petrified wood from WYO

[mamabear]

My daughter & I dug at a great site in WYO about 10 yrs ago. This is one of the pieces we found.

 

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[loco oro]

nice i like it!

 

[Bajahunter]

When I was in high school we took several trips in our half ton truck up to south central Wyo. to collect petrified wood.
It was in a place called Shirley basin. The land was owned by a coal company and they were going to open pit mine the area. All the petrified wood was just going to get barried. So the company opened it up to the public for the summer to collect.
The petrified wood was all over the surface. We didn't find any that was very colorful. But it was in large pieces. Many other people were out there collecting. Some people with big trucks and hoists were hauling out big logs of petrified wood. We had a big big pile in the back yard that we gave away to kids.
If you went out there now you'd get run over by a giant dump truck.

 

[mamabear]

so sad. The place we visited was called blue forest petrified wood because some of it had opalized in to bluish white opal. I think I am due for another trip out there.

 

[Tigger]

mamabear

so sad. The place we visited was called blue forest petrified wood because some of it had opalized in to bluish white opal. I think I am due for another trip out there.

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we were there a year ago - you need to spend some time there to find anything - it looks like a bombed out area, the holes are everywhere!! yours is a fantastic sample, love the rings!! we worked on a log piece for a few hours, but it just fell apart. there are plenty of small broken bits all over the surface though. the wood was preserved in an algae crust, very different and interesting. I want to go back sometime, as well.

Tigger

 

[curious kat]

Those are very nice mamabear, you got some large pieces to!