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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jun 6, 2011 20:33:29 GMT -5
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Post by Toad on Jun 6, 2011 20:44:04 GMT -5
Nice. Especially like that one with the copper in it.
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stoneviews
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Post by stoneviews on Jun 6, 2011 21:00:01 GMT -5
Dang!!! You must have been standing at the end of some rainbow, Sweet Slabs!!!!!
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Jun 6, 2011 21:46:29 GMT -5
Great bunch of slabs!
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NDK
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Post by NDK on Jun 7, 2011 21:18:46 GMT -5
Donnie, do you have a name for this? Looks like Larimar to me. This is only found in the Dominican Republic. It's also called Atlantis Stone. I'm guessing the picture below this is whole nodules of it? Nice variety of material too. Wow you go to town when you cut! Nate
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Post by drocknut on Jun 7, 2011 21:24:48 GMT -5
Nate, I was thinking I saw some Larimar too. Nice bunch of material Donnie. That Rhodochrosite is beautiful. Looks like you had fun over the weekend.
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ibexian
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Post by ibexian on Jun 7, 2011 22:46:33 GMT -5
The Flower Garden variety Agate 4th up from the bottom, with the botryoidal/almost mammillary hollows is very florid (VERY NICE!). It has a kind of Condor Agate coloring near the topmost outlying bands; I like the white frog-egging going on in the rightmost specimen as well, kind of reminds me of what some Tamp Bay Agatized Corals are known for. Nice Larimar/Atlantis Stone as well (I learned something new today thanks to NDK)
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 7, 2011 23:59:17 GMT -5
Nice............Really like the fire agate.
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Post by paulshiroma on Jun 8, 2011 0:24:34 GMT -5
This is quite the haul! Cool stuff, Donnie!
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jun 8, 2011 7:08:59 GMT -5
Yes, that is Larimar. I have been collecting bits & pieces of it from Maddie. She has a little container half full of tumbled pieces of it. She charges me 50 cents a piece so whenever I come across some rock I want I always get a couple of pieces of the Larimar too. They aren't real big but big enough I can reshape on the Genie that I can use later on in a ring setting or maybe even a bracelet or something. My goal is to eventually get the whole batch. She has been digging up all of what she has at home & bringing it to the flea market, trying to get her house cleared out before the bank forecloses on her & she's forced to move. She also has a, I as guessing, 11-13 pound piece of leapard skin jasper. She says she wants to keep it, but you never know!!
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Post by Roller on Jun 8, 2011 8:16:36 GMT -5
thats it great slabs!
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jun 10, 2011 9:46:00 GMT -5
you are one lucky lady to find such great material. The Rhodochrosite is fantastic. Not to mention Larimar. I have been hunting for that for years, just too cheap to pay the prices they want.... lol mary ann
P.S. I received the slab............ Thank you very very much. mary ann
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