Post by Sabre52 on Jun 26, 2014 17:39:03 GMT -5
Well, the dang power feed overheated again so here's another installment of my poppy tale.
This part of the story begins with me out mending fence again, one of the reasons I sold the ranch, too much work. An oak had dropped over the fence that crossed the creek and as I was crossing the creek, I noticed a hunk of weird brecciated jasper I had never seen on the ranch before. Cut this stone from it later.
Figured, hey it has to come from somewhere so I got permission to follow the creek across my neighbors ranch but found nothing but Sierra Primrose nodules. His ranch ended at a dirt access road so me, being a real walker, I decided to hike on up the road. Started finding Sierra Primrose nodules right off but after a bit as I got higher, I started to find the breccia: Not quite the same but lots of plum and red and black against a white to pink background.
Then further down the road the breccia started getting speckled and looking like some kind of poppy.
This eventually graded into a type of jasper I named Cosmos Jasper that is all full of tiny poppies and snowflakes:
All the roadside and the pastures on both side were loaded with this stuff, sometimes in hunks so big I could not carry them to the car. Got permission from the ranchers on both sides of the road and pretty much cleaned it out as they were relatively small deposits at least on the surface. Took one guy a belt buckle and the other a bottle of good Bourbon. They said take all the dang rocks you want.
Kept exploring this road and later found a small deposit of this kind of poppy/breccia that was probably the source of the piece that started this hunt.
Also found a deposit of a red on pink breccia which was heavily fractured so I didn't collect much.
Then of course, further down the road still, I found the bonanza, the Strawberry Jasper vein which I've already posted about recently.
And of course, after all that, I'd still not found the source of the dang poppy jasper in the rockshop *L*.
To be continued.........Mel
This part of the story begins with me out mending fence again, one of the reasons I sold the ranch, too much work. An oak had dropped over the fence that crossed the creek and as I was crossing the creek, I noticed a hunk of weird brecciated jasper I had never seen on the ranch before. Cut this stone from it later.
Figured, hey it has to come from somewhere so I got permission to follow the creek across my neighbors ranch but found nothing but Sierra Primrose nodules. His ranch ended at a dirt access road so me, being a real walker, I decided to hike on up the road. Started finding Sierra Primrose nodules right off but after a bit as I got higher, I started to find the breccia: Not quite the same but lots of plum and red and black against a white to pink background.
Then further down the road the breccia started getting speckled and looking like some kind of poppy.
This eventually graded into a type of jasper I named Cosmos Jasper that is all full of tiny poppies and snowflakes:
All the roadside and the pastures on both side were loaded with this stuff, sometimes in hunks so big I could not carry them to the car. Got permission from the ranchers on both sides of the road and pretty much cleaned it out as they were relatively small deposits at least on the surface. Took one guy a belt buckle and the other a bottle of good Bourbon. They said take all the dang rocks you want.
Kept exploring this road and later found a small deposit of this kind of poppy/breccia that was probably the source of the piece that started this hunt.
Also found a deposit of a red on pink breccia which was heavily fractured so I didn't collect much.
Then of course, further down the road still, I found the bonanza, the Strawberry Jasper vein which I've already posted about recently.
And of course, after all that, I'd still not found the source of the dang poppy jasper in the rockshop *L*.
To be continued.........Mel