Post by rallyrocks on Sept 19, 2006 1:58:55 GMT -5
Among these are some fire agate, a couple of pieces of "almost fire" agate, a pair of pieces of that mysterious purple and orange stuff as well as several pieces from an interesting chunk that steveholmes found while we picked around in the wash before we went into Oatman;
Fire agate is really neat but very tricky to cut, the brown and clear stuff that occurs with it is nice to work too, but lacks the magic that a stone with good fire has
Still don't know what this is- apart from being a bit porous- just the color and patterns are wild enough to outweigh the marginal shine one can get due to the porosity;
I'm fairly sure that this is the stuff that Steve found, its like a brecciated jasper with blue agate veins and these little pockets of white potch opal, pictures hardly do these justice
Then this little guy came from an interesting piece, I don't recall whether steve or I picked it up, but it seemed to have a purple and orange layered structure with this yellowish crust on one side- the internal colors were not like they looked outside but quite pretty anyway
Despite the heat, it was a very fun and successful trip for me too, and i didn't even have to break up any cliffs with hammers and pry bars- I just bought the rough fire agate off Don's bench, next time I probably will try digging -one day anyway.
Fire agate is really neat but very tricky to cut, the brown and clear stuff that occurs with it is nice to work too, but lacks the magic that a stone with good fire has
Still don't know what this is- apart from being a bit porous- just the color and patterns are wild enough to outweigh the marginal shine one can get due to the porosity;
I'm fairly sure that this is the stuff that Steve found, its like a brecciated jasper with blue agate veins and these little pockets of white potch opal, pictures hardly do these justice
Then this little guy came from an interesting piece, I don't recall whether steve or I picked it up, but it seemed to have a purple and orange layered structure with this yellowish crust on one side- the internal colors were not like they looked outside but quite pretty anyway
Despite the heat, it was a very fun and successful trip for me too, and i didn't even have to break up any cliffs with hammers and pry bars- I just bought the rough fire agate off Don's bench, next time I probably will try digging -one day anyway.
