grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Nov 26, 2013 10:11:54 GMT -5
Starting to re-organize and sort out my rock mess, I am not a tidy hound. When spring comes I never seem to get time to properly put stuff away for summer. Then fall comes and I have fresh finds to sort out too. Anyway, took a break and cut a couple small nodules from this year's hounding. A fun brecciated piece that looked quite plain on the surface, just a tad of the red was showing. A but fractured, but should get a couple nice shapes to polish. This was a strange one, plain brown gritty surface, seems hard, but not as hard as the usual agates and jaspers found in this area. The little dark lines are solid.
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SirRoxalot
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Post by SirRoxalot on Nov 26, 2013 10:26:46 GMT -5
Neat stuff. Is the second one "unakite", green epidote in red feldspar? Would slice quite a bit easier than a jasper.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2013 10:29:56 GMT -5
No clue. The glaciers missed those I guess. Nice rock though. Jim
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Post by mohs on Nov 26, 2013 10:52:30 GMT -5
Never enough time to sort rocks ? nature way I found some similar red & green in Phoenix who knows where it came from I look forward to polishing up a rock'n heart there is this red head w/ green eyes on my route well that another story mostly
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Nov 26, 2013 10:57:09 GMT -5
Neat stuff. Is the second one "unakite", green epidote in red feldspar? Would slice quite a bit easier than a jasper. I have no idea, I am far from being able to identify the different minerals and such that are possible. The "feel" of the rock while cutting was very similar to jasper/agate from the southwest. (hard, but easier to cut) Jim, That is the wild thing about collecting in an area that has been carved, jumbled, tumbled, shook and cooked and taken from sea bed to mountain top. One never knows what 'one off' piece you might find. I can say that I have benefited greatly from the posts and photos from other parts of the west/southwest, in that I am now checking out rocks that I would have not noticed before seeing the outer surfaces of finds from those locals.
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Post by pghram on Nov 26, 2013 11:46:20 GMT -5
Nice slabs, I really like the subtle colors of the first set.
Rich
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bsky4463
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Post by bsky4463 on Nov 26, 2013 23:35:40 GMT -5
No doubt full on cornucopia of rocks....hard to leave any behind. Nice finds. M and I found some yellow (presumably) jasper down at fair weather ramp yesterday. Looking forward to cutting into to it this week. Hopefully not too fractured up. Cheers.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 26, 2013 23:55:40 GMT -5
Unique blend of colors and sizes brewed up in the breccia. They are interesting as ever. Many times the chunks in the breccia are breccias and the those chunks have breccias.
The solid black line material is flat pretty.
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Post by Tonyterner on Nov 29, 2013 8:26:27 GMT -5
Both of those are really pretty.
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