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Post by vegasjames on Oct 21, 2024 2:49:11 GMT -5
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 21, 2024 3:52:28 GMT -5
That's A LOT of variety! Some of them look like mooka (impossible, I know) and a few look like chipboard rhyolite. I like the more yellow wonderstone.
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Post by whalecottagedesigns on Oct 21, 2024 5:26:23 GMT -5
Huuuuge batch with lovely colour in! Very cool! And agree with rockjunquie that some of it looks so much like Mookaite! Amazing that on opposite sides of the marble things can look so similar. |
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Post by liveoak on Oct 21, 2024 5:58:45 GMT -5
What a haul !! Too hard to choose which one to cut first !
Patty
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RWA3006
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Post by RWA3006 on Oct 21, 2024 7:06:40 GMT -5
Love the variety. I think you have a good eye for grabbing useful pieces and leaving the leaverite where it belongs.
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Post by chris1956 on Oct 21, 2024 7:52:51 GMT -5
Huuuuge batch with lovely colour in! Very cool! And agree with rockjunquie that some of it looks so much like Mookaite! Amazing that on opposite sides of the marble things can look so similar.  |
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 21, 2024 8:35:38 GMT -5
Huuuuge batch with lovely colour in! Very cool! And agree with rockjunquie that some of it looks so much like Mookaite! Amazing that on opposite sides of the marble things can look so similar. Especially when they are unrelated and formed in completely different manners.
Mookaite is actually a form of chert formed by a sedimentary process of microscopic sea creatures known as radiolarians. Radiolarians and diatoms form opals that convert to chert/flint. Mookaite also contains some opal and gets its colors from iron oxides (limonite and hematite) giving it its colors.
Wonderstone is a rhyolite, which is formed from a viscous, high silica lava flow. Also unlike Mookaite, which is a chalcedony (microcrystalline to cryptocrystalline quartz), Wonderstone consists primarily of quartz and feldspar.
I have some pieces of candy rhyolite and opal from Southern Nevada that also look a lot like Mookaite.
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 21, 2024 8:37:25 GMT -5
Love the variety. I think you have a good eye for grabbing useful pieces and leaving the leaverite where it belongs. I collected a lot of smaller pieces as well, and some thinner pieces that will be easy to break up. When I get a chance I will put these up for sale if anyone wants some to tumble. |
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Post by hplcman on Oct 21, 2024 10:16:41 GMT -5
Love the variety. I think you have a good eye for grabbing useful pieces and leaving the leaverite where it belongs. I collected a lot of smaller pieces as well, and some thinner pieces that will be easy to break up. When I get a chance I will put these up for sale if anyone wants some to tumble. Please, sign me up! |
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Post by pebblesky on Oct 21, 2024 11:35:30 GMT -5
Great variety! Especially love these pieces with eyes.
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 21, 2024 15:02:19 GMT -5
I collected a lot of smaller pieces as well, and some thinner pieces that will be easy to break up. When I get a chance I will put these up for sale if anyone wants some to tumble. Please, sign me up! I am going to send you a massage. |
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