micellular
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Post by micellular on Feb 19, 2016 13:49:42 GMT -5
Complete shot in the dark, but could #4 be some sort of fluorite pseudomorph? The purple/green translucency reminds me of fluorite, but the bladed structures don't. Maybe fluorite after barite? Here's an example of chalcedony after barite. How hard is that rock?
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Post by captbob on Feb 19, 2016 14:04:03 GMT -5
I'm completely stumped on that one micellular, it won't scratch with a really good knife. Piece has a very old price tag on the back for $18.95, and it's not even the size of half a dollar bill. Must be something kinda special to warrant that price many, many years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 17:39:32 GMT -5
Thank you all for your replies and best guesses so far. I know it's tough to ID a rock just by pictures, but it's kinda fun to try sometimes. About this photobucket site... when I just logged back on here again, 15-20 minutes ago, several of the pictures were gone. Some cat pic there instead. I had to go to my album and redo (copy & paste) several of the IMG URL scripts to get the pictures back. Any clue on why a few (six or seven?) pictures were gone but not others? Also, before when I clicked on a picture it would open another page where the picture shows up and can be enlarged. And, you can scroll through the other pictures in the album. Now when I click on a picture another page opens (a photobucket error page) saying: Sorry, the requested page does not exist. Ideas why? Not only am I looking for a few IDs here, but I'm trying to figure out this new, to me, photobucket account. Thanks! ETA: 'nuther photobucket question. Does a photo need to be resized (reduced) on the computer before downloading it to photobucket? Meaning, will it be resized simply by moving it from my computer to photobucket? I resized/resampled all these photos as well as lowered the resolution (pixel count) before downloading them to photobucket. That takes a LOT of time. Curious if I need to be doing that, and can't find anything about that in the instructions. Don't want to post any huge photos! Regarding resizing: Photobucket sucks. Crashes all the time. Wont resize images for you, all you get is one size. Change album name, all images stop working. Sign into your free flickr account using your yahoo.com email addrss and password. Flickr allows for full size upload and any size embedding of that image, resized on the fly. I have not seen it crash, ever. Gives you the bbcode to cut and paste. Photobucket smells like the south end of a northbound hog.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Feb 19, 2016 17:51:25 GMT -5
Excuse me, but you can resize photos once they have been uploaded to Photobucket. And I do not have issues with it crashing. Much more user friendly, simple to get direct code without jumping through hoops. Okay, so occasionally, it does do some weird things...
Open up your library, or most recent (many different ways to get there), mouse over the bars (bottom left) in photo you want to resize, click on edit. Click on "resize" at top of page, then select size you want. Then click apply, replace original (if that is what you want), then apply. Replace original works best if you have already posted the pic. This way, the URL does not change, posted photo remains the same, except resized.
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 19, 2016 18:13:20 GMT -5
I never have a problem with Photobucket either,but do have a Flickr account too-which I rarely use...........
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Feb 19, 2016 19:04:55 GMT -5
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Post by captbob on Feb 19, 2016 20:44:51 GMT -5
It does look like your piece of rough in that link Chuck. Thank you for the ID. Kinda surprised as it's out of an older collection, and I kinda thought everything would have been of North American origin.
I didn't get anything fancy camera wise, just a better PHD (Push Here Dummy) camera than the one I had. The Sony Cyber-shot H300. Still a nice step up from my 10ish year old Kodak Easyshare camera.
Gotta head out of town for the weekend, but looking forward to playing with the Sony next week. Set up the photobucket account so I can flood the forum with pictures!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 3:36:47 GMT -5
Excuse me, but you can resize photos once they have been uploaded to Photobucket. And I do not have issues with it crashing. Much more user friendly, simple to get direct code without jumping through hoops. Okay, so occasionally, it does do some weird things... Open up your library, or most recent (many different ways to get there), mouse over the bars (bottom left) in photo you want to resize, click on edit. Click on "resize" at top of page, then select size you want. Then click apply, replace original (if that is what you want), then apply. Replace original works best if you have already posted the pic. This way, the URL does not change, posted photo remains the same, except resized. And in Flickr you click the share arrow, choose the size you want to share, choose bbcode copy and paste the code. Done. No fancy ways to avoid breaking your URLs. They just don't break. I am happy you like the fixes to the problems of photo bucket. Nothing to fix at Flickr. When I say cannot resize image, I mean the visitor. Not the user.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Feb 21, 2016 3:57:29 GMT -5
THBPBPTHPT!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 12:11:46 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Feb 22, 2016 3:16:23 GMT -5
Maybe I spelled it wrong?
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Post by tandl on Feb 26, 2016 17:51:34 GMT -5
The coral is lithostrotionella it is found in iowa,illinois,missouri,west virginia
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Post by rockpickerforever on Feb 26, 2016 18:55:17 GMT -5
Complete shot in the dark, but could #4 be some sort of fluorite pseudomorph? The purple/green translucency reminds me of fluorite, but the bladed structures don't. Maybe fluorite after barite? Here's an example of chalcedony after barite. How hard is that rock? Michelle, let me know if you have found out what this is. I also have a chunk, picked up at an estate sale:
Thanks!
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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2016 2:40:39 GMT -5
flickr
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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2016 2:45:40 GMT -5
@shotgunner rockpickerforever1. Flickr Flickr, one of the most popular photo sharing sites on the web, is one of the most community oriented photo sharing sites available. If community is what you’re looking for, Flickr is the top choice. It’s essentially the Facebook of photo sharing sites. Not only is Flickr’s community aspects fantastic, it also has some of the best features and most affordable pricing in comparison to most other options.
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Post by captbob on Feb 27, 2016 4:05:52 GMT -5
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 7, 2016 18:02:15 GMT -5
Man, how did I miss this post *L*? Though I am not a lot of help on minerals.
#2 Aussie gaspeite #3 Russian Amazonite #4 wild guess pink tourmaline in matrix #5 Aussie dendritic opalite #12 Indonesian fossil coral prob heat treated by the color #13 Aussie chrysoprase
By the way, you got some nice palm fiber in that lot.....Mel
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Post by captbob on Mar 7, 2016 18:45:51 GMT -5
Thanks Mel, that helped fill in some blanks!
At our local rock show this past weekend I found someone selling something that looked like #7, called it dragon stone (not septarian). Google says it is out of both Africa and Australia, and also calls it dragon blood.
Will post thread of rock show scores sometime this week as time permits.
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 7, 2016 18:59:39 GMT -5
Bob, One of our members gave me a slab of dragon's blood for my type collection and is is not like what you've pictured. Think he said his was the Aussie stuff. Don't know what the other type looks like.....Mel
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 7, 2016 20:29:25 GMT -5
#1 I agree with someone else- Russian Astrophyllite #2 I disagree that it is turquoise or gaspeite. Gaspeite is a different color. #3 agreed Really sweet amazonite #5 agreed dendritic opalite #6 agreed Indian sunstone #7 looks a whole lot like Aussie atlantisite or serpentine with stitchtite (or something else) but the spots are atypical. It would be pretty soft if it is. #9 possibly stephonite ? I have some and it looks similar. It's pretty hard stuff. In keeping with the unusual stones you have maybe it is that. #10 Looks a lot like the purple opal from Mexico #11 agreed low grade sugalite #12 coral #13 chrysoprase #14 dunnoite Got some nice palmwood there, too. So, I'm doing a lot of agreeing and guessing because it's fun.
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