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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Feb 24, 2012 18:17:34 GMT -5
But I decided to leave as is. At least for now! Just thought it was kind of interesting but I still want a peek inside of it!!!!!
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 24, 2012 18:48:34 GMT -5
Ooh neat! Looks like tubes or eyes inside....Mel
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Feb 24, 2012 18:52:41 GMT -5
Mel, that piece that looks like a slice appears to be connected to like at one time it had broke or something and grew back that way!
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 24, 2012 18:53:50 GMT -5
That's a cool one Donnie. Why not cut it through the center and polish the flats ? That will cure the need to know what's inside, You'll have a neat specimen, and you can always go back and slab it later.
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Feb 24, 2012 18:59:54 GMT -5
Thats cool looking........wonder what it looks like inside? ?
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Post by geoff on Feb 24, 2012 20:03:47 GMT -5
Cut it!
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Post by helens on Feb 24, 2012 21:14:05 GMT -5
Been looking and looking at it... wondering what the heck could have caused those little round circles??
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Post by snuffy on Feb 24, 2012 21:38:14 GMT -5
I'm probably wrong,but I'd guess that slice at one time was done and put back on top and placed in a bucket outside and over time gunk stuck them together.Have you tried soaking it to see if it releases? Just my gut feeling. By the way,I want to see inside too! My saws arent being used right now.Send it to me. ;D
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Post by geostew on Feb 24, 2012 22:32:00 GMT -5
That does look irresistable to cut into!
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Post by StoneCrazy on Feb 24, 2012 22:34:38 GMT -5
Yeh cut it in half. Get the best of both worlds.
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Feb 25, 2012 8:45:49 GMT -5
Snuffy, I will try that. I am curious to see if that is what happened.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2012 10:05:27 GMT -5
Lets do some betting. I will bet that the pattern is only on the outside and the center is clear to cloudy. I hope for your sake it is not ancient ring worm and there is no modern cure. lol Jim
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 25, 2012 10:59:01 GMT -5
Cool!!!
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Feb 25, 2012 13:44:22 GMT -5
I dropped it a couple of time to see if it would separate - it didn't. Now it's soaking in water. Tomorrow, if I have time I will cut it!!!
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Post by tandl on Feb 25, 2012 18:00:55 GMT -5
Cool !! cut it
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Post by SteveHolmes on Feb 25, 2012 19:00:20 GMT -5
Definitely cut it Donnie! Right down the center first...and if it has a great pattern...you can polish both sides, or better yet....polish one side, slab the other, and make your own Echostone! steve
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Post by johnjsgems on Feb 25, 2012 20:26:22 GMT -5
I found something similar in my dad's rocks when I first started. Actually about half a bucket of rounded rocks with weird swirly almost crazy lace like marks on the surface. I cut several and found absolutely nothing of interest inside. Pretty much what wampidy said.
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Post by Dicky the Rockhunter on Feb 25, 2012 20:27:33 GMT -5
cut cutr cut.
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Post by roy on Feb 25, 2012 22:30:54 GMT -5
cut it cut it cut it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by elementary on Feb 25, 2012 23:21:00 GMT -5
I find agates with the odd-shifted look to them out here in CA - Acton especially will often cough up a couple if I look hard enough. The way I understand it is that a gas bubble leaves a void in the basalt or whatever the host rock is, and before it fills with agate, seismic activity cracks the surrounding stone and shifts so the two halves are slightly off center. Then the agate comes in and fills it up and it looks like two offset halves. If you have a good one, cut it lengthwise and if there's banding inside, it will be conform to the odd shape of the stone and be more interesting then just a small rounded nodule. The other thing to do is polish the outer sphere and see if there's a bunch of eyes as Mel suggested there might be. I did this with a gobi-stone. Unfortunately I don't have an individual photo but I do have one from a display a couple years ago. It's the blue stone in the lower left. You can see the swirls on the stone thatturned out to be interesting eyes. Whatever it turns out to be, I hope its surprise outdoes the anticipation. Lowell
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