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03-16-2024, 08:02 AM
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Rock collecting area suggestions
I am developing a rock garden and searching for colorful and unique looking rocks. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where might be a good area to look.
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03-16-2024, 08:13 AM
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Depending where you are. Down south I drive around farmland, and look for rock piles. Ask the land owner. They usually say fill your truck twice. Take the wife along they will understand.
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03-16-2024, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by LeroyvdH
Depending where you are. Down south I drive around farmland, and look for rock piles. Ask the land owner. They usually say fill your truck twice. Take the wife along they will understand.
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Nicest looking rocks are roughly east of a line connecting Edmonton and Calgary. That's where the two major glaciers met during the last ice age, they've come from the Canadian Shield , well rounded and some very colorful.
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03-16-2024, 11:31 AM
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Facebook has a group of alberta rock collectors, not sure what it is called
see their posts every once in,a while, will look for what it is called
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03-16-2024, 01:55 PM
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Limestone from K country can be unique also. Lots fall alongside the road. Just park carefully.
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03-16-2024, 04:15 PM
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Facebook has a group of alberta rock collectors, not sure what it is called
see their posts every once in,a while, will look for what it is called
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Alberta Rock Hounds, I'm a member.
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03-16-2024, 04:23 PM
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Northern Alberta rock hounds
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03-16-2024, 06:19 PM
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Limestone from K country can be unique also. Lots fall alongside the road. Just park carefully.
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They won't even let you pick up the deadwood there. 
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03-16-2024, 07:22 PM
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I’d like to get into rock collecting but don’t know where to start
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03-16-2024, 09:27 PM
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I’d like to get into rock collecting but don’t know where to start
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Look around your feet. There's some very interesting stuff not far away, picked this up on the south side of Glenmore Reservoir near where Heritage Park is now, when I was a kid. That leaf is close to 30 cm. long
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03-16-2024, 09:37 PM
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I've always wanted to grab some sheets of shale on the side of the highway on the way to BC to do something with. If you're even allowed to?
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03-17-2024, 08:59 AM
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Quote:
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Look around your feet. There's some very interesting stuff not far away, picked this up on the south side of Glenmore Reservoir near where Heritage Park is now, when I was a kid. That leaf is close to 30 cm. long
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was it petrified before you found it? 
I found this piece of sandstone with leaves on both sides at the top end of Bowness park before I left the city maybe from the same period?
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03-17-2024, 10:02 AM
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You can look around the edges of the new 'lakes' that have been made for irrigation. Often times the erosion exposes a lot of interesting rocks.
The farm rock piles is a good place to look. I have a miniature scale model of the great wall of China going from raking and picking 80 acres.
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03-17-2024, 10:56 AM
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was it petrified before you found it?
I found this piece of sandstone with leaves on both sides at the top end of Bowness park before I left the city maybe from the same period? |
Probably, we tend to think of Alberta spending a lot of time underwater, creating oil in the process, but there must have been some major forests at one time as well. My guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paskapoo_Formation
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03-17-2024, 10:45 PM
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Me too!
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03-18-2024, 07:48 AM
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You might find some petrified wood around Pigeon Lake. Pretty cool stuff!
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If you’re near Medicine Hat, there’s a superb club there that welcomes amateurs and people just getting started. They seem to have nearby outings every week or so, a club room with tumbling/cutting/polishing equipment, show and tells, and talented people once a month or so showing how to cut & polish different stones.
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you can find some cool petrified wood in the Drayton area on the NSR tributaries.
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03-19-2024, 01:00 PM
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I have a buddy with a family farm by Peers. They have a LOT of petrified wood that they found along the Mcleod River
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