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Post by deb193redux on Feb 27, 2011 20:06:03 GMT -5
I don't do a lot of coprolite. The rounded nodules can be hard to get in the vise, and often there are pits or problem spots inside, and the pattern is not always stellar. Generally I think it is more interesting for what it is than for the quality of lapidary rough. Face polished pieces make sense. Anyway I liked some of the color I saw where this one had a chip on one end. I think the slabs are pretty good. Seem solid and no vugs. Maybe one or two little cracks with some mud/soft stuff in it. But I like the red ribbon running through it, and the bursts of yellow. not sure if I will slab the rest. Might face polish it, or might trade it. need to play with templates to decide how I will trim the slabs.
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wyobrian
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Post by wyobrian on Feb 27, 2011 20:18:36 GMT -5
Well if you trade some let me know what your looking for. i would like some dino poop
Brian
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Post by bobby1 on Feb 27, 2011 20:23:36 GMT -5
They are quite colorful. Looks like the dino had hemorrhoids. Bob
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Post by rockrookie on Feb 27, 2011 20:28:18 GMT -5
AWESOME !! --paul
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 27, 2011 20:42:58 GMT -5
thats a great chunk cool colors and pattern
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Feb 27, 2011 20:57:56 GMT -5
Daniel, those are beautiful! How can you be so nondescript & matter of fact about something as pretty as that? Or are you just not letting on about how excited you are about seeing something that nice inside that hunk of poop?! Is it kind of clear in the center? Wanna sell me a slice or trade for something?
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Post by deb193redux on Feb 27, 2011 21:18:52 GMT -5
Donnie - I just don't want to oversell. when everythig is above average, nothing is. it is pretty though. Why don't I send you the end cut (smallest slab in pic) and you can send something back my way when you get a chance.
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Feb 27, 2011 21:23:30 GMT -5
OK, sounds good. I'm sending your book back this week, as well as the agate. I'll put something else in there for you.
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Post by roy on Feb 27, 2011 22:01:27 GMT -5
nice looking poop
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Post by Woodyrock on Feb 28, 2011 0:34:46 GMT -5
Like most coprolites, you just never know what is inside. This one makes cutting the ones that just look like a turd inside, and out. Woody
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Post by amyk on Feb 28, 2011 18:19:49 GMT -5
Best Poop I've ever seen.
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Post by Rockoonz on Feb 28, 2011 18:47:53 GMT -5
Thats some goooood S***
Lee
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Post by stoneviews on Feb 28, 2011 19:06:33 GMT -5
Very cool, I have never seen poop that colorful.
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Post by mohs on Mar 1, 2011 1:25:14 GMT -5
for us older guys it always a promise & a hope daily
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Post by tntmom on Mar 1, 2011 2:42:15 GMT -5
I've been re-reading this post a few times over the last day....
I have no idea what to say, but they are too pretty to not say something....
The cuts you have done are super cool, full of color and pattern, just amazing!
Somewhere in my head though, I keep thinking... what made/caused those cool colors and patterns? What is the mud/soft stuff, and what is that rock dust that ends up all over your hair and clothing or anything else unprotected when slabbing?
I think those are absolutely beautiful slabs, but.... something about "petrified poo" makes my mind wander???
Regardless... AWESOME!!!
~Krystee
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Post by NatureNut on Mar 1, 2011 7:47:26 GMT -5
That's some pretty poop.
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Post by tanyafrench on Mar 1, 2011 8:02:44 GMT -5
That is a beautiful pile of s---! Who would have thought that people would actually be cutting it open, cabbing it and wearing it. Oh well, wonders will never cease.
Tanya
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Post by spokanetim on Mar 1, 2011 10:08:44 GMT -5
Not only wearing it but putting it in their ears! I had a request for copilite plugs a couple weeks ago. Yours looks better than mine and I cut 4 just to find something that didn't look like what it is.
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Post by rons on Mar 1, 2011 12:17:49 GMT -5
I'd have no problem putting a slab of that on my specimen shelf,,,great poop
Ron
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Post by deb193redux on Mar 1, 2011 12:26:02 GMT -5
That is a beautiful pile of s---! Who would have thought that people would actually be cutting it open, cabbing it and wearing it. Oh well, wonders will never cease. Tanya LOL. I follow your point, and get the irony implied. But I think our culture focuses too much on the exclusion and relegation to invisibility of many biological processes - not only scat but death and decay, or even where meat in the supermarket comes from. Pet wood involves dead and sometimes rotted wood. Dino bone, or any other agatized fossil, involves death, and in a way bone/corpse is as gross as poop. We have a history of early tool makers using bone, but we also have people today who pay high dollar for coffee beans that have been pooped out by a civit.* For many years before synthetic hormones were developed, many many menopausal women in the US and western world who received hormone replacement therapy were given substances extracted from the urine of pregnant horses. I think the important point is that whatever the organic origins, the material is now inorganic silica. Thus "sanitized" in more ways than one. In a way the original is thus less relevant, but also not. I mean I get more excited about a fossilized bone than a fossilized leaf. A silicified ammonite, with its spiral shape, appeals to me much more than silicified bog wood, with some exceptions. I am not sure I would ever want a fossilized tape-worm. Too macabre, but that might be just me. Not going anywhere in particular with this, just musing out loud. ------------ *Kopi luwak, or civet coffee, is one of the world's most expensive and low-production coffee. It is made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other related civets, then passed through its digestive tract. A civet eats the berries for their fleshy pulp. In its stomach, proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through a civet's intestines the beans are then defecated, keeping their shape. After gathering, thorough washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness, widely noted as the most expensive coffee in the world.
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