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Post by rockpickerforever on Dec 12, 2013 18:04:25 GMT -5
Okay, Tommy, wait no more.
Happy with the shine, but I can see a few places I may need to cut back to. I already shortened it once, lol!
Anyway, I still have another piece to try my hand at. I'd say this is about 4.5 -5 in hardness, but I do like that color! Jean
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Post by LarryS on Dec 12, 2013 20:50:59 GMT -5
Thanks for posting the pics everyone. We were at that mine 3 years ago and wondered about that stuff. Looks like it would be worth digging around the piles for nice color. Rocks I picked up for my mom's patio were ugly. Mainly picked them up to get my dad mad. He thought she had too many rocks from all over the country. Kids enjoy tormenting their parents, no matter the age!
I second the Green Monster name.
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Post by grayfingers on Dec 12, 2013 21:10:46 GMT -5
Beautiful! I will second Larry's choice of name.
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Post by Tommy on Dec 12, 2013 23:48:10 GMT -5
I only brought home just a handful of small samples and this is probably my best of the best of them. With no evidence of it showing on the outside, I discovered a very cool vein of dirty quartzy material running through the length of this rock ... and real dendrites too that don't wash off. They are small but they are very cute hahaha.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Dec 13, 2013 12:15:45 GMT -5
Killer, Tommy! I like the Charger bolt running through it. We found some with streaks of quartz through them, but I don't think I grabbed any. Next time...
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Post by Tommy on Dec 13, 2013 12:38:26 GMT -5
Killer, Tommy! I like the Charger bolt running through it. We found some with streaks of quartz through them, but I don't think I grabbed any. Next time... Definitely not a Charger bolt. If that were a Charger bolt the cab would have looked really good for most of the process then crumbled under the pressure at the very end ... again ... Go Raiders
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Post by rockpickerforever on Dec 13, 2013 12:49:44 GMT -5
Tommy, you take that back! Did you not see what they did to the Broncos last night!!!! They took 'em apart!
But I get it, yeah, they do tend to crumble under pressure. It's those wins they get when they don't have a snowball's chance in hell that amaze me.
Oh, you don't want to even get me started on the Traitors, uh, Raiders...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 14:48:30 GMT -5
[Scott regrets not bringing any home]
Nice work guys!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Dec 13, 2013 15:22:58 GMT -5
That's real purty Tommy!
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Post by Tommy on Dec 13, 2013 15:58:39 GMT -5
[Scott regrets not bringing any home] My only regret is not hauling home that 500lb boulder for a garden rock hahaha. Not every day you get a chance to grab a bright green boulder for the garden.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 16:42:00 GMT -5
it is every day for me. I just gotta go back! lol
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Post by pghram on Dec 16, 2013 13:25:51 GMT -5
Rockpickerforever, I really like how the shape has mimiced the pattern in the stones.
Tommy, it looks lik you've captured a lightening bolt in that cab.
Rich
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Post by barclay on Dec 17, 2013 13:58:39 GMT -5
Cool, I can't wait to dig in to the rocks I gathered at the Green Monster. Taking a look at photos for andesite on google this stuff has a finer grain. Also being kind of like basalt and diorite I would expect it to be pretty hard and Tommy said his was soft in parts. I am happy calling it green marble.
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