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Post by rockdunker on Aug 30, 2017 8:08:51 GMT -5
They all look awesome. That #16 though is way cool. I didn't think those crystals would polish like that.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 29, 2017 22:53:28 GMT -5
2 is very busy. I like it.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 29, 2017 21:19:22 GMT -5
Sweet thanks, I'll have to see if Williston had a bakery. Maybe the grocery store. Yes, yes! Donut shops and bakeries! We get our short (3 gal) buckets from a local donut shop. $1.50 for a STURDY bucket w/lid, and they even wash it out! cheap at twice the price. How can you beat that? The name on the bucket is Westco, previous contents included cubed apples in syrup, chocolate, lemon, raspberry, and other fillings. Even washed, they put off a wonderful aroma, lol!
The bakery I get these from is maybe five miles away, in Lemon Grove. There is another bakery that offers the same buckets for $2 each, but does not wash them out for you. Screw that!
3 gallon buckets full of rocks are not as heavy as 5 gallon buckets full of rocks. Old bodies not into lifting heavy things anymore. I know, you can SAY that you will fill the 5 gallon buckets only 2/3 rds full, but it never happens! Been there, done that! Jean
Thank you very much!
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 29, 2017 12:23:45 GMT -5
I've been loading plastic buckets. Need to round up some more. Taking another 50 pounds home in the rock(crusher)box. Maybe we can mail Rich the pieces that are left and maybe he can use the sand in his tumbler. Glad to hear about a ride for the yard rocks. Gotta get them home somehow. Keep me posted and I'll keep packing them up. Hit the local bakery's for buckets........Some just give them away or sell them cheap for two bits or so........ Sweet thanks, I'll have to see if Williston had a bakery. Maybe the grocery store.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 17:09:43 GMT -5
Also pick up some of the core samples too... Shows fossils in them......Thumbs up Great idea Mike. Not sure if they run diamond core barrels much. We didn't down in Utah, Colorado, or Ely, Nevada. Sure know that area's rocks and the oil field sure got you to some great places for it. Wished I had paid more attention when I was working in the patch. You copy? rockdunker
No comprende core samples.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 17:04:43 GMT -5
Sounds like a great place to break down when the weather is nice. Those hills are cool in that area. Helps break up the flatland I work in just north of there. I've only made two short trips to the area didn't look like too many people have been around there looking for rocks. Mostly oilfield and cowboys. I might have to cancel a flight and drive back through there sometime......Noah Noah Did I tell you. Think I have a ride for the rocks. All my friends got big trucks and a lot of them work in the Dakotas these days. Need to just keep that gravel pit you made into something that will transport in the back of a truck. Even heavy cardboard would work for the short trip/
I've been loading plastic buckets. Need to round up some more. Taking another 50 pounds home in the rock(crusher)box. Maybe we can mail Rich the pieces that are left and maybe he can use the sand in his tumbler. Glad to hear about a ride for the yard rocks. Gotta get them home somehow. Keep me posted and I'll keep packing them up.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 12:03:34 GMT -5
Darn nice haul fellows. missed this thread, what a gold mine of color. Well done. Thank you, it's been fun! Cliff hangs out like a cripple at his computer trying to guide me via gps to locations but we don't have a gps. Lol...
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 12:02:12 GMT -5
Sure is a great thread! I'm a big fan of prairie agate too. My pop used to drive crappy old station wagons and every time we went east, he'd break down in the badlands. I'd hunt rocks on the roadside hills while he hitchhiked into town for parts. Badlands petrified wood was probably one of the first rocks I ever collected. Your thread brings back cool memories....mel Sounds like a great place to break down when the weather is nice. Those hills are cool in that area. Helps break up the flatland I work in just north of there. I've only made two short trips to the area didn't look like too many people have been around there looking for rocks. Mostly oilfield and cowboys. I might have to cancel a flight and drive back through there sometime......Noah
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 11:58:27 GMT -5
I didn't get any of that. I'll go back and load a couple frsb's for you. Does frsb mean a whole boat load?? And a boat load for wigglinrocks too ? Flat rate shipping box 📦. Should have looked up the acronym before I posted. You can have as much as you want. I send Rich a dump truck load on me. I think it'd look nice in his driveway until he builds a wall or house out of it.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 0:12:39 GMT -5
Here's the pictures of the limbcasts you kept running aross. View Attachment DId you pick some up? For me and Rich. sometimes Dale, always wigglinrocks ? I didn't get any of that. I'll go back and load a couple frsb's for you.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 28, 2017 0:09:31 GMT -5
You should drive up here. We'll dress you up like a consultant and go look for rocks. I'll show you the spots I'm getting them and maybe you can sort the leverites so I don't end up hauling 500 pounds of yard rock. Need to learn how to window a rock without adding a door.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 23:19:59 GMT -5
Yeah the Montana chips are from the rock crusher. Found them on the well site.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 22:17:01 GMT -5
View AttachmentHere's those big wood trunks you came across today. Hope you paid good attention to the different sediment layers above and below so you can find this zone again in another area for different material and agatized too. Nice score. I took pics of the different layers. Not sure what they are. Some was Clinker and a coal seam. Whatever that striated sandstone was and some cool looking slate of some sort.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 22:14:16 GMT -5
I picked up some other kind of rusted egg looking material. Popped one open and it had like a grey chert inside of it. Left that area because the material I was finding was too fractured to do much with found the seam up the creek wash where it was exposed. Lots of agate, jasper and chert but it was all busted up. Tried to window some of it and ended up with a handful of pieces. Found that agatized wood right next to the truck on the way back from my hike.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 21:40:14 GMT -5
The ten bottom pics are new. Sure would like to polish the outside of those two halves and have a cool paper weight.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 21:38:26 GMT -5
Noah, rockdunker brought his haul of rock from North Dakota where he works during the week to play with my rocks. Prairie agates, moss agates, clinker, carnelians, wood, and great Montana agates. A lot of stuff Noah collects from a gravel operation and oil field work. He also does a lot of collecting out in the boonies. His rocks didn't fight and played with my truck pile rocks from here in Colorado.
His weeks worth of prairie agates. He's becoming a ruthless high grader.
The carnelian, one of which had a bluish chalcedony on it.
The clinker formed from superheating rocks when underground coal seams in ancient times became ignited.
Very intensively high graded Montana agates, all with great internal inclusions.
A hand full sample of some of the broken ones
Moss agates
And a get together of all the rocks and trucks.
The truck pile where I unload my rocks to pick through them to take in or leave out for kids who come to the nursery to rockhound.
Noah took off on me to go fishing in the nursery lake while I washed and sorted all the rocks. His best bass a 7 pounder or so he set the hook so hard the fish is probably in Utah.
My last stop of the day, I bailed on Noah to search thru the house for his family and I bee lined to the liquor store where I found a sign in the back which I promptly defaced by adding "to deport" . Sorry not politically correct here and cant resist temptation. grinning as always..
Last one is Noah guarding his rocks and his pink bicycle from Rich, sometimes Dale.
pink bike
New agate from an island Yellowstone River Montana
More new Montana agates
Wood JAsper ?
Another new agate
Dakota BAdlands Wood
Wood grain Badlands
Assorted Prairie agates, wood jaspers, wood, and montana agates
Montana Moss Agate
Montana agate
Montana Agate Noah broke by mistake
Wood Jasper ? Knife wont scratch it
Badlands agate dark
Hey now I didn't take a hammer to that agate. I did that to one my first week looking for them and gave up that plan. That thing came home like that after the lovely baggage handlers tossed it around. I thought I'd made it to heavy to throw. They showed me....
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 27, 2017 10:08:10 GMT -5
It's neat stuff for sure. Still working on the names of them all. Looking forward to recognizing more material as I come across it. I have a few down but it seems folks get more excited about the odd rocks I pickup rather than the expected ones. Like the Clinker, that one seems pretty popular. Noah, Updated your collecting thread and posted the pictures of the last 2-3 days.
Cool, thank you. This place a pretty neat. I'm not sure if it's more fun searching for the rock or finding it.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 23, 2017 15:08:43 GMT -5
Love that crazy looking chalcedony! And I'd be happy with those Montana agates alone. Sweet finds. It's neat stuff for sure. Still working on the names of them all. Looking forward to recognizing more material as I come across it. I have a few down but it seems folks get more excited about the odd rocks I pickup rather than the expected ones. Like the Clinker, that one seems pretty popular.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 23, 2017 15:02:51 GMT -5
Thank you. The past couple months have been a major learning curve. Much more of that curve to go. Can't wait to get back out there and dig through some more rocks. You've made it to the top of the curve! Excellent looking material. You've dialed it in! Thanks, it's easy for Cliff to sort through my stuff and take great pics of the high graded stuff. It's going to be a bit of work to find a home for the leverites.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 23, 2017 15:01:28 GMT -5
Three words.. "FLOAT THE RIVER".........The Yellowstone River that is...I have a very good friend in Sidney,but thinkin' if I should hook you up with him for info..He is an old Vietnam Vet,combat worthy,on the edge a lot... Once you get to know him,he is true blue and fun to hang with! Let me give him a holler,see whats up...They use to float a lot! Sounds about like the best opportunity a guy could have. Let him know I'm all ears and elbows if he wants to talk rocks and have someone go fetch some more. Thank you Mike!
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