2016 AGATE EXPO Linda Marie Plume Agate

摘要

After a hard day of digging at Gene Muellers Regency Rose claim, Jake Jacobitz, Gene, Gary McFarland, and I are sitting by the campfire. We are gazing east toward the beautiful range of hills. I'm thinking, "There's got to be some other agate out there waiting to be discovered." So I throw out the question as I point towards the high hills in front of us. "Jake is there any agate out that way?" Jake says, "Sure ... there's a green plume that looks like Christmas trees. I dug it years ago, right over by that pinnacle at the top right". My ears perk up. "Green plume ... really? Is it worth going after?" Jake says, "Sure, if a fella is willing to put some money into it." That conversion back in April 2011 had always nagged at me. So on a cool, overcast day in late September 2012, Jake, my wife, Linda, and I went out to the Owyhee desert to stake a claim.