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Time starting to spend too much on rocks Making something positive out of COVID restrictions by learning to create jewelry out of stones. Member since September 2021 Posts: 154	Wake up to reality! Mar 20, 2023 9:07:48 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Time on Mar 20, 2023 9:07:48 GMT -5 I like them all!! How did you heal fractures?

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Post by realrockhound on Mar 20, 2023 9:30:18 GMT -5

Mar 20, 2023 9:07:48 GMT -5 Time said:

I like them all!! How did you heal fractures?

They healed with time. Essentially the rocks refilled with silica or something and the cracks heal themselves. So it gives the appearance that the rock is cracked, but it’s actually bonded as one solid unit.

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Mar 20, 2023 9:30:18 GMT -5 realrockhound said:

Mar 20, 2023 9:07:48 GMT -5 Time said:

I like them all!! How did you heal fractures?

You could always try faith healing!!

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Post by realrockhound on Mar 20, 2023 9:37:14 GMT -5

Mar 20, 2023 9:35:25 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

Mar 20, 2023 9:30:18 GMT -5 realrockhound said:

You could always try faith healing!!

That definitely works too.

hoolligan1938 spending too much on rocks Member since January 2022 Posts: 253	Wake up to reality! Mar 20, 2023 10:04:09 GMT -5 realrockhound likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by hoolligan1938 on Mar 20, 2023 10:04:09 GMT -5 Love the depth of the Hamilton Plume agate. In your post you mentioned some repairs were made. I assume they were fractures. Fill us in on your repair method. Thanks, Jim

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Mar 20, 2023 10:04:09 GMT -5 hoolligan1938 said:

Love the depth of the Hamilton Plume agate. In your post you mentioned some repairs were made. I assume they were fractures. Fill us in on your repair method.

Thanks,

Jim

Are you asking in regards, to the healed fractures? I didn’t do anything specifically to treat the fractures. Rocks did that on their own. I won’t normally cab material that has non-healed fractures in it due to its ability to break during grinding. I was just calling out or specifying that the rocks with what appear to be fractures are self healed. I would say it’s similar to brecciated material. Just on a much finer scale. The batcave did form a fracture while cabing. But it held together to I decided to post it because it’s unique for batcave material to have plume in it.

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