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Post by MrMike on Apr 1, 2017 17:44:59 GMT -5
Mostly self collected rocks, nothing special except for a couple I got from cobbledstones 1 & 2 great moss from cobbled 2 Rest are self collected 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Apr 1, 2017 18:05:03 GMT -5
Self collected tumbles are always fun. That first moss is killer!
Chuck
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Post by Jugglerguy on Apr 1, 2017 21:00:50 GMT -5
Yep, number one is really nice. Nice job on all of them.
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Post by wigglinrocks on Apr 1, 2017 22:40:11 GMT -5
Tumbling rock you picked up is always fun . Sometimes quite a challenge also but you did a great job on that batch
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Post by Garage Rocker on Apr 2, 2017 6:15:00 GMT -5
Nice job, Mike. You did a super job on your collected rocks. That's some pretty moss agate too.
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Post by MrMike on Apr 2, 2017 9:48:15 GMT -5
Nice job, Mike. You did a super job on your collected rocks. That's some pretty moss agate too. Would be better if I didn't take such crappy photos. Need to invest in an idiot proof point & shoot.
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sdrockgal
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Post by sdrockgal on Apr 2, 2017 10:09:13 GMT -5
Very nice! I like number 4.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 2, 2017 11:40:21 GMT -5
Way to go MrMike. You dialed it in and made a fine Tennessee assortment. Wife says it looks like candy.
Even did well with crystalline quartz and granitoids.
#6 looks like epidote. ?
The moss, why can't we have moss ? Texas is as close as it gets.
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Post by pghram on Apr 2, 2017 12:10:21 GMT -5
Great batch, the second photo looks like a pile of jelly beans. That moss is killer.
Peace, Rich
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Post by MrMike on Apr 2, 2017 15:37:26 GMT -5
Very nice! I like number 4. Thanks, that's either a quartz conglomerate or a mixed grain quartzite, I think. Find lots of it & most doesn't tumble well. Even have some that if you squint your eyes it looks like Dino bone. Cut this one & just used the vibe.
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Post by MrMike on Apr 2, 2017 15:41:52 GMT -5
Way to go MrMike. You dialed it in and made a fine Tennessee assortment. Wife says it looks like candy. Even did well with crystalline quartz and granitoids. #6 looks like epidote. ? The moss, why can't we have moss ? Texas is as close as it gets. Thanks James. I was guessing #6 was a porphyritic rhyolite but I'm no expert. Speaking of epidote, I'm not too far from the Unaka Mtns, been itching to find some unakite.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 2, 2017 18:39:21 GMT -5
Way to go MrMike. You dialed it in and made a fine Tennessee assortment. Wife says it looks like candy. Even did well with crystalline quartz and granitoids. #6 looks like epidote. ? The moss, why can't we have moss ? Texas is as close as it gets. Thanks James. I was guessing #6 was a porphyritic rhyolite but I'm no expert. Speaking of epidote, I'm not too far from the Unaka Mtns, been itching to find some unakite. Unakite, have heard about that location. I think I meant Unakite and not Epidote. I got some unakite from Jugglerguy and it polished up nice. Yours is fine, the green part of my unakite polished better than the pink. Yours has a lot of green.
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Post by Starguy on Apr 3, 2017 19:02:53 GMT -5
jamesp I'm guessing but 1 and 2 look like high quality Maury moss agate. Very nice tumble! Later Brent
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Post by ChicagoDave on Apr 3, 2017 21:14:57 GMT -5
Great batch. Love the assortment of colors.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 4, 2017 4:10:51 GMT -5
jamesp I'm guessing but 1 and 2 look like high quality Maury moss agate. Very nice tumble! Later Brent Maury moss agate must be as good as moss gets. Looks like it is from central Oregon Brent.
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 4, 2017 9:44:05 GMT -5
Mike those are crazy cool tumbles! The colors are everywhere on the chart! AWESOME!!!
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Post by MrMike on Apr 4, 2017 15:50:01 GMT -5
Mike those are crazy cool tumbles! The colors are everywhere on the chart! AWESOME!!! Thanks Mike
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Post by Starguy on Apr 4, 2017 18:22:05 GMT -5
jamesp I'm guessing but 1 and 2 look like high quality Maury moss agate. Very nice tumble! Later Brent Maury moss agate must be as good as moss gets. Looks like it is from central Oregon Brent. jamespMaury mountain moss agate can have lots of pits and undercutting. Yours look perfect. I found a piece in my collection last year, about a 50 pound nugget. It was way too big for my saw but I managed to break it up into manageable pieces using existing cracks and a cold chisel and hammer. I haven't done much more with it but is starting to warm up in N. Idaho.
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Post by vera on Apr 7, 2017 18:28:56 GMT -5
I really like the black and white kind of stripey rock in the first picture a little up and left of the center in the mass. ;-)
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