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Post by MsAli on Nov 27, 2018 18:39:30 GMT -5
Some of you may have seen the thread where my friend picked up a box of rocks for me at an estate sale When I was researching Trent agate (omg how sad that's under a freeway) yesterday I came across this on Etsy (sold) and it is almost exactly like the one that was in that box Thoughts on it? Wishful thinking? Pic 1 Etsy listing 2 & 3 my slab
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 19:09:20 GMT -5
Same colors, but the second one doesn't look like Trent to me (no needle crystals, and looks more like moss than orpiment and realgar). Very pretty slab, though.
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Nov 27, 2018 20:05:43 GMT -5
Post by MsAli on Nov 27, 2018 20:05:43 GMT -5
Same colors, but the second one doesn't look like Trent to me (no needle crystals, and looks more like moss than orpiment and realgar). Very pretty slab, though. I noticed that. Wish I knew what it was. It's very pretty
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Post by stonemon on Nov 29, 2018 20:23:57 GMT -5
The first one is definitely Trent, the second is a very nice moss agate. I am not willing to venture a guess as to source on the moss agate but the Trent came from a small deposit that was discovered when they expanded a rail bed running up the Willamette River over to Central Oregon. (Lane County, Willamette Valley, Oregon)
The deposit was very limited in size and was pretty much dug out. There are a lot of myths about the deposit, including that there is a freeway on it now. Hwy 58 which runs up by the deposit is still just a 2 lane rural Oregon highway, not a freeway and as far as I know, the seams of Trent exposed by the railroad siding played out and that is why there has been no more rough dug. I spent some time with another person last summer who was lucky enough to dig there. He was at the Prineville pow-wow and he related his story of the dig to me. It is an amazing material My father and grandfather dug there back in the 1960's and I have been blessed with a bit of heirloom stock which I cut with caution due to the arsenic and other heavy metals in it. (I was too young at that time to join them)(Too old to dig right now!) .
Just some background info... Best, Bill
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Nov 29, 2018 21:45:48 GMT -5
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Post by MsAli on Nov 29, 2018 21:45:48 GMT -5
Thank you Bill I was reading about it and found it a really interesting story. You are very blessed to have some
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 1, 2018 10:48:10 GMT -5
Yuppers, having Trent agate is rare anymore...... A buddy of mine gifted me a nice piece, I haven't done anything with it... Rare indeed! Nice colors on that one!
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Dec 1, 2018 11:00:23 GMT -5
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Post by MsAli on Dec 1, 2018 11:00:23 GMT -5
I found one that is 19.95 for a 3oz piece Cant justify it yet, but I may have to just to have one
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