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Post by tkrueger3 on Oct 4, 2010 20:15:51 GMT -5
Slabbed this big rock today - it's really pretty stuff, but every slab broke into several pieces when it came off the saw. Don't know what it is, but I'm leaning towards pet wood on account of the falling apart. I took the pics of the individuals with them in a bowl of water. The group shot is dry. Most of the slab parts: Thanks for looking. Hope somebody can ID for me. Tom
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Post by snuffy on Oct 4, 2010 20:25:17 GMT -5
Tom, looks and acts kinda like St johns flower agate,its highly fractured and falls apart like that, but the pieces left are purty. Iaint no expert tho.
snuffy
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Post by johnjsgems on Oct 4, 2010 21:00:03 GMT -5
Not wood.
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 4, 2010 21:17:19 GMT -5
Appears to be Rainbow Ridge Jasper Agate from California. I've got a big boulder of it in the yard....Mel
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Post by joemojave on Oct 4, 2010 21:25:13 GMT -5
Looks like rainbow ledge to me.
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Post by tkrueger3 on Oct 5, 2010 9:09:20 GMT -5
I knew you guys would know this! Thanks!
Tom
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Post by johnjsgems on Oct 5, 2010 9:19:44 GMT -5
Here is an answer to a mystery. Raindow Ridge is now called Rainbow Ledge. I happened to meet a guy from the club that holds the claim and asked him. He said it has always been Rainbow Ledge but Mary Francis Strong got the name wrong in her very popular book. And yes, it does look like Rainbow Ledge material. I was thinking it had to be Texas material to end up in Tom's rock pile.
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Post by tkrueger3 on Oct 5, 2010 14:02:42 GMT -5
John, I think a lot of the rockpile that I kinda inherited with the big saw probably was collected in Texas, but there's a lot also that had to come from way out West - I don't know where all the gentleman went on his collecting trips. The vast majority of the pile looks to be geode/eggs and quite a lot of mahogany obsidian. I'm presently cutting up the more interesting-looking rocks and it's kinda like opening presents to see what's inside.
Tom
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Post by frane on Oct 6, 2010 20:12:12 GMT -5
Oh, those are beautiful! I always feel if it breaks then, you don't have to worry about picking the wrong area to draw a cab on if it already took care of the weak spots. Fran
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 6, 2010 21:43:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the explanation John. I've always called it Rainbow Ridge but then I always used the old Strong book *L*. That susplains it all right *L*......Mel
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Post by joemojave on Oct 6, 2010 22:30:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I am in the club that owns it right now and it is definitely rainbow ledge. If you collected there is the past it is not as good any more, they collapsed the overhang over the best section and nobody has felt like digging it out for years.
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Post by johnjsgems on Oct 7, 2010 8:49:30 GMT -5
I wondered if so much material was removed the ridge was just a ledge. Funny that Mary Francis put together the most accurate maps possible but couldn't get the name right.
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 7, 2010 9:53:46 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm curious about that too. I was acquainted with an old timey rockhound named Buster Sledge, one of the original Stone Canyon finders and the guy who mined out most the Berkeley Hills T-Eggs, and I'd swear it was called Rainbow Ridge back in the 50's. I did check my 1952 Calif. Gem trains though and didn't find any mention of it but in those days, most the locations actually had no name assigned to them. Maybe Lowell can check it out for us as I think the Ventura Gem club has archives going way back into the forties.......Mel
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Post by johnjsgems on Oct 9, 2010 8:40:17 GMT -5
Last Mary Francis edition was 1971 so mistakes go way back. The Ridgecrest club member I spoke with said claim papers are under Rainbow Ledge.
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Post by stonesthatrock on Oct 9, 2010 10:09:54 GMT -5
its really pretty..... mary ann
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