Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 31, 2015 17:31:07 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Heat has broken and it's raining a bunch and I'm not riding so I figured I'd drag out the saw and cut a few agates. Here are the first couple. Custard yellow tube agate with multi colored moss inclusions and tiny fortifications. Very unusual for a Rio. A green moss with yellow dots. This seems to be the most common type of green moss from the area.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2015 20:36:29 GMT -5
Got a collection of weird Rios rolling in the tumblers Mel. Can't wait for you to identify them Must be 35 pounds, not necessarily pretty, but odd ones that had been set aside. Guessing most of them are no-names. Never seen anything like that first one, down at Zapata a wide variety.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 31, 2015 23:31:15 GMT -5
Nice Rio's.....................
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Post by captbob on Nov 1, 2015 8:54:46 GMT -5
Nice ones here! jamesp are you tumbling whole Rios or did you break them up?
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Post by frane on Nov 1, 2015 16:17:46 GMT -5
That first one almost looks like corpolite...not saying anything is wrong with it, just the look reminds me of the stuff Just amazing how they come from the same areas but look so different at times. Fran
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 1, 2015 19:30:45 GMT -5
Nice ones here! jamesp are you tumbling whole Rios or did you break them up? Both. I did collect tumble size pebbles for tumbling. So I broke bigger ones and left the smaller pebbles whole. The area I collected had agate pebbles averaging 1/2 to 3 inches. Tumbler's paradise.
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