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Post by victor1941 on Jan 20, 2024 11:24:36 GMT -5
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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 21, 2024 10:33:34 GMT -5
This one in particular looks wicked cool!   |
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Post by victor1941 on Jan 21, 2024 12:43:27 GMT -5
Jasoninsd, I always looked for material in the rock piles that had an identity. I also liked mosses but only when they were individually easy to see in chalcedony and attractive colors.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 21, 2024 12:47:07 GMT -5
My favorite is the one jasoninsd pointed out. |
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Post by 1dave on Jan 22, 2024 11:22:08 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing, I like them all.
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Post by realrockhound on Jan 22, 2024 11:42:36 GMT -5
This one in particular looks wicked cool! You wanna know what’s really odd. I have a bunch of that Ochoco dendritic that has polka dots in it, that looks damn near identical to that. No dendrites, just black dots |
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Post by victor1941 on Jan 22, 2024 13:13:05 GMT -5
Realrockhound, I know where I bought material I didn't find but can also say I sometimes would find an oddball piece that wasn't like the other material. A lot of materialI bought was collected by the Mexicans in Mexico, others that worked on the ranches or crossed the Rio Grande and searched the Woodward Ranch area for material to sell. I still remember seeing the burrows loaded with coconuts and or cactus from Mexico being unloaded on the border shop and cantina in the early 60's. This was a different sight compared to my big city upbringing.
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Post by realrockhound on Jan 22, 2024 13:30:04 GMT -5
Realrockhound, I know where I bought material I didn't find but can also say I sometimes would find an oddball piece that wasn't like the other material. A lot of materialI bought was collected by the Mexicans in Mexico, others that worked on the ranches or crossed the Rio Grande and searched the Woodward Ranch area for material to sell. I still remember seeing the burrows loaded with coconuts and or cactus from Mexico being unloaded on the border shop and cantina in the early 60's. This was a different sight compared to my big city upbringing. I’m totally convinced that all of that is Texas material. Was just saying it’s weird that I have oregon material that has some oddball pieces that look damn near identical. Most of mine has dendrites. But there are some odd ball pieces that are white and have the black dots. Just always blows my mind how you can find similarities in materials formed miles and miles apart. |
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Post by HankRocks on Jan 22, 2024 16:39:40 GMT -5
Realrockhound, I know where I bought material I didn't find but can also say I sometimes would find an oddball piece that wasn't like the other material. A lot of materialI bought was collected by the Mexicans in Mexico, others that worked on the ranches or crossed the Rio Grande and searched the Woodward Ranch area for material to sell. I still remember seeing the burrows loaded with coconuts and or cactus from Mexico being unloaded on the border shop and cantina in the early 60's. This was a different sight compared to my big city upbringing. Victor I remember the folks at the Trading Post in Lajitas used to have rocks for sale. They were in small piles scattered around behind the building and some out front. It was a mixed bag of material that I assume were brought over from Mexico. If you picked through the different piles you could find some pretty nice material. At some point they cleaned up around the place and scattered a few pieces of the agate here and there. We went collecting and found a few nice pieces here and there. Probably still some to be found if one knows where to look. Back in the early 90's, my brother and I paid the row boat man a couple dollars and went across the river, past the small town Paso Lajitas and to the back side of the small hills behind the village. The variety and quality of the material there was really nice, most small pieces broken up by over active rock-hammering. Also remember going to the NE side of Needle Peak driving in Wells Creek in about at the dead Cottonwood tree and around about a mile or so and then to the base of the peak. Within about 1/4 mile of were we parked, we found vein agate, agate nodules, petrified wood, geodes, sharks teeth, fossil oyster shells, fossil bone, and some Indian tools made out of Palm wood. That place was a rock-collecting paradise. Unfortunately the creek washed out in one of the big floods and you could not drive to that side. Henry |
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Post by victor1941 on Jan 22, 2024 17:28:41 GMT -5
HankRocks, the Trading Post is one of the spots I looked for plume biscuits from Alpine/Marfa that were picked up by locals and sold to the Trading Post. I was also searching for a piece of thistle plume and good solid pompom in the 60's/70's. I also liked other colorful material from the Needle Peak area. Luckily, I had/have a wife that supported my interest in rock collecting and also reading a book while I went through a pile of rocks.
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Post by HankRocks on Jan 22, 2024 18:02:18 GMT -5
Was trying to remember the name of the gentleman who owned the Trading Post, Bill Ivey maybe.
Interesting bit of history as the crossing at Lajitas was one of the main crossings into Mexico for the Comanches when they went on their much feared annual raids into Northern Mexico, usually around the full moon in Sept hence the name "Comanche Moon". The US later built a military fort there in response to the bandit activity about time of WWI, Pancho Villa and company. The story is that George Patton was stationed there.
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