Graveyard Point Agate

Banded Jasp-Agate found at Graveyard point.

On October 15th my mother, aunt and I stopped to do some rockhounding at Graveyard Point in Oregon near the Idaho border. We followed the sign that said blm on it and parked our camper off to the side of the dirt road. We drove up through the hills and past a flagpole with a scrap of old glory still flying. We stopped to look at some of the piles of dirt and pits at the top of the first hill but couldn't locate any agate there. We drove on for a couple miles on one of the dirt roads and stopped after passing through a fence without a gate. We did some looking around and found some float we also found a couple nice pieces around the base of an outcropping at the top of a hill. The sky started to threaten rain and we beat a hasty retreat off the hill. Down by the camper we started looking again and found many lovely agates and jaspers. Some of the rocks we found will need to be cut to try and find good patterns and many of the small rocks we found will make great tumbling rough.

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