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Post by elementary on Feb 21, 2010 10:38:58 GMT -5
Incredible! Love them all!
That orange one, though, is like some of the sunsets we get off the coast here. Color me green with envy!
(So, when Mel and I tackle Mexico for the Agate/Jasper Index, I take it you'll be available???)
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Post by elementary on Feb 21, 2010 10:33:36 GMT -5
More Tampa Coral From Ventura Gem and Mineral Society's Museum from personal collection (much smaller and not as impressive...maybe should have posted first.)
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Post by elementary on Feb 21, 2010 10:31:49 GMT -5
Better Bullseye Agate from Goldfield From Ventura Gem and Mineral Society's Museum
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2010 23:11:24 GMT -5
New Mexico and Oklahoma & Kansas (see other thread) are the next states we'll be requesting images for.
`After these three states, we will be moving over into Kentucky and the states of Louisiana and Mississippi and Missouri. (I need to slow down the posts to catch up...Oregon and Arizona are right around the corner and I'm saving California for the last volume as it's my home state and it is the one state that scares me just for the sheer amount of material I have available for this project!)
We are now requesting images of material from the great states of Oklahoma and Kansas for this thread. The images can be of rough, polished specimens, cabs, or tumbled stones. If you have any that you're willing to share, please post with a brief note on the region and its common name (if it has one.) Credit for the photo will be assigned to your name or online title (or not at all if that's your choice.)
Any material that fits under the heading agate/jasper is welcome to be posted here, even if it is from lesser known locations. Please post general locations along with the images.
There are many places that would be readily known to people outside the state. We'd love to see samples of these. If in doubt, POST!
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2010 23:05:40 GMT -5
Oklahoma & Kansas, and New Mexico (see other thread) are the next states we'll be requesting images for.
`After these three states, we will be moving over into Kentucky and the states of Louisiana and Mississippi and Missouri. (I need to slow down the posts to catch up...)
We are now requesting images of material from the great states of Oklahoma and Kansas for this thread. The images can be of rough, polished specimens, cabs, or tumbled stones. If you have any that you're willing to share, please post with a brief note on the region and its common name (if it has one.) Credit for the photo will be assigned to your name or online title (or not at all if that's your choice.)
Any material that fits under the heading agate/jasper is welcome to be posted here, even if it is from lesser known locations. Please post general locations along with the images.
There are many places that would be readily known to people outside the state. We'd love to see samples of these. If in doubt, POST!
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2010 11:32:27 GMT -5
Welcome to the wonderful world of obsessive posting, excessively nice people, quasi-infinite knowledge, and the newfound need to photograph everything you do so you can share with the rockhound population here!
On the top we have the tumblers, cabbers, cutters, and designers.
Below we have the greeters, the meeters, the sharers, and the dealers.
Me - I'm the obsessive compulsive guy whose cobbling together a project of great importance (or so others say...) But I won't bug you about that now!
Just Welcome!!! Stick you feet in, check the temperature, and find what's comfortable for you!
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2010 11:24:08 GMT -5
I love looking at this magnificent material -this incredible material - love gawking at the red shiny stones with intricate patterns and incredible shine. I am entranced by the banding and the color, those perfectly tumbled red stones Those rounded, smooth shiny stones....those hypnotic beckoning rocks I want them ... I gotta have shiny stones...must acquire...
Hmm ergh, 'cough', pardon me...
I think I'm part crow...
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2010 11:15:39 GMT -5
Ah, it's stories like this that make me believe that there is 'goodness' in the world, that people are civil and generous, and that we find harmony when we work together, and that friends and companionship are wonderful necessary components of that great bonding ritual we call friendship!
Now leave me alone. I gotta go to my corner and cab something.
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2010 11:09:58 GMT -5
Yep, I'm also SOL - script outta luck.
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2010 4:18:11 GMT -5
60-90 forever 220 1 week 400 1 week 600 1 week AO for two weeks CO for one week Much happier with results. (Thanks Mel for advice) Too eager to wait for daylight and I can't help fiddling with the images so pics suffer and are widely different in size. Oh well. It's late. --Figured I'd work with my own stones tonight rather than the Index... Thanks for looking Lowell batch Cambria Beach stone / American River quartz pebbles / Hauser bed t-eggs Coon Hollow Chalcedony Mule Canyon Jasper Rose Quartz / Mariposa Poppy -(Firefly or Cosmos, I get them mixed up...) Material from the flats at the Hauser Beds - Has no name so give me one if you wish...
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2010 0:37:44 GMT -5
That's IT! Egad, can't believe I forgot that.
It's not the best piece. There are a couple rings. I'll reshoot and post with a better view.
Thanks!
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2010 22:59:28 GMT -5
Well, let's see what I can post here. I don't think I can match some of this stuff, but... 1st - what I think I know: Woodward Ranch Peanut Agate? Nodules from Bishop ranch or alpine (Mel will know): Thanks for watching and checking up on me! Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2010 22:43:46 GMT -5
Goldfield Gem Claims Not sure if this it a rhyolite or something else. Got it from a friend who's since moved away to NM. If any of you know, please enlighten me! Thanks, Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2010 10:27:43 GMT -5
For those who have seen this post in the other board, I apologize. I'm finding some people read one or two threads for the most part and have missed what Mel and I have been trying to launch with the help of a TON of people! A few of us got together and talked about how there was no good publication for IDing American material (which many of you cabbers utilize), so we decided we didn't have enough going on in our lives and should start one. The American Agate/Jasper Database is a free download project edited by a couple of us but produced by any Rockhound who is willing to allow us their photos to us. These files are not static, but will be updated constantly (we'll update once most of the West is put out in volumes. The rest of this post is as it is in the General Board. Again, I apologize for doubling up posts. The second index has been put together and is ready to be launched. It's 34 pages long. The vast majority of material is from Wyoming. We have not had much luck getting Montana material (we have three entries.) To download the newest volume goto: www.4shared.com/file/224404408/51585e57/Agate_Index_Vol_2.htmlIt is over 10 MB so it is 3 times the size of Volume 1 in memory. VOLUME 1: Utah and Colorado is still here. (I have material to add, but I'm waiting to put out the updated version.) www.4shared.com/file/221879833/810dc669/Agate_Index_Vol_1.htmlTO the many people here have given us permission to 'poach' their pictures for use in the database, THANK YOU! SO: Please please please - if you have anything to add, post, send it to me via email, or just drop me an IM saying that I can use your photos. (See below.) Please review the Index and post your comments. It needs to work for you and changes are easier made today than when this thing is twice as long or there are 8 or 10 indexes already circulating. I really want to get word of mouth going on this. This is free - meant to be free - and it's designed to be functional (and hopefully pretty to look at), and it's to be built by YOU! My next step is this: I edit the Ventura Gem and Mineral Newsletter which gets me access to a ton of gem club editor contacts across the US. Guess who I'll be submitting articles to in the next month or so asking for material? I want this to grow! (Heck, and it's free! When else are you going to be able to get anything for free in this world that's actually functional?) So - final word today, I promise - if you don't have time to post and you are willing to let me 'poach' the photos you have already posted in other threads, then just send me an IM or reply to this thread and give permission for me to use your images, essentially mention that I can copy your images, and I'll add them to the database. For example, SteveHolmes said I could copy anything he's added, so I've gone through the cabochon listings and specimen listings and 'poached' what he had up. Saves him time and we get the photos included on the database. Thanks to all who's given material, given advice, given encouragement, or just have been following these posts. Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 18, 2010 5:06:29 GMT -5
Note - Added Volume 2
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Post by elementary on Feb 17, 2010 19:37:38 GMT -5
Texas in all its varieties (see other thread) are the next areas I'll be requesting images for.
(The next states to be requested will be New Mexico and a mix Oklahoma/Kansas.)
We are now requesting images of material from the great states of TEXAS for this thread. For this thread we're looking for non-fossil material that originated in Texas outside the ranchlands of the other thread. If you are not sure about where a location might be, post it here along with your information. The images can be of rough, polished specimens, cabs, or tumbled stones. If you have any that you're willing to share, please post with a brief note on the region and its common name (if it has one.) Credit for the photo will be assigned to your name or online title (or not at all if that's your choice.)
Any material that fits under the heading agate/jasper/chert is welcome to be posted here, even if it is from lesser known locations.
There are many places that would be readily known to people outside the state. We'd love to see samples of these. If in doubt, POST!
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Post by elementary on Feb 17, 2010 19:35:18 GMT -5
Texas in all its varieties (see other thread) are the next areas I'll be requesting images for.
(The next states to be requested will be New Mexico and a mix Oklahoma/Kansas.)
We are now requesting images of material from the great states of TEXAS for this thread. For this thread we're looking for material that originated in the ranchlands around Marfa, Alpine, and Big Bend Park. This includes Needle Peak material, Woodward Ranch, Anderson Ranch, Henderson Ranch, Bishop Ranch - essentially the area between the Rio Grande/Big Bend Region and Highway 90. The images can be of rough, polished specimens, cabs, or tumbled stones. If you have any that you're willing to share, please post with a brief note on the region and its common name (if it has one.) Credit for the photo will be assigned to your name or online title (or not at all if that's your choice.)
Any material that fits under the heading agate/jasper/chert is welcome to be posted here, even if it is from lesser known locations.
There are many places that would be readily known to people outside the state. We'd love to see samples of these. If in doubt, POST!
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Post by elementary on Feb 17, 2010 19:27:14 GMT -5
Texas in all its varieties (see other threads) is the next material I'll be requesting images for.
(The next states to be requested will be New Mexico and a mix Oklahoma/Kansas.)
We are now requesting images of material from the great states of TEXAS for this thread. For this thread we're looking for petrified material and agatized fossil material. (The Lambert Ranch Crinoid Limestone is welcome as a peripheral material of interest). The images can be of rough, polished specimens, cabs, or tumbled stones. If you have any that you're willing to share, please post with a brief note on the region and its common name (if it has one.) Credit for the photo will be assigned to your name or online title (or not at all if that's your choice.)
Any material that fits under the heading agate/jasper/chert and has a fossil content is welcome to be posted here, even if it is from lesser known locations.
There are many places that would be readily known to people outside the state. We'd love to see samples of these. If in doubt, POST!
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Post by elementary on Feb 16, 2010 22:33:32 GMT -5
C c c c c c caaaa nnnn' tttttt Speakk!
Amazing and in awe!
thanks for sharing!
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 15, 2010 23:45:39 GMT -5
What isn't mentioned is that there was a nice picnic lunch on the table when the storm hit, and now we have wet, starving, standing people who need aid...
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