Post by leaveritethere on Dec 13, 2017 18:31:24 GMT -5
I'm sure that at another forum the thread title would conjure up an entirely different mental image, but I am actually just a pot head with a not so healthy infatuation with rocks
That's why I've joined the forum; to get healthy.
A couple years ago I became a rock head and gathered up a couple tons of pebbles and boulders on rainy days that amounted to what looked like a pile of gravel in my yard.
I ended up getting rid of it all having never figured out what any of it was.
When I was collecting it I thought d found everything from gold and,platinum to jade and rubies.
I did find some,garnet a few times,
I'm pretty sure of that.
At any rate after quiting for a,couple years I've been overcome by the fever again.
Last time I kept thinking all I needed was:
A rock tumbler
A wet saw
A rock crusher
Some nitric acid
Etc.
The list kept growing, but so did the pile of rocks. I never got the tools I figured would help sort it out and that would help to validate my suspicions that I'd become the richest man and California, but that part was always just beyond the horizon, yet there were thousands of rocks between me and the horizon.
This time I'm going to try to build a tumbler and a flat lap early on.
I have collected about a quarter ton
Of vesuvianite (var. Californite) or something like that. I'm trying to be more selective and careful about what I bring home but I've got to say, at times it sure just looks like a pile of rocks so I'm stopping now until I find proof. Well, except yesterday I went out and found about 300lbs of almandine garnets in matrix stones which are included in that 300lbs as the bulk of the weight. The difference is with those ones I know what I'm dealing with, but they are so difficult to get out that it ends up as a big pile of rocks just as,much as anything else I find and bring home.
Through ALOT of my Google searches I've found myself reading many threads at this site. The last batch of searches was on motors for building a flat lap and I was reading so many threads from here that I figured that I would join and would-be be get some help of my own once I got things going.
At any rate, looking forward to learning and sharing with all of you.
That's why I've joined the forum; to get healthy.
A couple years ago I became a rock head and gathered up a couple tons of pebbles and boulders on rainy days that amounted to what looked like a pile of gravel in my yard.
I ended up getting rid of it all having never figured out what any of it was.
When I was collecting it I thought d found everything from gold and,platinum to jade and rubies.
I did find some,garnet a few times,
I'm pretty sure of that.
At any rate after quiting for a,couple years I've been overcome by the fever again.
Last time I kept thinking all I needed was:
A rock tumbler
A wet saw
A rock crusher
Some nitric acid
Etc.
The list kept growing, but so did the pile of rocks. I never got the tools I figured would help sort it out and that would help to validate my suspicions that I'd become the richest man and California, but that part was always just beyond the horizon, yet there were thousands of rocks between me and the horizon.
This time I'm going to try to build a tumbler and a flat lap early on.
I have collected about a quarter ton
Of vesuvianite (var. Californite) or something like that. I'm trying to be more selective and careful about what I bring home but I've got to say, at times it sure just looks like a pile of rocks so I'm stopping now until I find proof. Well, except yesterday I went out and found about 300lbs of almandine garnets in matrix stones which are included in that 300lbs as the bulk of the weight. The difference is with those ones I know what I'm dealing with, but they are so difficult to get out that it ends up as a big pile of rocks just as,much as anything else I find and bring home.
Through ALOT of my Google searches I've found myself reading many threads at this site. The last batch of searches was on motors for building a flat lap and I was reading so many threads from here that I figured that I would join and would-be be get some help of my own once I got things going.
At any rate, looking forward to learning and sharing with all of you.