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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 4, 2017 7:20:23 GMT -5
Wow, Barstow is like ground zero for good rockhounding. Only limitation is many of the really good spots are way back in the boonies and require a long four wheel drive. Easiest places to reach are down along Hwy 40 off old route 66. You've got Newberry Springs for t-eggs, Hector Hills for agate, palm root and chapenite, Lavic Siding ( super easy to reach with any kind of car) South Cadys, Ludlow etc. I'm a fan of the north Cadys but that's a four wheel grind and you should not go in alone. Yermo behind the town dump is a good area for palm root, fiber and bog but the Early Man site has closed off some of the areas. You can go east of there along the hills though and find open areas or simply hunt along the graded road to the dump. Lots of rock kicked up by the grader. Almost any place you get off the road and hike in this area will have some good rocks but if it were me, I'd head straight to Lavic as it is easy and has everything in the agate/jasper spectrum...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 3, 2017 16:57:12 GMT -5
Yup, my favorite place in the high Sierras. The back country up there is really interesting but I think a buddy told me some new roads have opened it up a bit more to the tourist set. Used to be we'd rarely see anyone up past Dinky proper and some of the trout up there by Dinky Dome were huge!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 3, 2017 16:38:46 GMT -5
Nice! I really like the ones with the pink. I have that blob looking gray one n #4 all over the creek by my house. Some kind of flint pseudomorph maybe....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 3, 2017 7:19:51 GMT -5
Nope the Camp Ducey I'm thinking of was by an old hotel (the Buckhorn?) and was right at Dinkey at the end of the road at that time and right on the creek. We used to camp there every year at the campgrounds as we could not afford a cabin at Deucy sp?. Great trout fishing but we hiked way back in and went for Brookies, big Browns and maybe a few cutthroats. I even took the wife back up there on part of our honeymoon and we hiked clear up past Dinky Dome. That was probably in 1970 and Dinkey had changed quite a bit from the 50's.
The Dinky pegmatites are quite famous and those coarsely crystalized granites have a lot of nice crystal pockets. There are some limestone intrusions full of great garnets too. Lots of tungsten and sheelite associated with crystals too We found some awesome smoky quartz crystals, a mountain of rose quartz one time and some great garnet and dark green epidote crystals ( by Mud Lakes) but we used to hike miles and miles too. Beautiful country!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 2, 2017 21:58:11 GMT -5
Man I used to go trout fishing at Dinky Creek all the time. What a grind Tollhouse Grade was in those days in our crappy old cars! Also used to hike up to Dinky Dome and Cow Creek from I forget , was it Camp Deucy or some such name? Used to have outdoor movies there in the summer when I was a kid. My pop used to take me rock hunting up at some garnet and epidote mines and over by Exchequer Bluff for smoky quartz crystals and good rose quartz. My pop actually cut a lot of trails up there when he was in the CCCs and he knew the whole area like the back of his hand. Used to go swimming in Honeymoon pool all the time. Man that brings back memories. Haven't thought about Dinky in years.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 2, 2017 8:21:12 GMT -5
Very nice. Almost have a Prairie Agate look to them. Were they in a glacial deposit?.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 2, 2017 8:18:45 GMT -5
Nice! I like the flint but that yellow breccia is gorgeous stuff....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 2, 2017 8:16:58 GMT -5
Nice pics! Whatever you did with the camera, they came out swell. Gotta love them Rios. I have a really big cobble of that puddingstone I got recently at my buddies decorative rock yard. Really solid pretty stuff....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 2, 2017 8:13:04 GMT -5
Yep, there is a Zebra Agate from India too but without the lace. The India stuff comes from the Deccan Plateau and comes not only in black and white but in red and white and green and white too with the green stuff often being more brittle and more of a jasper. All comes from the same deposits so there are intergrades too. I was at a rock shop in Arizona one time when they were unloading some drums of this material and I was surprised at how many artifacts were in the drum. Big leaf shaped trade preforms or blanks just like I find on the flint quarry I own across the street here in Texas...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 1, 2017 22:36:05 GMT -5
The black and white one is Zebra Lace Agate out of Mexico all right. Nice example too....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 31, 2017 22:14:35 GMT -5
BOOOOOOOOO! No kids here so's I gets to eat all the candy myself. Yum! I love Halloween.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 31, 2017 19:11:39 GMT -5
Yep, I think your wraps are awesome. So, clean an not metrosexual/ girly at all. Of course I don't wear any jewelry so I may not be a good judge of it all....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 29, 2017 13:52:51 GMT -5
Super cool pics!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 29, 2017 6:02:40 GMT -5
To me, to has a Mozarkite look to it. Pastel colors and swirly patterns seem typical of that material....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 27, 2017 21:14:40 GMT -5
Yep, Graveyard Point with marcasite plume probably. I have some on my rockpile...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 27, 2017 14:28:18 GMT -5
Beautiful cab and great explanation. To me also, it does have the look of Nipomo sagenite....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 27, 2017 11:54:23 GMT -5
Scott, I am envious! This cold sucks and I am just so happy to hear my wife has another round of kiddie classes in a week. That should give me just time to recover before I get re infected again Whoop dee doo!.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 27, 2017 6:52:27 GMT -5
Yeah, what Pauls said. Tiger Eye is fibrous and sanding can loosen and rough up those fibers. You kind of have to treat it like jade. I personally prefer worn wheels for tiger eye rather than fresh sharp ones and light pressure with lot of movement so as not to tear loose those fibers. That being said, Tiger Eye usually gives me fits too. I love to tumble it but hate to cab it *L*....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 26, 2017 18:25:04 GMT -5
*LOL* What is me!!! And a cranky old dude, and an old coot, and an old geezer....and an old dude with a fuggin nasty ass cold or whatever the heck this kiddie germ mongering Typhoid Mary carrier crap is.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 26, 2017 16:00:57 GMT -5
Here's a random thought for ya. My wife and I are both biologists and know about germs and such and we have no kids. So why does the wife volunteer to teach a weeks worth of classes full of seven year old, snot nosed, drooling, sneezing, living petri dishes and bring home an awful upper respiratory virus which I now have caught off her. Dang kids anyway!.....Mel
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