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Post by Woodyrock on Jun 24, 2008 2:17:08 GMT -5
Here is a shot of the Teanaway River "jade" which is really a blue green jasp/agate that my wife found this last week end. The middle sized one is somewhat less than eighty pounds, and the big one is pushing three hundred. I was the donkey for the smaller ones, and it took four of use to get the big one to rig by sliding it on a plastic sled, and get in. The middle sized one is in the twenty four inch HP (just barely fit in the vise). The next photographs should be of some slabs. This material takes a really nice polish, so we should get some nice cabs out of it. I believe the little woman owes me at least a slab or two. Especially sine I did the hauling, and did not find any of this nice material myself. Woody
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Post by Noosh9057 on Jun 24, 2008 7:48:37 GMT -5
Wow great find.
Roger
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 24, 2008 9:55:46 GMT -5
As Crocodile Dundee would say, " Now that's a rock mate!" Nice!!!!!!.....Mel
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Post by akansan on Jun 24, 2008 9:58:20 GMT -5
That is an amazing rock! I can see it nicely polished and sitting in my front yard. I can also see it nicely sliced and hanging from a neck...in a much smaller version.
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SteveHolmes
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Post by SteveHolmes on Jun 24, 2008 18:05:27 GMT -5
SWEEET ROCK FINDS! THEY ARE REALLY BIG UNS"! Steve
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Post by catmandewe on Jun 24, 2008 22:36:25 GMT -5
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH, now thats a ROCK!!!
Good lookin rock, too...................Tony
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sunrisedawn
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Post by sunrisedawn on Jun 24, 2008 22:47:04 GMT -5
WOW WEE! Thats huge. Looks like a dinosaur egg. Or what I think one would look like. Lots of hours of fun. Dawn
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Post by joe on Jun 26, 2008 0:30:51 GMT -5
Whew, that's a haul!
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181lizard
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Post by 181lizard on Jun 26, 2008 13:09:33 GMT -5
Oh MAN! Ya'll are lucky ya didn't spring a rupture getting them back to the truck!
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Trilobite
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Post by Trilobite on Jun 27, 2008 9:35:27 GMT -5
I'd like to here that 300# baby tumbling in a cement truck. ;D
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Post by creativeminded on Jun 27, 2008 11:31:20 GMT -5
Wow those are out of this world, they are beautiful. Tami
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Simon
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Post by Simon on Jun 30, 2008 20:18:05 GMT -5
Amazing finds, I'd love to find something like that. Gonna get some cool slabs outta those.
Simon
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jun 30, 2008 22:21:29 GMT -5
wow those are somthing else, i like big rocks but that maybe just alittle too big.
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adrian65
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Post by adrian65 on Jun 30, 2008 22:27:09 GMT -5
WOW, that rock is huge!, Don't cut that monster (it would be difficult to find a propper saw), polish it like Tony (nephrite) does with his jade boulders.
Adrian
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Post by Woodyrock on Jul 1, 2008 2:30:38 GMT -5
This one is going to be cut, and if it looks as good inside, it will be slabbed. Believe it or not there are of these where this one came from. For some unknown reason this materila only seems to come in pieces the size of a soccer ball and bigger. Most of this material is found in the North Fork of The Teanaway river (Washington state). Some is found above the river, but is harder to spot. The outside will weather black (even in the river), and when dirty is very hard to spot. Some friends found a big one last year well above the river, and decided to roll it down the hill to the road. When it got to the road, it kept going until it was in the river....where it still is today. Woody
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