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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2013 12:24:37 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2013 12:38:39 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 16, 2013 13:00:22 GMT -5
There you go, getting stuff on your hands again. It's a wonder you have hands left at all, LOL! Man, that stuff looks like Plaster of Paris to me. That's a lot of limestone coating. I'll bet it's going to look awesome, once it is decorticated and then prettied-up!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2013 13:19:35 GMT -5
titanium white!
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2013 13:45:39 GMT -5
This stuff is an oxyromanmoron in that it goes buck wild in color transition when heat treated. Lots of black-go figure.
Do ya like my white magma Jean.
Scott-ask Jean what decorticated means. I hope she is OK. She attacks w/words ever so often.
I still have slight stains from that miilibillipede SOB. When my skin gets dry it wrinkles at those spots like it is thin. Next time I should try Lemuring out. That was an extreme buzz. Like a mushroom high but way worse.
Wonder what the whitest agate/silicifications are?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2013 13:56:35 GMT -5
I speak coon@ss. I'll translate for you.
to those speaking english decorticated = decorated ya know? Like all prettied up!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 16, 2013 14:14:51 GMT -5
Scott-ask Jean what decorticated means. I hope she is OK. She attacks w/words ever so often. You are kidding, right? You don't know how to Google?? The first definition, please. I'm not touching that second one And no, I'm not going to respond to the question about your white magma, either. First you decorticate it, then you tumble it or cab it - pretty it up! There's nothing wrong with expanding your vo•cab•u•lar•y. Sorry, I've become a Google fiend! It's what I do when I've got "Too much time on my hands!"
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2013 15:19:02 GMT -5
You could read all kinds of things into the second definition.
Yes I could have googled it, much prefer the stimulation of hearing yall.
That girl did go back home a partial Muscle Shoals coon @ss Scott. If she stayed in Alabama a little longer she would have to get a green card to get back into Californicus.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 16, 2013 17:02:00 GMT -5
I have become proficient at utilizing Google by necessity. When my CRS kicks in, and I can't think of the word I want to use, I have to go to Google and find one. LOL! I do not attack with words ever so often, but instead are tryin to edjamacate you, learn you a piece. I stayed in 'Bama for a year, and that was a might piece long enough for me! Green card, I don' need no stinkin' green card!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2013 17:58:13 GMT -5
Ooopsie sorry, I just got back from the decorticifation procedure.
What a bizarre thread!
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2013 18:35:12 GMT -5
Normal front porch conversation. Teach him Jean.
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 17, 2013 10:54:26 GMT -5
Normal front porch conversation. Teach him Jean. First off James,that coral is totally off the hook!(Kids would love that goo)Now talking about front porch conversation,how about talking about what mother nature does with rocks,coral,fossils and minerals,which brings me to a topic of "Just imagine what lays beneath the Yellowstone Park area....OMG I bet our eyeballs would fall out of their sockets from the beauty that would come from beneath!!!" As for your coral James,I'm hooked completely!!!Every morning I look at the coral you sent me,as I type on my keyboard (one finger at a time) LOL... Totally totally awesome stuff............Thumbs up
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Post by jamesp on Jul 17, 2013 11:35:50 GMT -5
So you peck away like I do. I have arrived at 2 fingers, one from each hand. Hey, it gets the job done.
Your west is a total eye popper. Amazing spot on earth. Good for you guys.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2013 11:42:45 GMT -5
Come on guys, don't sell yourself short. I know you use your thumb for the space bar, just as I do! lol
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 17, 2013 12:26:03 GMT -5
Three-fingered Scott, LOL!
Mike, what is under the Yellowstone Basin is a HUGE magma chamber. The heat from it is what causes all the park's geothermal features. I seriously hope that none of us are still around when that decides to blow! It WILL devestate the globe, and wipe out most life forms.
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Post by My Dixie Wrecked on Jul 17, 2013 12:49:59 GMT -5
jamesp those are some sick rocks what r they made of looks like soap
i type with two fingers to
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Post by jamesp on Jul 17, 2013 13:22:38 GMT -5
They due lack in pigment or tan, poor things. Then they turn black and other colors when heated. Go figure. Call em albinos.
I found them right close to your Orlando, Dixie LOL. Another member lives in Orlando. Nice to have some Floridians on board.
Glad you joined.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2013 13:34:13 GMT -5
hi dixie! lol
Jim this is the stuff that bakes into black??
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Post by jamesp on Jul 17, 2013 16:32:51 GMT -5
Yep. Gotta batch in right know since noon, at 400F, will get to 600 by 9:00 tonite. Turn off about 4-5:00AM. Will cool by 3-4;00 PM tomorrow. These will be sawn. They have cross sections that are close in size to cabs. So that the cab can be shaped to the concentric color bands to some degree. It is the batch in the tub shown at start of thread plus some samples. The small corals were common. They way have the higher grade silicifications. The knappers like to get the big pieces.. I am finding my way and learning what to collect and how to work the stuff. I got some sphere sizers too. I was watching for your spheres Scott whilst down in little Cambodia. I know you give all your stuff away and mine is to the left of me right now. This is the toughest crap to break. What a durable sphere material. With this material i need to cook it. It is sexy heated. it is also the rarest coral from a tiny supply.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2013 17:42:18 GMT -5
The whitest raw material bakes to black! awesome.
Imagine what you could do with tennis ball sized ones. You could throw them to great effect!
It would be cool to have the crystal structure of that material looked at. For a silicate stone to be so tough & durable really makes it different than every day agates. Could be some good science there.
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