scorpius21
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Post by scorpius21 on Feb 26, 2007 16:02:52 GMT -5
Well, I made my first trip to Saddle Mountain yesterday.. I had a good time hiking around and seeing what was around. I had a somewhat difficult time finding and fire that I felt was worth keeping. I hiked up in and around the mountain and had a nice time even tho I didn't turn up much in the way of Fire... Maybe with more experience I can make these trips a bit more productive.. The couple TINY ones I felt were worth photographing..    Daniel |
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Post by puppie96 on Feb 28, 2007 3:20:51 GMT -5
Daniel, I'm really interested in this since I went there myself, just about a year ago. Those are beautiful pieces. I came back with a lot of the chalcedony nodules, which are pretty in their own right, some with some nice looking darker areas. Some get close to what you have there, but still I am not sure I've been seeing fire even when they are tumbled -- I see green in yours.
I'm curious exactly where you went. I followed directions from 2 sources. One took you in from the paved road that you turn left onto--courthouse road or something like that. The other had you turn left just before the paved highway and take a track out into the desert. That's the one I took and spent the better part of the afternoon back in there. I didn't ever actually hike up to or into the mountain, I stayed near the car and picked up a lot of stuff. After leaving there I took the highway left turn and then went in from the dirt roads on that side, which were better maintained and had some signage. Eventually I got to a maintained parking area. It was obvious right away that this place was totally picked over, compared with the first area that I took the rough road into. I found a little bit there but actually a fair amount which I spotted from the car while driving out. In so many places that's the way it is; the destination point is hopeless but nobody stops along the way.
It was a beautiful place and a great experience & I still have untumbled nodules.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 28, 2007 12:31:51 GMT -5
sweet fire- Even if it is small!
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Post by Tweetiepy on Feb 28, 2007 13:25:38 GMT -5
Those are awesome, no matter how small they're still a find! I got some fire agate too from Cuervo73 but they were white and shaped like that - not dark like that - I don't see any fire in there, but is it possible there is fire within?
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WyckedWyre
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Post by WyckedWyre on Mar 2, 2007 21:38:09 GMT -5
Tweet -
If it doesn't contain fire than it's not fire agate. It's chalcedony.
Pretty in its own right, though.
The fire is in the dark area of the stone.
:)S
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