wood and other gemstones including grossular garnet and the rare saginite agate. Click on the picture to visit our Facebook with loads of Oregon Agate Hunting pictures and trip reports!

Gary Green Jasper a.k.a. Larsonite – Green Petrified Bogwood from near McDermitt on the Oregon/Nevada Border - Rockhounding Oregon

Called Gary Green Jasper, Larsonite or McDermitt Green Jasper, depending on who you ask, is a petrified bogwood or swamp bog, where the wood, canes and cattails and creatures living in the bog were all petrified in a Miocene age volcanic event between 11 million and 14 million years ago, a snapshot in time of the algae, fallen trees, vegetation, swamp critters and other swampy things that were happening when this bog was covered by falling ash.

The teal to lime green color of the material is caused by a combination of iron, aluminium, potassium, sodium and calcium. 

The picture above was from a fresh slabbed piece of Gary Green Jasper. What an amazing piece of green petrified wood!