Sparky
starting to spend too much on rocks
Still diggin'...
Member since October 2007
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Post by Sparky on Apr 1, 2009 14:37:32 GMT -5
Here are the slabs that Titania sent me. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 (Mahogany Obsidian?) #8 #9 Side view...(Rutilated quartz or Citrine, maybe?) #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 Chunks of rough... #22 #23 (Just love the bits of red and green in this one!) Any comments and help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking. Rus
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Post by NatureNut on Apr 1, 2009 14:59:12 GMT -5
Sparky, #22 is Citrine and #23 is Green Moonstone Oligoclase. You might want to spray the slabs with water and repost some of the pics to make out the details. Sorry to make you work more.
You got a nice haul there.
Jo
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Post by Titania on Apr 1, 2009 15:14:35 GMT -5
I got a little lazy with the IDs. I can ID a few more of them for ya.
#2 is some of MichaelJohn's Chryscocolla #3 is a poppy jasper #7 is Mahogany obsidian #9 is Rutilated Quartz #12 is Missouri Lace Agate #17 is from a Thunder Egg - unknown locale #22 is Citrine from PA #23 is Moonstone from PA
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Post by Michael John on Apr 2, 2009 1:17:19 GMT -5
Hehehe yup, I recognized #2 right off the bat. I love that "reversed spiderweb" stuff! It doesn't look like much slabbed, but the cabs look very cool! Keep Crazy Glue handy when you're working it, though. It likes to come apart at the "webs" sometimes. Once you finish the cab, back it with epoxy.
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Post by mohs on Apr 3, 2009 1:10:54 GMT -5
I'm interested in what #14 might be? I have a piece of stone that is very similar
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marathon
off to a rocking start
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Post by marathon on Oct 30, 2011 17:59:17 GMT -5
To me...#1 & #12 look like sowbellied agate and #20 dendrite.
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Post by Dicky the Rockhunter on Oct 30, 2011 19:18:17 GMT -5
those are definitely not sowbelly agate , even when cut off angle it does not look that way ..
FYI the term sowbelly came from the old time miners who took bacon to their camps to eat and sense it was from Sow ( of hog ) belly and had various layers to it was called sowbelly.. The current agate is composed of white to blue agate with band of darker brown and lots of amethyst and silver included. Only comes from Creed , Colorado. the famous Amethyst vein , yielded more than 3 million ounces of silver. Now only place to get it is the Last Chance mine. at $2lb.
Dicky
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2011 13:01:15 GMT -5
I have a pile of stone that looks like #14 here in WY. The biggest piece that I have weighs in at 55 pounds and many pieces in the ten pound range. When I first found some of it I thought it was common opal. Wish full thinking. Has to be agate but do not know a name for it other than that. Most is full of druzy cavities and some of it only has reds and pinks on the outside and pearly white on the inside.
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