Slabbing Rocks from Deming New Mexico

I just got back from a rock hounding trip to Deming. It was fun and I found lots of cool rocks to take back to the shop. Here are some of those rocks before and after slabbing. Do you have a favorite?

[@jkoons]

Cool fossil find!

[@spwinaustin]

I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed it! 😁

[@Mike-br8vb]

I think the last quartzy one was my fav. 👍🏻

[@spwinaustin]

Thank you as always for watching Mike!

[@jamesferry6717]

Thanks for slabbing what you found! I'm looking forward to seeing what you make with what you found. If you are looking for another place to search in NM, I rockhounded the Lake Abiquiu area last Fall and found some decent material. The campground on the Southern part is filled with agate but nothing with any specific figure. I picked up some of the material that had interesting color but haven't done much with it. There are some great fluorite deposits there too. I also made it up to the Nacimiento Mine area and grabbed some nice copper blueberries, some black and green petrified wood, and a few thunder eggs. I didn't have time to hit the seam agates that are supposed to be in the Southern Jemez Mountains area.

[@spwinaustin]

Thanks for watching James, and also for the information about the other sites! They sound pretty cool.

[@lindam3801]

I like the first one the best.

[@spwinaustin]

That one was pretty cool. Thanks for watching!

[@keithcunningham7925]

I hope you get some better stuff than that but I do like the last one you cut it's pretty cool 😎🤩

[@spwinaustin]

Thanks Keith! I do have lots more to cut so fingers crossed 🤞

[@roman11469]

I liked that fatty quartz steak rock! I say win overall…We don’t see this stuff in Texas.

[@spwinaustin]

That one was the coolest of the batch, that’s for sure!

[@spetkovsek57]

I hope they start getting better than C's. You went a long ways to only get medium grade materials. I'm looking forward to seeing those Thundereggs.

[@spwinaustin]

Hopefully they will 🤞. I have started cutting the Thundereggs and so far I’m pretty happy with the results. I’ll have a video out soon.

[@spetkovsek57]

@@spwinaustin 😃

[@notinmanitou]

I think some of them would be cool if tumbled....you might face polish one surface to see.

[@spwinaustin]

Thanks, that’s a good idea!

[@jeanniehoffman2769]

At about 8:24 I thought I saw a little banding around that dark spot on the left. Am I seeing things?

[@spwinaustin]

You’re not crazy Jeannie, there’s definitely a little bit of banding there. Thanks for watching!

[@Charl-Viljoen]

Please face polish the big pice with fossil 😀

[@spwinaustin]

Thanks for the suggestion Charl!

[@rogerharris8081]

Bottom line don’t drive 10 hours to find NM rocks!

[@spwinaustin]

Good advice!😁 Thank you for watching!