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Post by Condor on May 31, 2009 16:21:59 GMT -5
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Post by frane on May 31, 2009 17:24:01 GMT -5
That's a whole variety from one place! The mosses are really colorful and what are the black ones?
I never thought the white agates would be from there but it seems to have anything and everything there!
Great shine too!
Fran
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Post by Michael John on May 31, 2009 17:32:20 GMT -5
Hmmm ... okay ... these pics spurred some questions for me ...
You have a lot of chalcedony there. Now, when you're collecting at WWR, is the chalcedony more-or-less scattered on the ground throughout the collecting areas, but you have to dig/pry for the highly-colored stuff up in the rocks? OR did you have to dig/pry the chalcedony out of the rocks, too?
The reason I ask is that, at "Agate Road", all of the collecting I've done has purely consisted of simply picking everything up off of the ground. Chalcedony is all over the place, but the nice banded agate is much more scarce. Since I can basically just fill my truck by walking along and throwing the material in the truck bed, I haven't yet bothered with climbing the surrounding hills to attempt to tap the probable sources. But, since Steve and I found this place, I've wondered if the stuff I'm picking-up might be junk compared to what's still embedded in the rocks up in the hills.
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reelman
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by reelman on May 31, 2009 23:13:09 GMT -5
Nice colorful batch. I like the red & green moss. Great shine.
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Post by Bejewelme on Jun 1, 2009 6:47:44 GMT -5
Very nice batch, I like the yellow ones with the color orbs!
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Sabre52
Cave Dweller 
Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 1, 2009 7:58:12 GMT -5
Nice batch. Neat orbs in some of those too. I hadn't realized so much clear chalcedony was present at Woodward. The beds I hunted seem to run more towards the colored material.....Mel
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MikeS
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by MikeS on Jun 1, 2009 8:28:36 GMT -5
very nice batch!
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Post by Condor on Jun 1, 2009 10:00:40 GMT -5
Michael John,
All of those rocks were surface collected. They're just all over the place. Including the colorful ones. The chalcedony are quite easy to find. There's a lot of them and because they are white they tend to stand out more. No digging or prying whatsoever. Many times a you will see the tip of a rock and then all you do is poke around it with your finger or a rock pick and it comes out of the dirt.
Frane,
I don't know what the heck those black ones are, but the story as to how we got them is cool. Dorothy (Silverlass) and her husband Don (Mailman) were out on the east side of the ranch. Well it's well known that Dorothy is not quite the rockhound, but does love being out there. As she was sitting on her posterior against some rocks she picked up one right from where she was at and in her unique Bostonian accent called out, "Hey Dwan, whut's this?" Don knew they were on to something good. He collected a bunch of that stuff, and let everyone else know where to find it. They turned out to be quite nice agates of some sort.
Condor
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Post by mohs on Jun 1, 2009 11:28:01 GMT -5
That is some fine looking
rolled rock!
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Jun 1, 2009 11:39:36 GMT -5
Nice batch and shine Condor!
I'm glad to see that the pitted and vuggy stuff that I collected there is par for the course.
Chuck
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rockwizz
freely admits to licking rocks
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Post by rockwizz on Jun 5, 2009 0:25:49 GMT -5
real nice colors on those.
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jun 5, 2009 17:14:40 GMT -5
those are very pretty and your the king of shine, for sure.
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