Post by 88pathoffroad on Sept 13, 2011 20:17:47 GMT -5
I went to the Canby, Oregon rock show on Labor Day weekend as well! Here's what I got. (click pic for larger version)
A fairly largish Botswana agate from Dan Groah's booth and a Mexican coconut with a dark smoky quartz center. (I gave my last coconut away as a gift, heh) $5 for the Bot and tree-fiddy for the coconut.
Two unidentified VERY handsome large Oregon moss/plume thunder egg halves from a discount half-off table (the lower one needs re-polishing, I can see scuffs all across it, the upper one needs to have the cracks sealed and the whole thing re-polished), $10 for both.
I have NO CLUE what this is. Any guesses? It's a butt end piece, about 3/4" thick. The guy I got it from said he got it in an estate sale with no ID and it was the last piece. The silvery-black plumes appear to be metallic. $8.
A little creedite cluster, $6.
A hefty, ridiculously shiny chunk of pyrite from Peru! (the opposite side has smallish drusy pyritohedrons sparkling all across it) $9. The dealer had a box full. I was tempted to buy another.
Pink/red phantom "mushroom calcite" from China. (aka nail-head calcite?) Same dealer as the pyrite piece, and he had boxes full of the calcites. I picked this one because nearly all of the other pieces had contact damage, surface chips and smashed crystal edges. It fluoresces light pink/not at all under broad-spectrum UV light. Could be mangano-calcite? It's very heavy for it's size, and the back is rough-sawn flat with very little host rock remaining. $36. Ouch.
Last but not least, I bought 3 more nice clear DT quartz crystals for my fishbowl o' pyrite! (shaking the bowl causes the quartz to rise to the top, heh) $7.
That's it, I'm officially broke again! Can't wait for the Canby show at the end of October sponsored by Clackamette Rock Club, they almost always have the best "misc rock" buckets (2.5-gallon planter pots, tumbler fodder galore!) and CHEAP! Last year on the last day of the show the misc rock buckets were half-off, $2.50 each. I went home with 8 of them and had tons of rock to give to friends as well as cutting rough. Until then...
A fairly largish Botswana agate from Dan Groah's booth and a Mexican coconut with a dark smoky quartz center. (I gave my last coconut away as a gift, heh) $5 for the Bot and tree-fiddy for the coconut.
Two unidentified VERY handsome large Oregon moss/plume thunder egg halves from a discount half-off table (the lower one needs re-polishing, I can see scuffs all across it, the upper one needs to have the cracks sealed and the whole thing re-polished), $10 for both.
I have NO CLUE what this is. Any guesses? It's a butt end piece, about 3/4" thick. The guy I got it from said he got it in an estate sale with no ID and it was the last piece. The silvery-black plumes appear to be metallic. $8.
A little creedite cluster, $6.
A hefty, ridiculously shiny chunk of pyrite from Peru! (the opposite side has smallish drusy pyritohedrons sparkling all across it) $9. The dealer had a box full. I was tempted to buy another.
Pink/red phantom "mushroom calcite" from China. (aka nail-head calcite?) Same dealer as the pyrite piece, and he had boxes full of the calcites. I picked this one because nearly all of the other pieces had contact damage, surface chips and smashed crystal edges. It fluoresces light pink/not at all under broad-spectrum UV light. Could be mangano-calcite? It's very heavy for it's size, and the back is rough-sawn flat with very little host rock remaining. $36. Ouch.
Last but not least, I bought 3 more nice clear DT quartz crystals for my fishbowl o' pyrite! (shaking the bowl causes the quartz to rise to the top, heh) $7.
That's it, I'm officially broke again! Can't wait for the Canby show at the end of October sponsored by Clackamette Rock Club, they almost always have the best "misc rock" buckets (2.5-gallon planter pots, tumbler fodder galore!) and CHEAP! Last year on the last day of the show the misc rock buckets were half-off, $2.50 each. I went home with 8 of them and had tons of rock to give to friends as well as cutting rough. Until then...
