Post by Sabre52 on Jul 21, 2010 16:20:54 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Did a few more slices today. Having some trouble with the threads on my vice but I managed to hack up a few interesting pieces. Sorry for the pic quality. Everything is still a bit oily. Thanks for looking....Mel
Flora Claim Poppy Jasper. This was mined out in the mid 1960's and I've dug the site with little luck except a bit of tumbling material. I did one day though, meet the miner's son who is a pretty nice fellow and he showed me a rock wall his dad had built with some of the jasper he didn't sell. ( I think he said he sold about 4000 pounds at 50 cents per pound which was better than his gold mine yielded at that time.) He was nice enough to let me high grade the rock wall and buy what I wanted and these are off one of the only hunks small enough for my 10" saw. And these were almost too big. Had a time with the last cut!
Closer shot:
Mined this poppy myself in an old pit my buddy and I dug. Pit was probably an old gold mine so may have been blasted at one time or maybe the poppy just forms up crappy on it's own. *L*. Really like the colors but I've yet to find a piece that isn't full of fractures, vugs or pits. Sad that almost all poppy jasper is so problematic to cab. Kind of sorry I bothered hauling it halfway across the country.
Closer shot:
And finally, got this in a box from our girl Jamie. She didn't ID most of what she sent but I'd guess this to be Bouse , AZ sagenite as it looks like some I collected there years ago.
Closer shot. Sagenite is in red, black and white.
Flora Claim Poppy Jasper. This was mined out in the mid 1960's and I've dug the site with little luck except a bit of tumbling material. I did one day though, meet the miner's son who is a pretty nice fellow and he showed me a rock wall his dad had built with some of the jasper he didn't sell. ( I think he said he sold about 4000 pounds at 50 cents per pound which was better than his gold mine yielded at that time.) He was nice enough to let me high grade the rock wall and buy what I wanted and these are off one of the only hunks small enough for my 10" saw. And these were almost too big. Had a time with the last cut!
Closer shot:
Mined this poppy myself in an old pit my buddy and I dug. Pit was probably an old gold mine so may have been blasted at one time or maybe the poppy just forms up crappy on it's own. *L*. Really like the colors but I've yet to find a piece that isn't full of fractures, vugs or pits. Sad that almost all poppy jasper is so problematic to cab. Kind of sorry I bothered hauling it halfway across the country.
Closer shot:
And finally, got this in a box from our girl Jamie. She didn't ID most of what she sent but I'd guess this to be Bouse , AZ sagenite as it looks like some I collected there years ago.
Closer shot. Sagenite is in red, black and white.