grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Aug 2, 2012 13:24:34 GMT -5
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Aug 2, 2012 13:33:21 GMT -5
What a cool find! It is very pretty!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2012 13:38:12 GMT -5
WoW What a find!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have not found any thing like it here either. Jim
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gerard
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Post by gerard on Aug 2, 2012 14:37:15 GMT -5
That looks like stuff i got from Jason (legendary granite) that he sourced in idaho!
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rockingthenorth
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Post by rockingthenorth on Aug 2, 2012 15:09:01 GMT -5
love the color..Super find
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itsandbits
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 2, 2012 15:28:22 GMT -5
great colour and you got the cut good
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Aug 2, 2012 15:40:14 GMT -5
So purdy!!! Love that one.
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Aug 2, 2012 16:53:27 GMT -5
Very nice!
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 2, 2012 16:57:44 GMT -5
I have seen some limb casts that look similar. Maybe one go tumbled and transported to your area. Gorgeous moss anyway. Reminds me of Horse Canyon Moss....Mel
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Post by jakesrocks on Aug 2, 2012 16:58:46 GMT -5
Beautiful green moss. Find more. I want a piece.
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Aug 2, 2012 17:20:31 GMT -5
Thanks all! I'm still scratching my head over this nodule. It is shaped very much like other MT agate and Chert nodules in this area. Interesting that it resembles material from Idaho, I know Jim finds stones in Greybull similar to many I find here. With hunting river cobbles it is like a box of chocolates. There are innumerable types of rocks in the alluvial gravels that the rivers cut through, and every year I find something new. I slabbed the end I cut earlier, should get about six more from the larger chunk. So far it is fracture free, and solid. Cuts a little bit easier than most Montanas. Bill It came from somewhere out there. . .
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Post by helens on Aug 2, 2012 19:01:09 GMT -5
That's just wild looking!! But if there's one, there has to be more... just hard to find? I mean unless someone dropped it there with a load of fill from somewhere else, it's got to be FROM there right? It doesn't look like the 'typical' moss either, very neat:).
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Post by deb193redux on Aug 2, 2012 19:07:05 GMT -5
it does look like Idaho material
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Aug 2, 2012 19:29:53 GMT -5
I am thinking that the Idaho connection is good info, This location is 125 miles from the Idaho border. Helen, we hiked several miles up the river from a bridge. No roads in there so was deposited naturally. It is all in the odds and probabilities, finding more. Between all the volcanic, tectonic, earthquake and most recently glacial action have left stones here that may have originated hundreds or more miles away. But yes, I do indeed hope to find more, but will likely look at many thousands of stones before that happy day. Lots of miles of rocks to look at if one can carry the weight that far, while frequently wading. Every spring they get mixed up for fresh picking.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2012 19:37:13 GMT -5
I am sorry Bill but I forgot about one of my rocks that is similar. My daughter-in-law's sister went hounding with me and she found the rock. I just stole it from her then made her a pendant out of part of it. Lets see how they match up when they are close together. Helen, it probably is not from there. Most all the rocks in the rivers, especially the big ones like Yellowstone, could have come from a hundred miles away. When the Yellowstone is real high you can sit on the bank and hear the rocks rolling. It is not like a constant clunk clunk but you can hear them. Plus the glaciers pushed things around so bad it is hard to tell where most of the rock came from. If you look at the stones in the Yellowstone they are pretty much rounded which means that they have rolled a long ways. Jim
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2012 19:43:00 GMT -5
Now that I see them close together I do not see that much similarity other than the green is close and I think that when mine is back lit it will have some clear but not the same as yours. All I have left now is the end cut so I can not get much light through it. Jim
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