RockyBlue
fully equipped rock polisher
Go U.K.
Member since June 2006
Posts: 1,719
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Post by RockyBlue on Sept 27, 2009 23:39:37 GMT -5
I finally broke open that big geode with a 10 lb sledge hoping to find some Ky.agate.Guess what was inside?........you got it ! nothin! just white quartz. But i`ll keep on trying.....Rocky
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Post by stonesthatrock on Sept 28, 2009 0:28:57 GMT -5
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww what a shame
mary ann
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Post by frane on Sept 28, 2009 6:23:28 GMT -5
Well, some times even white agate is pretty. Maybe you should get some slices off of it and see what it looks like. Fran
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NDK
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
Posts: 9,440
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Post by NDK on Sept 29, 2009 12:38:13 GMT -5
Wow, 87 lbs?!? Got any pictures of that monster? I'd love to see it. :drool:
Nate
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docharber
has rocks in the head
Member since October 2008
Posts: 693
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Post by docharber on Oct 7, 2009 23:21:10 GMT -5
A friend of mine in east Tennessee found a 140+ pounder. but the geodes from that area are generally nothing exciting- just white druzy quartz and limonite staining. Sometimes you find greyish botryoidal chalcedony. Fun to dig out of the stream beds, etc. , though and some are hollow and very pretty.
Mark H.
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Post by johnjsgems on Oct 8, 2009 9:20:07 GMT -5
My mother had a 12" Septarian nodule she collected in the early 70's. She never had a saw big enough to cut it but always said "someday". She worried someone would steal it and had me move it inside her covered porch. When I finally started in the rock hobby I convinced her to let me cut it. I took it to the rock club and had a more experienced guy clamp it in the saw and open it up. You guessed it, pretty much a dud. Two little white calcite pockets in a mud ball.
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Oct 8, 2009 13:20:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I've got some big Keokuk snowballs. Seems my best ones are the smaller (4"-6" diameter) geodes.
Chuck
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