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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 12, 2021 15:09:54 GMT -5
Where was this found? Can't really tell from the photo, but it does not look like black schorl to me. Again, judging by the dark photo, I can't see the lined texture on the sides of it. It looks too "flat", it should shine some.
Will upload a photo of what I am talking about.
If the shorl is large enough and hard enough, it can be worked. I have cabbed some in the past.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 12, 2021 13:36:56 GMT -5
You're right RickB, rockfall can be a huge problem!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 12, 2021 13:34:47 GMT -5
I wouldn't call this rare material, more like cool. You liked the Brenda jasper fish, here's a few more of my fossil finds. I like fossils! Agatized snail. Don't know if this is a cast or just full replacement, I think the latter. "Found" this at a rock show. Small shells in palm bog, from Indian Pass road area in SE California. Did not see the shells when I was slabbing the rock, saw them months later. How's that for paying attention? Doh! Strange bumpy rock found sitting on the surface of the ground in Ocotillo Wells, CA. As found. Light brown in color, opaque, hardness maybe 7? Probably quartz of some flavor. I have not subjected it to myriad tests. Will ask for opinions of knowledgable people next rock show I go to. Horn coral (I believe) my husband found at same location, on the same trip. Another chalcedony/quartz type rock, found in Midway Well area (Hauser Geode Beds) in CA south of I-10. At first, I thought maybe a quartz replacement root? But the bump in the end suggests not a root, but a branch nub on a stick? Roots aren't generally shaped like that (90 degree bend). The stub also has concentric layers in cross section. Piece of badly cabbed Victoria stone from a Vintage / Antique Mall in San Diego. For $3, I'm not going to complain too much. This one photo doesn't show how badly it was cabbed - scratches, chips, mostly flat dome, inconsistent girdle, etc. But all is not lost, it is still Victoria Stone! Will rework it when the urge strikes me. Maybe more later, if you can stand it.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 12, 2021 12:38:45 GMT -5
This is a cool home, I'd live in it! But how do you heat it in the winter?? (Nevermind, looks like they burn wood.)
Bought rocky lot in Cascade Mountains, created megalith home amid boulders
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 10, 2021 21:31:00 GMT -5
When tbey USED to be funny....... You mean like in the seventies? haha Exactly!!! I think jasoninsd is a little young for that!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 10, 2021 21:25:38 GMT -5
jasoninsd - Spilt milk? I actually went looking for an SNL meme. But that's okay, beggars can't be chosers, lol. Maybe the SNL reference is before your time. When tbey USED to be funny.......
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 10, 2021 21:11:26 GMT -5
I was so inspired by jasoninsd 's beautiful creation that I picked through my preforms and found the perfect piece of Burro Creek to work on ... I almost had the dome shaped ... and it broke Dang. Rats! I hate it when that happens! Okay, meme man jasoninsd, give me a meme, lol!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 10, 2021 12:44:20 GMT -5
Been lurking for years. I used to watch me miner and Michigan rocks on YouTube, couldn’t believe they were on this site. It’s a wealth of information and nice people.one last thing, people have the neatest cleanest shops. My rock stuff is jammed in a corner of my shop, gotta step over boxes of rocks and tumbling paraphernalia, but tumbling gets done! Welcome to the forum, Jimmy. We've all been bitten by the rock bug, but not all by the "neatness" bug, lol. Some will tell you a clean rock shop is the sign of a sick mind. Something like that... It goes against ones sensibilities to see a clean rock saw. Due to the nature of this messy business, you can buy a new rock saw, and tell yourself you are going to be meticulous about keeping it clean, then realize how much time you are spending on that endeavor, vs. how much time you are actually sawing rock. Many give up after awhile. I am in the messy group. Welcome to the forum from southern California. You will have fun here. Edit to add - My mostly-self-collected rocks are spread out all over the house and yard, but mostly on the patio. No horizontal surface is safe!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 9, 2021 17:11:55 GMT -5
I did not find a fish. Yes, it was me who found that piece of gem silica in Brenda Area (although Jim claimed it was his because I found it in the road when I was getting ready to take a picture for Jim of him sitting at the base of a cactus). Mine was pretty but not that big or clear. I don't really remember seeing a thousand dollar chunk of gem silica anywhere. Diane, I was just ribbing you about who found the GS, lol. I know it was you who found it. As for the $1000 piece of GS, I think that is a totally unrelated thing Mark K spoke of, not a value of the rock you found. As one gets older, stories tend to get jumbled, and we misremember things.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 9, 2021 10:53:44 GMT -5
Wishing Happy Birthday to the both of youse!
Have some fun!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 7, 2021 18:26:54 GMT -5
Our power went out for a few hours Thursday morning. I didn't reset all the clocks after the power came back on (knowing I was going to be resetting them in a couple of days!), just changed the prominent ones we look at most. I have about an even number of 110v and battery (AA) run clocks.
I'm normally one of those people that goes around and changes them all before going to bed Saturday night, but this year, I did not. I changed them this morning, and by noon, two of the battery operated clocks had quit working. DOH! This is why I hate having to go through this bullfish twice a year! I put a new AA battery in each of those, broke out the step stool again, and put them back on the wall. Took care of it.
Three years ago, there was an advisory vote to abolish this stupid practice of moving clocks forwards and back twice a year, but Congress has never acted on it. Why? I'm sure many other people are asking that same question. But I digress...
Since California does still adhere to this back and forth, and AZ does not have a "savings time," half the year we are the same time as them, the other half, we are not. In January, during the big to-do in Quartzsite, we are both on standard time (MST and PST), so they are an hour ahead of us. This perplexes some folks, who, if they are coming from California, are invariably sometimes an hour late to a meet up. Has happened more than a few times, even when I remind them in advance of the time difference. After the ribbing you will get for being late, you will not make this same mistake again.
So a word to the wise, take this time change into consideration in your travel plans! If you are not meeting up with anyone, it doesn't really matter, you can be on whatever time zone you want to be on.
There is one exception (that I am aware of, there may be more) to CA being on Pacific time. In extreme southeast California, just northwest of Yuma, there is a place called the Gold Rock Ranch, off of Ogilby Road, 20-ish miles north of Interstate 8. Because they are only a short distance west of Arizona, they live on AZ time year round!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 6, 2021 11:02:09 GMT -5
Fossil fish found in Brenda jasper on RTH field trip to Brenda (AZ) in 2014. No idea on type of fish, and this will remain a specimen.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 5, 2021 22:41:35 GMT -5
No one is going to beat Diane though. Her fish is once in a lifetime. I found what may be a thousand dollar chunk of gem silica. Diane was with. I also found a blue MT agate and 2 fairburnes in the general area of Glendive. Mark, did Diane find a fish, too? I think you may be thinking of the one I found at Brenda. Diane drocknut (or was it Jim Wampidy? Lol) found a nice piece of that pretty blue gem silica stuff, also at Brenda. Was going to post some pics of the fossil fish, will try to get it tomorrow. Was trying to think of anything else that fits the bill!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 5, 2021 22:16:25 GMT -5
Almost three years old, and I just now saw this!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 2, 2021 16:53:53 GMT -5
jamesp, I thought you had puppies, those look like little piglets! They are growing so fast! Cute puppies. But then, all puppies are cute.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 31, 2021 1:41:52 GMT -5
Oh, sweet! It's been a while since I've seen one of your glass tumbling posts. You're really getting those shapes down. They are positively jewelry quality.
You should do all our new members a favor and link to that long thread you had. I tried to find it and couldn't. Maybe rockpickerforever can find it.
I notice a few coral made it's way in there, too.
James has had several long threads on tumbled glass! Here's just one forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/81817/glass-tumbles
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 30, 2021 16:43:14 GMT -5
I store and sort small slabs and cabs in old Chinese takeout bins. Just the right size. I just had one that was full. I needed something out of it and reached for it where I would usually put it. It wasn't there. I can NOT find it anywhere. I'm at a total loss for where it is. There was a big chunk of silver in there, too. It's driving me nuts! Tela, that kind of thing happens to me all the time, lol. Not just not finding something I put away in a safe place, but even as I am in the middle of doing something, I'll set a tool down, then can't find the tool. Argggh! I am sure I am losing it (pun intended, lol). If I don't find it within a reasonable amount of time, I'll go out and buy another tool. Just kidding!! Can't afford to do that. Actually, what I do is, if I can't continue without it, I'll move on to the next unfinished project. By then, the tool will usually turn up somewhere. Oh, there you are! I've been looking all over for you... How did you get in the oven? LOL. Thirty some odd years ago, before buying this house, we lived in a mobilehome. One time, Bob took a chub of pork sausage out of the freezer over the refrigerator, meaning to cut some of it off, put the rest back. Only he didn't get it back in the freezer, he put it into the cabinet over the freezer! Once it started to stink, I found it with my nose.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 29, 2021 12:08:15 GMT -5
2 more, that's all I could get done this week. Sodalite with Calcite, I think they should turn out well. Thanks again for looking. Those are great, Mike! The blue and white of the Sodalight with Calcite match perfectly with the colors on the old porcelain shard amygdule found.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 29, 2021 11:57:24 GMT -5
You can bet jamesp is a little out of practice in puppy raising. Good thing there are only five instead of nine, right James? But you've had a few years off, I'm sure you have forgotten how much fun it is!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 29, 2021 9:23:27 GMT -5
Well, she does kind of have a big head. I guessed GSD based on her markings. He does have a big head for sure! He's one of my son's dogs- he got him as a puppy and was hoping he would be more Pyrenees. But of course he loves him anyway! Sorry, Remus, don't know how we all started calling you a she. I did think Remus was a boy's name. Gorgeous dog, in either case!
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