This weekend Heather and I are going camping at Spectrum Mines in Oregon!
Spectrum Mines is
"a 20 acre privately owned patented mining claim located 27 miles northeast of Plush, OR. Once owned by Tiffany’s of New York, it is Oregon’s first commercially operated sunstone mine. Also, it is one of the richest color Oregon sunstone deposits in the world, producing up to one kilo of colored sunstones per cubic yard of dirt. In June of 2004 Chris Rose, owner of Spectrum Sunstone Mine, found a single pocket that contained ¾ kilo of red labradorite sunstone."-www.highdesertgemsandminerals.com
You can camp out there and dig for jewels and whatnot. Heather found it on the Travel Channel and it woke up the archaeologist in both of us. It's not dinosaur bones, but hey, it'll be fun.
It's going to be a weekend of hanging out and digging for Red Sunstones, hanging out, and having fun.
So basically the plan is to come back with a slew of gems and retire on what we find. We'll take a bunch of pics and let you know it went. Have a great weekend!
