jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 9:35:10 GMT -5
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Oct 3, 2013 10:07:50 GMT -5
WOW - that's top notch cabbing material you got there.
Chuck
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 10:26:30 GMT -5
If i can locate a more common source it would be better Chuck. it is infrequent.
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 3, 2013 10:59:29 GMT -5
All right, now that's the stuff that's really nice. Beautiful polyp formations in that one!.....Mel
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Post by panamark on Oct 3, 2013 11:15:56 GMT -5
Wow, those are nice crisp polyp fossils. Like Chuck said, that's beautiful cabbing material!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 3, 2013 11:21:51 GMT -5
Beautiful! Such fine details of the polyps. If it heats to coral color, what color is it now? Or has this already been cooked?
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Post by pghram on Oct 3, 2013 13:01:35 GMT -5
Really, really nice! That will cut some beautiful cabs.
Rich
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 14:11:38 GMT -5
Thanks guys. Many poorly silicified corals here showing polyps. It takes special conditions to get that good of definition with cabbable quality. Birthday Jean, this is probably the coral color that this slab would change to if it were cooked. You can see some polyps in this batch from this vein. Why the coral color after cooking is a mystery. I will cook a slab when the saw oil has dissipated/evaporated. It stains the rock brown but usually goes away.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 14:44:06 GMT -5
[speechless] rockpickerforeverwow.......................... just......................... wow..........................
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 3, 2013 15:02:41 GMT -5
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Oct 3, 2013 16:01:04 GMT -5
Very nice chunk you found there, James!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 16:29:54 GMT -5
Maybe a large deposit of those will come my way Donnie. I only hang out on a half mile area. There is only 100 miles left to explore. gotta be some down there some where.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2013 16:37:03 GMT -5
All right, now that's the stuff that's really nice. Beautiful polyp formations in that one!.....Mel That coral seems different than another i will photograph Mel. I will keep posting new ones as i saw them . This stuff from the trip a couple of weeks ago.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2013 20:59:07 GMT -5
jean you said I could never be speechless. In this thread, except for this explanation, I am completely without words.
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Post by ash on Oct 4, 2013 9:33:02 GMT -5
The detail on that slab is incredible. What do you do with all that coral if I may ask? not that it matters mind you, but I'm just curious.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 4, 2013 9:36:47 GMT -5
jean you said I could never be speechless. In this thread, except for this explanation, I am completely without words. Gotcha, Scott. I still find it hard to believe, tho'.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2013 9:47:57 GMT -5
The detail on that slab is incredible. What do you do with all that coral if I may ask? not that it matters mind you, but I'm just curious. Probably play with it Ash. It is like an experiment. And a place to go hide my head into. May use it in jewelry.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2013 11:04:55 GMT -5
No way. I had a geologist at the house and he called them something w/the word lites. Maybe just 'lites'. Not corallites but something else. Thanks . I need to know that. That will surprise a few people.
corallite (ˈkɒrəlaɪt) — n the skeleton of a coral polyp
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Post by grayfingers on Oct 4, 2013 13:10:14 GMT -5
Nice++, thought one had to go to Asia to find that quality! Looks alot like that spendy Indonesian material!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2013 15:14:49 GMT -5
The dull color is typical of most coral i find. If i find it w/color the oven is going to enhance it . And the indo coral is dull when found to Bill. They are old school coral cookers. I think they even cook theirs w/human flesh just kidding.But i do think they cook w/red and orange clays. If the forum would finance a trip i will go find out or maybe i should stay here. My cousin was a missionary in New Guinea and those folks were not to be crossed.
I believe Mel filled me in on the info about indo coral.
All the coral i find has polyps-oops- corallites-thanks Amy-but they are so efficiently and completely silicified they are hard to see. The trash has the lites from incomplete silicification.
Got a load drying in the furnace for cooking tomorrow. Will add a slab of this slab showing corallites.
I am up to over 20 colors w/the last load and am 1/3 done with all that i bought back. I figure 5-10 more colors yet to go. Just from the little stretch i go to on this particular river. I say colors but they are variations of only a few colors.
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