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Post by coloradocliff on Jul 3, 2017 22:40:23 GMT -5
Not familiar with material like you have in Panama but maybe someone will be along to help. Very nice material and welcome to the forum. I hope that you will stick around and learn with all of us. How hard is it? Where did you find it? Be good trading material for some of our northern rocks.
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Post by fvpty on Jul 3, 2017 23:46:16 GMT -5
More than jasper or agate ! Take twice the time to cut than average slab ... Find it in the province os santiago, panama rep panama
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 4, 2017 9:10:38 GMT -5
The name slips me,but someone on here has cut that material before-I remember photos of it...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 9:36:25 GMT -5
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Post by fvpty on Jul 4, 2017 21:40:45 GMT -5
Thanks he is also from panama ? Same rock ? Mmm will like to clasiffy it on the collection ... you guy's agree agate dentritic ?
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 4, 2017 22:56:25 GMT -5
Really unusual and beautiful but not dendrites, more stalk aggregates like sagenite or maybe even tubes if you would cut across them. Kind of reminds me of the agate they call Trent Sagenite which I think are pseudomormphs after realgar and stibnite. Dendrites implies treelike crystalline formations which your examples are not....Mel
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Post by itsandbits on Jul 5, 2017 10:28:57 GMT -5
I'd agree more of a "stick agate" along the lines of the Turkish material but finer and more detailed. Being so hard to cut, I wonder if these aren't some harder material; corundum? that later infilled with agate? It will be interesting to see more of this
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Post by panamark on Jul 16, 2017 14:38:28 GMT -5
I have not seen this material from Panama. Not surprising, because about the only Panamanian material fairly well know is the agate found in the dredge pilings from the original Canal. Santiago province has lot of different geology, but yours is really unusual I think.
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Post by catmandewe on Jul 16, 2017 14:58:13 GMT -5
Would be nice to find a bunch of that!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 15:47:34 GMT -5
Trent material is Oregon.
Didn't OP say his was Panamanian?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 18:12:37 GMT -5
Trent material is Oregon. Didn't OP say his was Panamanian? Yes he did, I meant to say that it looks similar to Trent. I've found non-native rocks when hounding before. Some of the rocks that I have mined have been distributed all over the world. Edited my post for you. didnt even see your post. I saw mel's. I think the odds of finding a relatively rare Oregon agate randomly in Panama is vanishing small. But not impossible, I agree! Good on you for distributing your finds worldwide.... FUN!
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Aug 12, 2017 0:43:23 GMT -5
I'm to dumb to offer any useful advice,but sure is some super nice stuff,
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Post by fvpty on Aug 12, 2017 0:51:26 GMT -5
Trent material is Oregon. Didn't OP say his was Panamanian? We are pretty small country but we are here! 👋🏻
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 12, 2017 7:07:42 GMT -5
That's an incredible find!!! Very nice. I had an agate called sagebrush agate with the same kind of stick branches in it. I believe it came for the US, though.
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