Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 18, 2012 16:44:15 GMT -5
Still loading the new rough rock bin. The most depressing thing is most all this rough is too big for my ten inch saw so will have to be broken down before slabbing. Here are a few more goodies I especially like. Thanks for looking....Mel Found me a little pile of good Stone Canyon from the last CFMS trip our there. These will all fit the smaller saw.  Found a pretty good sized pile of Dryheads from a long ago dig I made in Montana. Here are a few nice ones.      Rose Agate from out by Ludlow, CA. I forgot a fifty pound nodule of this I left somewhere or maybe Lowell got it.  Some nice old redline Missouri Lace.  Some real solid Wingate Plume  Nipomo Sagenite nodule:  Mc Dermitt sagenite:  And finally a big TeePee Canyon about six inches across the face.  |
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SteveHolmes
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Post by SteveHolmes on Dec 18, 2012 17:12:29 GMT -5
Those Dryheads are fabulous! I am really liking your rock pile cleaning. The Teepee is super nice too. Hell...it all is Mel. Thanks for sharing. I sure would have liked to have dug Dryheads before they closed it.
Steve
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Don
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Post by Don on Dec 18, 2012 17:27:21 GMT -5
Wow!
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Mattatya
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Post by Mattatya on Dec 18, 2012 18:13:25 GMT -5
I have Pile Envy! I love the reds and oranges showing through the Wingate Plume
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 18, 2012 18:31:21 GMT -5
Steve: Back then it was $35 for all you could collect in 24 hours. It was summer so it stayed light till like 10:00pm and it was in the middle of a savage lightning storm. I dug pretty much the whole time and stopped only for a little food. Main nodule seam was under about four or five feet of hard brown limestone and the dig manager would allow no undercutting so man, that was probably the hardest dig I've ever been on. My part of the hole was pretty crappy too. Guy just over from me was pulling out big nodules even just under the surface and found three times what I did. He really had the luck. Took heavy picks, sledges, bars and chisels to get those rascals out of the matrix. There was surface material everywhere in the tailings and I wish I had taken more as it was kind of a lacy fortification material but I was too excited and wanted the nodules with the big fortifications....Mel
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stillalive
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Post by stillalive on Dec 18, 2012 18:47:17 GMT -5
Why oh why do I live in the uk?Thank the big man for Scotland-the only place where rocks of any comparison may be found-lovely stuff-jealous?-who me?
Thanks man-off the rocking scale-the teepee canyon is out there,they all are!
John.
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Dec 18, 2012 18:57:59 GMT -5
ive got teepee envy. id like to have a piece of that stuff.
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Simon
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Post by Simon on Dec 18, 2012 19:55:04 GMT -5
Mel, I'm in envy of your piles!  Stunning rocks as usual.  Simon |
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Post by beefjello on Dec 18, 2012 20:20:28 GMT -5
Man, whatta great batch of Christmas eye candy!!! Beautiful Stone Canyon rough, and the McDermitt is mesmerizing. The Dryhead to the left in pic 4 with the full fortification is incredible!!!  Killer goodies Mel!! :drool: |
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Thunder69
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Post by Thunder69 on Dec 18, 2012 20:39:18 GMT -5
Holy hello...What a fine lot of rocks Mel..Can't wait to see the next installment ...John
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keystonecops
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Post by keystonecops on Dec 18, 2012 21:18:57 GMT -5
Just send the biguns to Salem Mel. My 20 will handle em LOL Later Clyde
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elementary
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Post by elementary on Dec 18, 2012 21:30:29 GMT -5
Lovin' this!
As for the Rose...I don't think that piece migrated to my pile. I'm fairly sure I would remember it.
CFMS ran a field trip out there last year and people are calling the stuff "Christmas Tree" agate now. It's funny how old things become "new" again with a renaming.
Beautiful dryheads!
Keep them coming!
Lowell
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Post by Roller on Dec 18, 2012 23:15:28 GMT -5
nice stuff here
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Post by christopherl1234 on Dec 19, 2012 2:42:30 GMT -5
My oh my....that is some beautiful material!!
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Dec 19, 2012 6:45:00 GMT -5
AWESOME PILE!!!!!! Love the Dryhead!!!! All are really, really nice but LOVE the dryhead!!!!!!
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Dec 19, 2012 22:59:41 GMT -5
Mel,you been showing some great looking rocks on your rockbed tour! snuffy |
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herchenx
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Post by herchenx on Dec 19, 2012 23:49:55 GMT -5
Wow. That wingate is really cool to see. Thanks for sharing pics of all this great stuff.
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Post by helens on Dec 26, 2012 16:46:30 GMT -5
Holy cow... dryhead and teepee are nuts!!
I thought you weren't supposed to cut those because they're specimens? Now that I think about it, i can't remember seeing either dryheads or teepees slabbed (course, how many times have I ever seen pix of em anyway).
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Post by gingerkid on Dec 28, 2012 10:32:21 GMT -5
Hi, Mel, those are superb and need to be indoors on display.   |
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Stunning rocks as usual. 
