birdseed
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Post by birdseed on Feb 22, 2005 12:14:50 GMT -5
Anyone know where I can get some of this rough...
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Blue Tigereye
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Post by Blue Tigereye on Feb 22, 2005 14:10:45 GMT -5
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Post by Blue Tigereye on Feb 22, 2005 14:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by Blue Tigereye on Feb 22, 2005 14:20:48 GMT -5
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Post by Blue Tigereye on Feb 22, 2005 14:24:41 GMT -5
Maybe Lake Superior agates would do?
The State's best known chalcedony is its colorful and beautiful Fairburn agates. Named after a community near a very prolific agate deposit in Custer County, these brightly colored banded agates are similar to Lake Superior agates found in Michigan and Dryhead agates from Montana. The color patterns are alternating bands with one of the bands always white. The colors that alternate with white include yellowish-brown, dark red, salmon pink, black, yellow, grayish-blue, and milky-pink.
The agate nodules range in size from about 20 millimeters in diameter to some that weigh as much as 20 kilograms. The nodules are recovered from the weathering of the Chadron formation in an elongated belt covering parts of Custer, Pennington, and Shannon Counties, with the community of Fairburn at about the center of the belt. Nodules similar to the Fairburn nodules weather out of a limestone formation in an area that includes parts of Custer and Fall River Counties.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 23, 2005 8:21:44 GMT -5
Is there a specific project you have in mind or will any "fancy agate" do? The rock shed has Bubblegum agates that will cut real nice (or even split with a hammer and chisel) that show some pretty nice banding and they are only 12.50 for 5 lbs!
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