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Post by talkingstones on Nov 4, 2011 22:41:26 GMT -5
Ok, you're gonna hate me because of all of the photos in this thread, but I was prospecting over on ebay and found this bunch of slabs and had to get them because I saw so much in them even thought they were wet photos and entitled "Unknown Jasper" because they kind of prove my theory that all points in the universe are captured in stones, we just have to take the time to look at them. Anyway, I was telling my girlfriend, Janet, about them and after seeing the first cab, she made me promise to photo the slabs before doing anymore cabbing and tag her with the photos on FB which I did...and while doing so I thought, "Hey, I wonder if my friends over at RTH could help me to identify this critter so I'm including all the photos and hoping that you guys can help me figure out what this rock is... and please forgive me, I'm from New York ... well Michigan originally, but we tend to think in neurotic run on sentences here because there is something in the water, air or probably bagels that makes us this way after we've lived here long enough which I guess 20 years is. So here are the pictures... And please not that I used my homemade LB to photograph these... Almost there! So that's it. Any help would really be appreciated!!! I love this rock and just wish I knew what it was!!!!!! Thanks for all of the help! Cathy
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Don
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Post by Don on Nov 4, 2011 22:45:58 GMT -5
I don't know what it is, but those slabs are beautiful. If I had to guess, I'd say willow creek jasper.
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Post by talkingstones on Nov 4, 2011 22:50:46 GMT -5
Hi Don, I thought Willow Creek was only mauvish pink. I have some of that as well but while taking these photos, the same thought came to me because there are a couple of little bits of pinkish mauve in them.
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Post by Don on Nov 4, 2011 23:05:49 GMT -5
willow comes in a variety of colors, primarily pastels in pink, green, lavender, tan, white, gray. How hard is this material? the little bit of matrix on the one slab looks a lot like the matrix you find on willow creek as well. the more I look at it, the more convinced I'm becoming.
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Post by talkingstones on Nov 4, 2011 23:15:40 GMT -5
Not as hard as agate. It shines like porcelean on a 1400 wheel. Haven't tested it for hardness yet. It looks to be the same consistency as Willow though. The colors are pretty true in the photos and there seems to have been some dendritic action on the outside of it with a possible agate embedded in it. Both are visible in the shots of the one slab if that helps.
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