Good Earth
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Post by Good Earth on Jun 6, 2014 20:19:17 GMT -5
New material that I've been finding with a buddy lately. We're calling it Washington Harlequin Jasper. Very silicated, damn near fracture free, plus it doesn't leave as much iron oxide behind in my (freshly cleaned) saw! I've got some high hopes for this material!  |
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Thunder69
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Post by Thunder69 on Jun 6, 2014 20:32:21 GMT -5
That is some good looking material....Have you worked any of it yet.....John
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Good Earth
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Post by Good Earth on Jun 6, 2014 20:42:24 GMT -5
Not yet. Just got this first cut off the saw. It's been waiting for me to get my saw back together. Very excited to work it up though!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2014 22:08:55 GMT -5
CUT IT!!! woohoo! Looks very harlequin too!!  |
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Good Earth
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Post by Good Earth on Jun 6, 2014 22:38:04 GMT -5
Two Pendants made by my friend Frank (Rainshadow Beads):   |
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Post by Rockoonz on Jun 7, 2014 1:16:31 GMT -5
Nice looking stuff.
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Post by beefjello on Jun 7, 2014 10:30:03 GMT -5
Sweet! That's gotta great look to it.
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Post by Tommy on Jun 7, 2014 11:15:05 GMT -5
Nice looking stuff!
@shotgunner Scott thanks - I just had a seizure haha
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 7, 2014 11:23:07 GMT -5
Very cool!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 7, 2014 17:35:58 GMT -5
awesome! I love the dark shadows wandering through it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 20:33:12 GMT -5
@shotgunner Scott thanks - I just had a seizure haha Sorry amigo. I hope you didn't bite thru your wallet..................... |
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 8, 2014 7:54:25 GMT -5
Neat! Always cool to see a new material show up. Your rough pic looks a lot like some of the brecciated jasper out of Hornitos, CA but your stone has almost a dinny bone or pocket rot wood look to it.....Mel
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Good Earth
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Post by Good Earth on Jun 8, 2014 11:00:03 GMT -5
Mel- You are the second person to mention the Hornitos breccia. With all of the geology similarities between here and there, I'm sure that's what's going on in this one. If you went through my buckets of poppy jasper, you could probably pull out enough pieces to set up a step-by-step progression between poppy jasper and this stone. Pretty neat. A friend came over from Spokane for a visit last week and found an amazing piece of white quartz with large red jasper (1/2") eyes in it. Inside the red jasper eyes was specular hematite. Very impressive piece.
Thanks for all of the kind words about this stone folks! With some luck, I'll cut enough to share over the next few weeks!
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 8, 2014 16:33:59 GMT -5
Good Earth: Interesting comments. It sure does seem that similar geology yields similar materials even when areas are separated by long distances. My buddy Tom and I rediscovered one of the old Hornitos Brecciated Jasper( Sierra Jasper) pits and managed to find a little the old timers had missed. As you've said, there were all sorts of pattern intergrades. Some were straight breccia but others had poppies or snowflakes associated in the same rock. Some of the breccia actually appear to be shattered poppies which gives a lot of insight into how the breccia forms. All have specular hematite and some gold associated. Some, from the "stinky horse hole pit" was even banded like the banded iron stuff from back east by the Great Lakes. In another pit, the one my buddy called the Holy Grail pit because it was the source of the beautiful red and pink poppy back in the 60's. these were a lot of quartz balls and epidote associated with the poppies just as ou've described previously. It's always great fun to compare notes with another poppy collector.....Mel Here are a couple of examples to show what I mean: All from the same pit.   This one has tons of tiny orbs included:  Grading into snowflakes or poppies:  |
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 12, 2014 8:58:45 GMT -5
NICE!!!!
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Post by pghram on Jun 12, 2014 17:35:54 GMT -5
Great looking material & nice cabs.
Rich
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Post by micropterus101 on Jul 18, 2018 12:37:20 GMT -5
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