leaveritethere
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Post by leaveritethere on Dec 14, 2017 21:25:43 GMT -5
These are the pics I have on my phone atm that I was able to upload. I'll try to post more later. Attachments:
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leaveritethere
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Post by leaveritethere on Dec 14, 2017 21:15:45 GMT -5
The first two are the same stone. One of the more obvious pieces of vesuvianite grossular or vesuvianite. Most of what I've found has a rind on it. I'll try to post these to see how it goes before posting more. The pics of the garners were too big.
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leaveritethere
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Post by leaveritethere on Dec 14, 2017 20:41:17 GMT -5
Welcome from Michigan. I'd love to see pictures of what you're collecting. We have snow here now, so I have to live vicariously through other rock hunters. I'd be happy to but can't figure out how! I'm expecting some snow,and rising river levels around here any day. That's partly why I've been stockpiling rocks now before they are biried.
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Post by leaveritethere on Dec 14, 2017 20:35:56 GMT -5
Welcome from the bay area. What part of norcal are you hailing from? Siskiyou county, mid-Klamath river. I spent a good portion of my life o, the Mendocino coast.
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leaveritethere
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Post by leaveritethere on Dec 13, 2017 18:31:24 GMT -5
I'm sure that at another forum the thread title would conjure up an entirely different mental image, but I am actually just a pot head with a not so healthy infatuation with rocks That's why I've joined the forum; to get healthy. A couple years ago I became a rock head and gathered up a couple tons of pebbles and boulders on rainy days that amounted to what looked like a pile of gravel in my yard. I ended up getting rid of it all having never figured out what any of it was. When I was collecting it I thought d found everything from gold and,platinum to jade and rubies. I did find some,garnet a few times, I'm pretty sure of that. At any rate after quiting for a,couple years I've been overcome by the fever again. Last time I kept thinking all I needed was: A rock tumbler A wet saw A rock crusher Some nitric acid Etc. The list kept growing, but so did the pile of rocks. I never got the tools I figured would help sort it out and that would help to validate my suspicions that I'd become the richest man and California, but that part was always just beyond the horizon, yet there were thousands of rocks between me and the horizon. This time I'm going to try to build a tumbler and a flat lap early on. I have collected about a quarter ton Of vesuvianite (var. Californite) or something like that. I'm trying to be more selective and careful about what I bring home but I've got to say, at times it sure just looks like a pile of rocks so I'm stopping now until I find proof. Well, except yesterday I went out and found about 300lbs of almandine garnets in matrix stones which are included in that 300lbs as the bulk of the weight. The difference is with those ones I know what I'm dealing with, but they are so difficult to get out that it ends up as a big pile of rocks just as,much as anything else I find and bring home. Through ALOT of my Google searches I've found myself reading many threads at this site. The last batch of searches was on motors for building a flat lap and I was reading so many threads from here that I figured that I would join and would-be be get some help of my own once I got things going. At any rate, looking forward to learning and sharing with all of you.
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