1rockhound
spending too much on rocks
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Post by 1rockhound on Aug 26, 2008 13:58:28 GMT -5
I just scored 10 pounds of Morrisonite pieces and hopefully next week they will be able to go into my tumbler. I'm quite excited to see how these turn out as this is my favorite material. This will also probably be the most expensive tumble I ever do as all of my other material is self collected. Jason |
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Post by connrock on Aug 26, 2008 14:22:39 GMT -5
That's some nice lookin' rough Jason!
Good luck with it!
Many ,,,,,,I MEAN M A N Y moons ago when I was newer then a newbie I bought a LOT of morrisonite,,,,maybe 40-50 lbs of cutting material.Of course I didn't know the difference between cutting and tumbling material so I smashed it all up,tumbled it and gave it all away!!!!!!
If that weren't bad enough I bought more and did the same thing!!!
As time went on I found the price of Morrisonite going higher and higher.
The material I smashed up is now going for over 100 bucks a pound!!!
I think I have a couple of the tumbled pieces laying around here somewhere but I try to avoid them!
connrock
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1rockhound
spending too much on rocks
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Post by 1rockhound on Aug 26, 2008 16:23:20 GMT -5
I hear you on some of the prices people have on some of this material. I'm actually lucky that the mines were only about 60 miles from my house so there is a lot of it here and at somewhat reasonable prices.
Matter of fact the guy I bought this from has about 1 ton sitting in a pile on his property my jaw hit the ground when I saw that.
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SteveHolmes
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by SteveHolmes on Aug 26, 2008 17:29:41 GMT -5
Jason,
That is gonna be a sweeeet tumble! May I ask.. what did you pay?? and would you be willing to pick some up for me???
Thanks, and keep the pics posted as your tumble progresses.
Steve
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pebblepup
has rocks in the head
Succor Creek Thunder Egg
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Post by pebblepup on Aug 27, 2008 14:08:07 GMT -5
Wow! Who did you get this from? I would like to go purchase some of it. Maybe we could trade some materials after I get back from Hampton Butte.
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Post by Noosh9057 on Aug 27, 2008 14:43:12 GMT -5
Wow very nice lookin' rough.
Roger
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ejs
spending too much on rocks
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Post by ejs on Aug 27, 2008 17:20:20 GMT -5
Please post pics as the tumble progresses!
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1rockhound
spending too much on rocks
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Post by 1rockhound on Aug 28, 2008 2:17:34 GMT -5
I should be able to put these in the tumbler either this weekend or next depending on how my current batches are going.
"John"
I will be more than willing to trade when you get back. I'm still disappointed that I'm not able to go to hampton with you guys.
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