texmom
spending too much on rocks
When life gives you lemons, squeeze it on fried catfish!
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Post by texmom on Feb 27, 2005 12:28:03 GMT -5
This may be a question that has been asked before , but there is an abandoned railroad spur that has the ballast still there... I think for sure there is granite, flint, marble and other stones among them. Has anyone bothered to try and tumble these?
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phoenix1647
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Post by phoenix1647 on Feb 27, 2005 13:44:40 GMT -5
I picked up a bucket full of rocks off the RR near my house but haven't tumbled them yet...got way too many ahead of them.
I don't think it will be a problem tumbling them..after all..they are rocks..
Pho
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Post by Cher on Feb 27, 2005 14:05:24 GMT -5
I've picked up RR rocks and polished them. Don't know what they were but most of them turned out very nicely.
Cher
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llanago
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Post by llanago on Feb 27, 2005 14:26:21 GMT -5
Texmom, I picked up loads of that when I was in Llano last year. The first batches didn't polish as well as the last I polished. I just tossed it in with everything else - flint, agate, jasper and who knows what else. It basically was used it for fill. The last batch I polished with Superluster, which is a polish to use when one has a mongrel mix of various hardness of rocks. I ALWAYS have that! ;D They polished up beautifully! I was really pleased. The Superluster polish is great for those kind of batches because it does polish the softer rocks along with the hard ones.
llana
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Post by Cher on Feb 27, 2005 16:15:10 GMT -5
Guess that's one I haven't heard of Llana, where did you get it? (I mean the Superluster)
Cher
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texmom
spending too much on rocks
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Post by texmom on Feb 27, 2005 20:00:23 GMT -5
Llanago, this is texmom... sorry other entry was as guest. I am still getting the hang of it.
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texmom
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Post by texmom on Feb 27, 2005 20:04:36 GMT -5
or... maybe it didn't makeit on at all.
What I said was, are you from Texas? I would like to go to Llano, but it might as well be a million miles from here as only hundreds. I have a disabled husband, so long travel is not going to happen for me.
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phoenix1647
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Post by phoenix1647 on Feb 27, 2005 20:39:00 GMT -5
Hey Texmom...where in Texas are you located please? I am near College Station.
Pho
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phoenix1647
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Post by phoenix1647 on Feb 27, 2005 20:39:14 GMT -5
Hey Texmom...where in Texas are you located please? I am near College Station.
Pho
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Post by cookie3rocks on Feb 27, 2005 20:56:47 GMT -5
I was originaly from the Beaumont/Houston area. Where are you, Texmom? I just got some granite and haven't tumbled any yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
cookie
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texmom
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Post by texmom on Feb 28, 2005 8:53:03 GMT -5
I am near Palestine.
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Post by creativeminded on Feb 28, 2005 9:56:43 GMT -5
I was in Palestine for a little while when I was a traveling therapist. Anywho, on the rocks I don't know how well they will polish but I like to say you never know until you try. Tami
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Post by Al B on Feb 28, 2005 11:43:10 GMT -5
In addition to the regular granite type rocks, I often find some strange types that are very darkly colored and when chipped reveal a silver colored or gold colored interior. They come in different sizes, some an inch+ thick, two to four inches long and two to four inch wide. They are usually flattened and I am thinking they may be a mineral of some type that may have gone through a process of some kind and fell off a rail car in shipment. They are quite heavy and somewhat common in the area I came upon here in So. California. Anyone care to venture a guess as to what they may be? I'd sure like to know.
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phoenix1647
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Post by phoenix1647 on Feb 28, 2005 12:03:07 GMT -5
Al..if you can..post a picture of those rocks...
Pho
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Post by Al B on Feb 28, 2005 12:16:32 GMT -5
Pho - sorry, not able due to not knowing how and not having a camera other than the wind-up "Brownie" I use. (Sometimes the pitchers even come out.)
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 28, 2005 13:06:53 GMT -5
if its heavy like lead and dark out side and silver when you get inside it could be hematite cause mine i have here has a dark dirty look to it but when you get inside its light silver,, if you have a piece handy rub it with a piece of wet sand paper if it turns it red then it prob is
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chassroc
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Post by chassroc on Feb 28, 2005 13:19:21 GMT -5
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Post by Al B on Mar 1, 2005 11:21:37 GMT -5
Sandsman, couldn't get any red to show up. Chassroc, around here signs have been put up all along the RR tracks warning tresspassing is unlawful. Even well up into the countryish sections of LA County, where I live. They say the reason is too many people getting killed (or, killing themselves), and, I'm sure, for certain "other" reasons. The patrol is done by the Sheriff, paid for by the RR, and now I kind of stay away. When the program started about a couple of years ago I was issued a warning citation while hiking along the tracks by a Deputy under the new "plan" and I'm shy now even though I hiked those areas for many years. Times are sure changing! years
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texmom
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Post by texmom on Mar 1, 2005 21:06:28 GMT -5
That is why I specified it is an abandoned track... hasn't been used in more than 30 years. I am hoping there is rock there, haven't checked yet.
Walking near the tracks is very dangerous.
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