rockdunker
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 23, 2017 15:08:43 GMT -5
Love that crazy looking chalcedony! And I'd be happy with those Montana agates alone. Sweet finds. It's neat stuff for sure. Still working on the names of them all. Looking forward to recognizing more material as I come across it. I have a few down but it seems folks get more excited about the odd rocks I pickup rather than the expected ones. Like the Clinker, that one seems pretty popular.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 0:07:17 GMT -5
Love that crazy looking chalcedony! And I'd be happy with those Montana agates alone. Sweet finds. It's neat stuff for sure. Still working on the names of them all. Looking forward to recognizing more material as I come across it. I have a few down but it seems folks get more excited about the odd rocks I pickup rather than the expected ones. Like the Clinker, that one seems pretty popular. Noah, Updated your collecting thread and posted the pictures of the last 2-3 days.
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rockdunker
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 10:08:10 GMT -5
It's neat stuff for sure. Still working on the names of them all. Looking forward to recognizing more material as I come across it. I have a few down but it seems folks get more excited about the odd rocks I pickup rather than the expected ones. Like the Clinker, that one seems pretty popular. Noah, Updated your collecting thread and posted the pictures of the last 2-3 days.
Cool, thank you. This place a pretty neat. I'm not sure if it's more fun searching for the rock or finding it.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 14:43:03 GMT -5
fossilman Moss agates... Laurel, Montana area......My opinion...Thumbs up Since Laurel is upstream from where the Montanas are eroding out, down below Custer.. Then are the moss Agates from there a different type than the rest of the river from below Custer all the way to Glendive? We appreciate your experience and insight Mike. We know you to be the man on this part of the world. Your views and opinions are highly valued. Eye candy agate picture. Nothing to do with the question.
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rockdunker
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 21:38:26 GMT -5
Noah, rockdunker brought his haul of rock from North Dakota where he works during the week to play with my rocks. Prairie agates, moss agates, clinker, carnelians, wood, and great Montana agates. A lot of stuff Noah collects from a gravel operation and oil field work. He also does a lot of collecting out in the boonies. His rocks didn't fight and played with my truck pile rocks from here in Colorado.
His weeks worth of prairie agates. He's becoming a ruthless high grader.
The carnelian, one of which had a bluish chalcedony on it.
The clinker formed from superheating rocks when underground coal seams in ancient times became ignited.
Very intensively high graded Montana agates, all with great internal inclusions.
A hand full sample of some of the broken ones
Moss agates
And a get together of all the rocks and trucks.
The truck pile where I unload my rocks to pick through them to take in or leave out for kids who come to the nursery to rockhound.
Noah took off on me to go fishing in the nursery lake while I washed and sorted all the rocks. His best bass a 7 pounder or so he set the hook so hard the fish is probably in Utah.
My last stop of the day, I bailed on Noah to search thru the house for his family and I bee lined to the liquor store where I found a sign in the back which I promptly defaced by adding "to deport" . Sorry not politically correct here and cant resist temptation. grinning as always..
Last one is Noah guarding his rocks and his pink bicycle from Rich, sometimes Dale.
pink bike
New agate from an island Yellowstone River Montana
More new Montana agates
Wood JAsper ?
Another new agate
Dakota BAdlands Wood
Wood grain Badlands
Assorted Prairie agates, wood jaspers, wood, and montana agates
Montana Moss Agate
Montana agate
Montana Agate Noah broke by mistake
Wood Jasper ? Knife wont scratch it
Badlands agate dark
Hey now I didn't take a hammer to that agate. I did that to one my first week looking for them and gave up that plan. That thing came home like that after the lovely baggage handlers tossed it around. I thought I'd made it to heavy to throw. They showed me....
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rockdunker
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 21:40:14 GMT -5
The ten bottom pics are new. Sure would like to polish the outside of those two halves and have a cool paper weight.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 21:45:29 GMT -5
The ten bottom pics are new. Sure would like to polish the outside of those two halves and have a cool paper weight. Hey Noah, Why did you leave that Grass Butte collecting area?? You gps ed me right in on you. awesome topography for a badlands hunt and a good known area. Hers that last piece of agatized wood you found and a couple more.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 21:46:31 GMT -5
Monster tree trunk you found out there. Are these the chips when you were windowing big Montanas today?
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 21:54:57 GMT -5
Here's the pictures of the limbcasts you kept running aross. DId you pick some up? For me and Rich. sometimes Dale, always wigglinrocks ?
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 22:03:31 GMT -5
Here's those big wood trunks you came across today. Hope you paid good attention to the different sediment layers above and below so you can find this zone again in another area for different material and agatized too. Nice score.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 22:14:16 GMT -5
I picked up some other kind of rusted egg looking material. Popped one open and it had like a grey chert inside of it. Left that area because the material I was finding was too fractured to do much with found the seam up the creek wash where it was exposed. Lots of agate, jasper and chert but it was all busted up. Tried to window some of it and ended up with a handful of pieces. Found that agatized wood right next to the truck on the way back from my hike.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 22:17:01 GMT -5
View AttachmentHere's those big wood trunks you came across today. Hope you paid good attention to the different sediment layers above and below so you can find this zone again in another area for different material and agatized too. Nice score. I took pics of the different layers. Not sure what they are. Some was Clinker and a coal seam. Whatever that striated sandstone was and some cool looking slate of some sort.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 22:42:54 GMT -5
ejas147 You sound like a spammer selling stuff...
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 22:46:44 GMT -5
Here's those big wood trunks you came across today. Hope you paid good attention to the different sediment layers above and below so you can find this zone again in another area for different material and agatized too. Nice score. I took pics of the different layers. Not sure what they are. Some was Clinker and a coal seam. Whatever that striated sandstone was and some cool looking slate of some sort. Smart. Figured you for that . Long day? Was here. When things slow down and freeze out its bookwork time for sure. Might be good to study that grassy Butte now while you're fresh . Maybe an interpretative sign at the par on the east side of Grassy Butte will have a picture sign for you to take pictures of. Where did the little chunks of tumble Montana come from? The well sites??
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 23:19:59 GMT -5
Yeah the Montana chips are from the rock crusher. Found them on the well site.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 23:46:41 GMT -5
Yeah the Montana chips are from the rock crusher. Found them on the well site. Good eyes. Do you ever look up anymore? Need to have something for scale in the pictures you send me during the day to post. Can, lighter, coin.. . Where you hunting tomorrow? The pit? Loader or the gravel one.. straight face here. Digging doesn't sound real promising due to the amount of material to find one good one. In winter it will be the pit or the southwest exposures of the Buttes.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 27, 2017 23:49:13 GMT -5
OH Noah PS Look around the disturbed soil around locations where the maintainer scraped out the pit or flattened the location to set up the rig. Also look for where they drilled out the surface casing hole. Coarser material but bet they tossed it in the pit. Check that out if you are on location when they're setting surface.
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rockdunker
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 0:09:31 GMT -5
You should drive up here. We'll dress you up like a consultant and go look for rocks. I'll show you the spots I'm getting them and maybe you can sort the leverites so I don't end up hauling 500 pounds of yard rock. Need to learn how to window a rock without adding a door.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 0:12:39 GMT -5
Here's the pictures of the limbcasts you kept running aross. View Attachment DId you pick some up? For me and Rich. sometimes Dale, always wigglinrocks ? I didn't get any of that. I'll go back and load a couple frsb's for you.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 28, 2017 1:03:32 GMT -5
Noah, rockdunker brought his haul of rock from North Dakota where he works during the week to play with my rocks. Prairie agates, moss agates, clinker, carnelians, wood, and great Montana agates. A lot of stuff Noah collects from a gravel operation and oil field work. He also does a lot of collecting out in the boonies. His rocks didn't fight and played with my truck pile rocks from here in Colorado.
His weeks worth of prairie agates. He's becoming a ruthless high grader.
The carnelian, one of which had a bluish chalcedony on it.
The clinker formed from superheating rocks when underground coal seams in ancient times became ignited.
Very intensively high graded Montana agates, all with great internal inclusions.
A hand full sample of some of the broken ones
Moss agates
And a get together of all the rocks and trucks.
The truck pile where I unload my rocks to pick through them to take in or leave out for kids who come to the nursery to rockhound.
Noah took off on me to go fishing in the nursery lake while I washed and sorted all the rocks. His best bass a 7 pounder or so he set the hook so hard the fish is probably in Utah.
My last stop of the day, I bailed on Noah to search thru the house for his family and I bee lined to the liquor store where I found a sign in the back which I promptly defaced by adding "to deport" . Sorry not politically correct here and cant resist temptation. grinning as always..
Last one is Noah guarding his rocks and his pink bicycle from Rich, sometimes Dale.
pink bike
New agate from an island Yellowstone River Montana
More new Montana agates
Wood JAsper ?
Another new agate
Dakota BAdlands Wood
Wood grain Badlands
Assorted Prairie agates, wood jaspers, wood, and montana agates
Montana Moss Agate
Montana agate
Montana Agate Noah broke by mistake
Wood Jasper ? Knife wont scratch it
Badlands agate dark
Hey now I didn't take a hammer to that agate. I did that to one my first week looking for them and gave up that plan. That thing came home like that after the lovely baggage handlers tossed it around. I thought I'd made it to heavy to throw. They showed me.... Well since Noah is bigger than me I guess Ill believe him. I bleed easily.
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