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Post by fishenman on Jan 18, 2012 16:50:11 GMT -5
Awesome find Brian. You did a great composition on that one.
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Post by beefjello on Jan 18, 2012 20:08:47 GMT -5
Thanks everyone! Roy I don't know the vendor's name. I have a very generic receipt and they wrote down their space number on it, C-4. I think there's site maps for Desert Gardens that show who's where. They had slabs, rough and tumbles. Stef this stuff shows small micro fractures in the black lines as you're working it, more like minuscule pittings here and there. I was concerned from the start, but surprised to see it held up as well as it did. It's very hard and started showing a polish after the 600 belt. I appreciate the comments! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by adrian65 on Jan 18, 2012 23:57:54 GMT -5
Beautiful cab and material.
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Post by frane on Jan 19, 2012 10:44:19 GMT -5
Absolutely beautiful! You did a great job and I love the material! Fran
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Post by stoneviews on Jan 19, 2012 19:57:25 GMT -5
Beautiful Beef!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by talkingstones on Jan 20, 2012 22:02:33 GMT -5
I love these! Remind me of the cat tails in the swamps here. Beautiful! Cathy
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Post by rickster on Oct 10, 2012 23:59:07 GMT -5
Hi everyone, I noticed a lot of appreciation for the Yellow Feather Jasper. It is beautiful. It also is found(in the same area)in a great variety of other patterns and colors (even Pink!). The black dendrites are manganese (mostly)This is found on private ground and the owners were unaware, until recently, that someone had dug a pit on their ranch big enough to hide a dump truck in and has been hauling this beautiful stuff somewhere! At first, the landowners were curious about WHAT someone was hauling out, because the area is one of the most mineral and precious metal rich areas here in Utah. Some of our local rock club members met and talked with the landowners. They are VERY nice people! Salt of the earth. We decided, after they graciously and generously gave us permission to collect, that a couple of us would cab some and send it to them in some silver mounts. I sure hope that no one will ruin this special situation by tromping on their good will! When I figure out how to run this thing,(this web site) I will post some pics of slabs and cabs, if you're interested. Rick
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Post by Don on Oct 11, 2012 0:18:47 GMT -5
Hi Rick, did I read you right that someone went onto this family's ranch and hauled off this material? have the culprits been identified? I'm curious, since there was a vendor at Quartsite selling this rough last year and wonder if this was the thief, or someone from the ranch? What county does this material come from, beaver?
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Post by rickster on Oct 11, 2012 7:50:56 GMT -5
Don, Yes, you read right, someone went onto this family's ranch and hauled off a lot of this material without permission, and at least for a while, without the knowledge of the owners. We are fairly positive who it is. The owners came across this pit, big enough to hide a truck in, and wondered what it was that was being removed, and why. They are not familiar with lapidary stuff, but suspected it might be precious metals or something like that. The area is known for precious metals in it's history, as evidenced by the many mines in the area (Juab County). No, it wasn't anyone from the ranch at Quartzite.
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Post by beefjello on Oct 11, 2012 8:02:34 GMT -5
Man that's a shame to learn about this! ![>:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/angry.png)
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Post by Rockhobbit on Oct 11, 2012 9:33:03 GMT -5
It is sad what lengths people will go in order to make a buck! So very sad!
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Post by Don on Oct 11, 2012 9:50:27 GMT -5
So, is all of the material on the market today out of this stolen rough?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2012 10:26:24 GMT -5
I bought some of this material from some guy in Quartzite 2 years ago, at the time he was selling it as unknown jasper. I asked him where it came from and he was very secretive about it, but he finally said that it comes from somewhere just west of the Mississippi River. Pretty stuff, but very fractured, most slabs broke after cutting.
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Post by adrian65 on Oct 11, 2012 13:03:09 GMT -5
Dunno what Q means, but it seems to be a good place to find beautiful rocks.
Adrian
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Post by Tony W on Oct 11, 2012 13:37:20 GMT -5
Great pattern, great cab. Ok, and great cabber ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) T
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Post by QuailRiver on Oct 11, 2012 19:55:39 GMT -5
Very nice! I've always liked that material.
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Post by fishnuts on Oct 11, 2012 20:16:37 GMT -5
That is a nice cab!!!
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Post by christopherl1234 on Oct 11, 2012 21:27:56 GMT -5
Great looking material. Reminds me of some of the dendritic opal I have seen.
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Post by rickster on Oct 12, 2012 0:29:20 GMT -5
Don, I would assume (yeah, THAT word!) that it is probably all from that ranch, judging from the timeline of when it showed up on the market, etc, etc. If you look on ebay, you can find "avatar fern" jasper. Looks strangely familiar, but then whats in a name? I don't know where all the boundaries or property lines are for the ranch, so it is entirely possible that some of whats on the market is legit, although I would have my doubts. This material is highly fractured, some healed, some not. I have also encountered vugs with crystal "fuzz" in them. The material collected from the surface where it is exposed to weather is usually a lot more fractured than the pieces I found in the wall of the infamous pit(a few feet from the surface). I have seen pieces on the surface though that would weigh a hundred pounds or better. It is difficult to find any of the good rough in pieces much bigger than 3or 4 inches across, although it IS there. An old timer, with vastly more experience than I, told me he has seen this jasper before. He said they used to call it chicken scratch jasper (not to be confused with the famous chicken TRACK jasper found in Idaho). We did find signs of digging from a long time ago, although it looked more like some one started a cut in the mountain side for a road or something like that and never finished it. We found surface rough(float?) all along this "track" (about 100 or so yards). There you have it! All you need are the GPS coordinates. Sorry, But I can get the name and info of the landowners if someone really wants to go!
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Post by rickster on Oct 12, 2012 0:31:57 GMT -5
PS, Q means Quartzite, (as in Arizona) one of the premier rock junkie's locations.
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