Sabre52
Cave Dweller
Me and my gal, Rosie
Member since August 2005
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 1, 2014 8:17:21 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Just this one this time as it was a hunk almost too big for my ten inch saw. My feed is set very slow and it took a long time to cut just these three slabs. This example shows how luck works in rockhounding. My buddy Tom and I were digging next to a manzanita bush in two holes right adjacent. Ole Tom, he found a bread loaf sized hunk of this in his hole and I found a little two pound piece plainly broken off his hunk. Ah well, luck means a lot in this hobby *L*. This is another find from the tailings of the Holy Grail pit. Pardon the few bubbles. I put a little soap in my spray bottle so the oil wouldn't make the water run off for my wet pics. Notice the cool distortion and offset in the poppy. Solid slabs but plainly there were a lot of geologic stresses at work in it's final formation...Mel Smallest cut with another color of toenails I used for sharpening. Gotta go hunt up some more of that stuff soon as I'm running low on sharpening stone.
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