As much as I love rocks and rockhounding, I never developed gold fever. For one thing, the processes for finding gold are often too big and complicated to bring me pleasure. Perhaps, more than anything, I don’t actually find gold particularly pretty. I like minerals with some punch: sapphires, diamonds, that kind of thing.
If I
have anything, I have "fossil fever." Nothing matches the thrill of
finding a large chunk of petrified wood or the fossil of a perfectly preserved
sea creature dating back hundreds of millions of years. As a young boy, my head
was filled with thoughts of tyrannosaurs and triceratops and the exotic world
they inhabited. I didn't fully outgrow that.
Petrified
Wood and Crinoid Fossils
—Mitchell Hegman
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