itsandbits
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 10, 2012 16:38:29 GMT -5
different version of the same thing Weigh the stone dry, put a container of water on your scale that is big enough to emmerse your stone in completely without it spilling over, zero the scale with the container of water on it. hang the stone in the water emmersed completely without touching bottom and read the weight. devide the dry weight by the wet weight for the answer.
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 6, 2012 9:36:38 GMT -5
This is a found in the creek pink granite I did a while ago. It turns up a kind of salmon colour that is quite nice. Not too showoffy and lots of small detail so you could do most anything with it. Attachments:
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 5, 2012 16:37:42 GMT -5
ok so the black crystal I have is definately not hemmatite then because I flatted and polished two of the surfces and got black residue like I did on the diamond pad. Have you tried rubbing yours yet bluesky? Looking at yor pics again I can see the rust so yours probably are.
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 5, 2012 14:59:49 GMT -5
I tried mine on emery cloth and it just crushed the grit and made a groove in tile that's why I used the diamond scrub pad. Try those and see what it does
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 5, 2012 11:00:02 GMT -5
isn't hemmatite magnetic as it is an iron based material? I just posted a large crystal for ID that looks like the same material and it streaks black on a diamond pad, not red, have you tried yours?
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 5, 2012 10:57:30 GMT -5
i find a lot of different materials in my travels and a couple of weeks ago this came to my attention. it looks black but not jet black, there appears to be blacky/greenish tones in real bright light. It is a six sided crystal with no terminations, 3 of the sides are narrower by half than the other, three, it seems to be mohs 7quartz won't touch it and also the reverse. I'd appreiciate any help identifying Lloyd Attachments:
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 5, 2012 9:55:51 GMT -5
Some real beautys in there; looks like some would make good guitar picks:<))
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 5, 2012 9:48:54 GMT -5
Another great set!! valuewise I would think they would be worth more without backing. I don't personally think there is much difference in the colour of the stone with the black back if you look only at if the blue intensifies. Looking forward to seeing the rest I'm impressed with your wirework; the way you matched up the tabs because the stones are translucent and will see them is great. As far as the wire work colour; I find to my eye, the wire should cradle and compliment a good stone without drawing attention away from it, so together they look better than each by itself.
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 5, 2012 9:39:44 GMT -5
great find, and it looks like there is some colour in there for sure. I thought when I saw it on top the stove you were thinking of cooking that big "tater" up:<)))
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 5, 2012 9:34:31 GMT -5
I have researched the market over there for a number of different types of material from stones to tools and the one common denominator is their willingness to do and say whatever it takes to make the sale. It actually seems to be some sort of national pride to screw foreigners; I take that back, they'll do it to their own too.
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 2, 2012 12:37:13 GMT -5
:<)))
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 2, 2012 12:36:22 GMT -5
I don't know if this is a well picked area but a lot of knappers will rough out the stones on site because there is so much wastage it saves carrying a lot of dead weight out. I'm sure everyone that has used the site has done the same thing through history so you never know who last touched th peice you picked up
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Post by itsandbits on Jun 2, 2012 12:31:38 GMT -5
nature in all it's diversity is going to make at least one of everything possible, in our cases it is a matter of attitude and making the most of what we have and a lot of that starts with attitude. I'm sure he has bad days too but getting past them is the measure of a person; it seems he stands pretty tall:<))
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Post by itsandbits on May 31, 2012 0:24:35 GMT -5
this is a good place to start understanding
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Post by itsandbits on May 27, 2012 9:23:43 GMT -5
Well Warren, there's 2 huge volcanic events there each one up to 500 ft thick depending on the area you go into and then some glaciation and that layer of ash just under the agate is ash from another pretty big one and then the glaciers came back in and pushed things around some more a few times is my guess. Wells Grey park was a more recently volcanic; and still active, so I suspect that's where the ash layer came from
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Post by itsandbits on May 8, 2012 21:57:28 GMT -5
Thanks for all the kind messages.
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Post by itsandbits on May 8, 2012 10:09:20 GMT -5
Hi to everyone. I hope to keep enjoying the bits and pcs of information and conversations/discussions I have been reading for some time here and hope I can contribute at some level, sometime. I have known about and cruised the site for some time and recognize some members; hello, but only signed on in March, last. I live in south central BC surrounded by those things that stick up in the air and have other pointy thing growing the same direction. Those and water are my friends and nemesis in the search for rocks to smash/cut/polish and throw; the pointy things make it hard; allthough things do roll off them into the water, and the water makes it easy because it does all the sorting and tumbling for me Hope to keep learning by reading posts and linked info and as I said in the beginning; help in some way. Lloyd
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