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Post by helens on Aug 17, 2013 23:50:23 GMT -5
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Post by roy on Aug 17, 2013 23:57:21 GMT -5
could be from the pinklady claim!
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Post by helens on Aug 18, 2013 0:06:39 GMT -5
Thanks Roy:)... I can't find any pix of Pink Lady plume tho... is it red??
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Post by deb193redux on Aug 18, 2013 0:15:21 GMT -5
Pink Lady is a claim at graveyard point. I don't think I can tell Pink Lady and Regency Rose apart, but I have seen redder plumes like that.
p.s. - graveyard plume agate can't come from anywhere else. it is not a kind of rock/mineral, but a rock found at a location.
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Post by helens on Aug 18, 2013 0:45:02 GMT -5
Thanks Daniel:). So, it's just a rare pocket of rocks that are red from that location then? The regency I have is pink and yellow plumes. Like this one:
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 18, 2013 17:51:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I've dug at Graveyard and there are sometime examples with a some red. Just needs to have more iron oxide in the plumes than usual.....Mel
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Post by deb193redux on Aug 18, 2013 18:28:43 GMT -5
yes, what Mel said. Can't say how rare it is, but most often you see the pink. The red I have seen was just an edge on the mostly pink.
You may even be able to heat treat pink and get it to turn more red. whatever iron is there will oxidize more readily with heat - you may also fracture the agate.
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Post by gemfeller on Aug 18, 2013 21:40:41 GMT -5
Graveyard Point encompasses a very large area with many different manifestations of mostly plume-type seam agate. Different minerals were available to the feedstock when the agate was deposited, resulting in a wide range of mineralizations, patterns and colors. Your Graveyard slabs are some of the prettiest I've seen -- and I've prospected, dug, jackhammered and surface-collected there many times over a lot of years. They should cut some eye-popping cabs.
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Post by helens on Aug 19, 2013 0:01:24 GMT -5
Thanks Mel, Daniel, Rick:). I had just never seen that coloration in Graveyard before.
Daniel, heat treating never even occurred to me!
Thanks Rick, they are pretty stunning pieces in person, my pix were pretty bad. The shots were taken with flash, but the colors are still visually true to the slabs. It's a very strong red, but makes me wonder if there's enough oxide present to get red from regular Graveyard too. I've looked at enough photos of digs to respect people who go out into pretty tough conditions to find their own rocks. Wish I lived closer to some of these locales:).
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