Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 11, 2014 9:14:34 GMT -5
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Roger
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Post by Roger on Mar 11, 2014 9:59:52 GMT -5
Neat material, reminds me a bit of OJ.
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tkvancil
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Post by tkvancil on Mar 11, 2014 10:07:05 GMT -5
Absolutely beautiful !!!
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Post by 150FromFundy on Mar 11, 2014 16:10:20 GMT -5
Thanks for the detailed post on the material. Is it a common material, or did you mine out the last and only vein?
Unfortunate to hear that an other collecting site has been covered by urban sprawl and development. As I plan a summer collecting trip to Maine, I am running into this a lot. What was once a historic site has now been covered by development when I check it out on Google Earth satellite imagery. Neat thing about rock collecting ... if you find something good harvest as much as you can. You are not killing it, you are protecting it.
Darryl.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 11, 2014 18:17:30 GMT -5
Darryl, The entire valley up there is underlayed by what is called the Hunters valley chert. That particular material is a banded green and brown material but in many spots, the local andesite has outcrops, veins and nodules of orbicuar ( poppy) type jasper or fine brecciated jasper. There is a monolith of brecciated jasper that is as big as a huge house up there. I would say that poppy jasper is not particularly rare in the area but is localized in a roughly southwest to northeast trend along the lower valley. It's odd but each occurrence seems to be a different material. The strawberry vein was revealed by a new road cut. I made the mistake of pointing out a few fancy huge boulders to a private land owner who, after saying I could collect after the cattle were off the property, instead, collected them himself but believe me, I got all that was exposed in the road cut I could get, plus I worked out a vein where it crossed onto a friends property where I had permission to dig. No urban sprawl there. This place is way out in the boonies. new owner who bought my friends ranch and just decided to put his new house right on top my collecting site *L*..Mel
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Good Earth
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Post by Good Earth on Mar 11, 2014 18:19:15 GMT -5
Beautiful Stuff. I really enjoy seeing the variety of poppy jaspers from this region!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 11, 2014 18:36:46 GMT -5
Love your Strawberry Jasper cabs, Mel!! Glad you got a nice supply of it before the new land owner started collecting it.
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 12, 2014 15:39:15 GMT -5
Thank you for such a treat. This is some serious eye candy!
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Post by drocknut on Mar 12, 2014 16:36:53 GMT -5
Beautiful material. I can see some of those wrapped to look like a strawberry, that would be really cool. Now I gotta go buy some strawberries...I'm hungry...lol.
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panamark
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Post by panamark on Mar 12, 2014 17:37:06 GMT -5
What an interesting variety, and all beautiful. Thanks for posting them Mel.
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Post by Tony W on Mar 12, 2014 21:03:16 GMT -5
What a great variety, Mel. You sure have found some great rock in and around Horintos! How it the world can special rock be so easy to build a house on top of. I've heard the story over and over. Someone's great collecting site is under a house now. Figure there are just a handful of great sites, and land all over everywhere. How come the house goes on the site? It just ain't right Tony
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 12, 2014 21:55:44 GMT -5
Tony, I agree. One of the reasons I did not feel super bad about selling the ranch out there and moving to this one was I kept losing access to all my collecting sites. Three of them sold within one year. Worse one of all was when a pro basketball player bought the ranch one of my supposedly public access roads onto BLM land passed through and gated it all off. This turned a two hundred yard hike from where I parked into a four mile horrible four wheel drive road or a terrible hike carrying a pack of rocks....Mel
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Post by roy on Mar 12, 2014 22:24:23 GMT -5
wow thanks for the show and tell ! always like seeing stuff you have stashed away that was a good find !
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Post by pghram on Mar 13, 2014 0:26:05 GMT -5
Absolutely beautiful!!!!!
Rich
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Post by Tonyterner on Mar 13, 2014 9:34:57 GMT -5
Very pretty, tough to decide which pattern is best. Thanks for the story.
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Mar 13, 2014 13:02:46 GMT -5
I'd like to order a bolder please! Very nice!
Chuck
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kaldorlon
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Post by kaldorlon on Mar 14, 2014 13:03:35 GMT -5
Great material and nice variety!
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