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Post by youp50 on Jan 8, 2018 21:48:59 GMT -5
That's funny. I am impressed that he would try 4 at once. Real hard to fix stupid.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 8, 2018 8:29:54 GMT -5
21 above zero this AM. Saturday AM was 21 below zero. I wonder if Al Gore could find us another 40 degrees.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 7, 2018 21:35:03 GMT -5
Great looking stuff. That 2nd photo is killer. Chuck That was the one I held up for my wife to see. Awesome batch. Last time you posted pictures, it cost me $100 for some crazy lace. +1. Much better to never look at Ken's posts. Cheaper, too. January 13 should find me digging through their ocean Jasper bin. As always, well done.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 7, 2018 21:23:28 GMT -5
In cutting some of the summer's collection, I found a nice piece of mooseblood. Anyone care to share how they cabbed it. Its softer than thingsI have worked with before.
Thanks
Would a Moderator please move this to creating cabochons.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 7, 2018 21:15:42 GMT -5
I like symmetry. Too many years in the piping industry. Even if I do something asymmetrical it need to be almost symetric. I do like your artistry. I could copy it, but never design something like those. I like it.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 6, 2018 21:36:23 GMT -5
I like blue glass, the premier find on the shores of Gitche Gumee. The best I have been able to find is a light blue gin bottle.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 6, 2018 19:30:00 GMT -5
The historical copper mines in the UP followed the strata going under Lake Superior, emerging on Isle Royale. The 'dip' of the ore was from 45 to 70 degrees on the Michigan side. The ore body tailed out to a flat sulphide deposit at White Pine. Just having a hard time with billions of pounds of copper being played down as dust in a few hundred square miles. With a fault line dividing copper and no copper.
I worked not long ago on the only primary nickle mine in the States. A copper, nickle, and iron deposit. (Cool looking pyrite ore) A sulphide deposit. The iron is essentially non-recoverable, I don't recall the compound, only that it would need to be electrolytically refined. So it is wasted, tailings. During a daily safety/production/mine update, the manager was talking about the deposit. The bowling pin shape indicates a high probability of the mother lode nearby. But also how the lava was flowing and turned a corner and the heavy metals settled.
I believe this earth had all the metals, gems, and rocks on it when it was formed. I do not understand how it was formed, just cannot understand how a piece of cosmic dust could join another and another and eventually get big enough to have gravity to add other pieces of dust. And then to organize the ores into different places.
I am quite certain that the copper meteorites are float or stamp copper. Stamp copper being the copper that had the brittle basalt, epidote, and feldspars stamped off it.
Now on a different note, the real gem up there is the dark copper to white colored porcelain type datolite. And the hybrid copper silver specimens. Copper and silver setting one on another. No heat involved in laying those two, or they would alloy.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 6, 2018 18:56:54 GMT -5
I have been using a 4 or 5 inch grinder. I have a neat piece of NoDak worm bored wood. I jobbed out cutting and polishing, it was too large for any saw I ever had. The worm holes really collected grit and rock dust. I have been using diamond pads since then.
The rock is pretty cool in that it has 1/4 inch bore holes throughout, but is fractured along a larger bore hole that terminates in a nesting? cavitity. I really need to get my better half's camera and get some images. Somebody failed to look for macro capabilities when he bought his last camera.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 6, 2018 9:12:07 GMT -5
That cosmic dust is arriving there is no doubt, I will not question the rates. The nature of a spinning globe would tend to deposit a homogenous layer on the planet. What force of nature concentrated metallic copper along the Keeweenaw Fault.
Some pieces of copper are still underground they are too big to extract. One of my favorite relics is a small chunk of copper 3/4" wide 3" long and 1/4" deep, flat on one side wavey on the other. Some mines had massive nuggets. This piece I have is the 'shavings' of men cutting the big ones apart.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 6, 2018 9:00:25 GMT -5
"Mutually exclusive" the question is 'why are copper meteorites only common in the UP?'
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 22:17:02 GMT -5
That image looks like it was worked over by a glacier to me.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 22:15:24 GMT -5
So how does one differentiate meteorite copper from float copper?
I don't buy into everything on earth came from outer space.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 18:17:16 GMT -5
Good, now repeat after me. "Must get larger tumbler, must get larger tumbler."
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 16:56:52 GMT -5
Anyone taking in/on the UP needs to spend a day or two at the Siemens Mineral Museum on the Mich Tech campus on Houghton.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 16:53:50 GMT -5
1. Quartzsite 2. The Geode Kid Collection 3. Arkansas Quartz crystals 4. Big Bend Texas agates 5.Flint ridge Ohio 6. Herkimer Diamonds 7. Hornitos poppy jasper 9. Morgan hill poppy jasper 10. Sterling Hill fluorescent minerals 11. Chapenite, Ft Irwin CA 12. German Agates, Oberdorf or whatever 13. UP Michigan copper meteorites (and the rest) 14. Richardson Ranch Thundereggs 15. Virgin Valley Precious Opal 16. Deer Creek Fire agate 13. Copper meteorites. Please help me here, I have never heard of such a thing. Copper was laid in the basalt along with felspar and calcite. I have heard some mines had quartz also. Some was moved along by glaciers as far south as Green Bay WI. Float copper. There are copper crystals. Copper hybrids, they have bits of silver on tem.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 16:45:09 GMT -5
One can take a hammer and chisel to finish the fracture in two. I know that bots need to be partially processed to be exported. I do not know if old stock bots are as fractured. I do know they are more spendy. I got some last spring from rocktumbler that were very nice, I went back for more and the second batch not so.
I have seen old stock at a couple of places, I may have 10 pounds or so to tumble, buying more seems unwise. Especially when there are hunks of mookaite, crazy lace, various jaspers, etc that I did not have. Did I mention mozambiques or banded Carnelians or even more etc.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 15:07:20 GMT -5
If you could see some of the slurries pumped through it at mines and processing facilities you would be amazed. Liquid sand paper. The only problem with the HDPE is supporting the stuff. Building trays is expensive. There will always be a use for rubber lined steel pipe.
Now there is a new direction for you to go. Build an autoclave and learn to vulcanize rubber onto the interior of common steel pipe.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 14:59:05 GMT -5
Some I've added along the way. Wanted to see if they would help move the Bots along. Some of the Bots have major issues. Lots of fractures? Yes there are fractures in botswannas. I used to work with a fellow that was a master of Mr Obvious style of stating the obvious. "Sometimes it just bees like that." I have been working at a camp this last summer. I expect to be here next summer. Kids are great, they see shiney as cool. Fractures as not there. There is a bit of crushed lakers in the gravel here. Them that look for agates manage to hit me up for a rock or two. I like watching their face light up and tear off to see Mom or partner or leader to show off their shiney rock.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 5:21:12 GMT -5
I have no experience with Tumble Bee. I would guess it's a far east import vs the American made, again. If I were interested in the brand, I would call KinsleyNorth. Ask their opinion, I have found those folks to be straight forward.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 5, 2018 0:05:16 GMT -5
And all of these reasons are why I like ethics questions.
Nano offense, unless its you are being stolen feom. 250 pounds out of your rock pile would get a rise.
Please do not think I am without blame here. I have hounded glacial till pits on Federal land and I have no problem pinching dead trees from the Fed. But my neighbor aggravates me to no end when he cuts fire wood on my land.
The trouble with ethics is we have blurred right and wrong.
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