Finally some new cabs from me 3-27-07

It has been a few weeks, what with the belt problems and my trip to Mexico, but I finally finished a few, mostly from self-collected materials.

First a few more Plasma Agate cabs from the field trip to Clear Creek I took with Stoner before he went to Texas;







same one on a dark background:




Then a leftover piece of Lavic Siding Jasper from a trip last November;



And the stuff I found in Mexico.

this first stuff looked like dark basalt in the field, but it had these little pockets of lighter material,

(I need to dig a bit to find the picture of this in situ-) ah here it is;



It looks kind of like Llanite but without the blue crystals-

anyway, I was quite interested to find inside it is all like this:


Then there was this area that had lots of little geode and fire agate fragments,


here's a slice that shined up nicely;


And this piece of quartz/amethyst was just laying by the side of the road, I think I'll get a few more cabs yet from it;


And the final piece was not a field find, but rather the well documented generosity of the man we call stoner, I guess I'd mentioned once in the past how awesome one of his pietersite cabs was, so on our clear creek field trip he handed me a nice big chunk of the stuff. Ed you are too kind!