transcendental
spending too much on rocks
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Post by transcendental on Jul 24, 2014 18:42:35 GMT -5
But man is it purdy! Again hubby found it in the gravel at work  |
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 24, 2014 19:28:48 GMT -5
Quality........I like it..
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Post by braders on Jul 25, 2014 16:53:01 GMT -5
Similar to some stuff we call spring cones around here . Always fun to go out n get if ya dont mind a little diggen and busting threw to get it !! Really cool piece ya got  |
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Post by snowmom on Jul 25, 2014 17:21:16 GMT -5
wow! (keep that man!)
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transcendental
spending too much on rocks
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Post by transcendental on Jul 27, 2014 20:03:53 GMT -5
Lol I plan to snowmom. We just got back from a mini vacation (7 year wedding anniversary, been together 10 years) to acadia national park... pics to follow once I upload them. That place is a geological wonder! Not much for fancy stuff... granite really but the forces that made it what it is are a marvel!
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transcendental
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Post by transcendental on Jul 27, 2014 20:11:00 GMT -5
Similar to some stuff we call spring cones around here . Always fun to go out n get if ya dont mind a little diggen and busting threw to get it !! Really cool piece ya got Where are you from that you find it? This one is baseball sized, I can't believe it was just dumped in the trap rock and layed out as gravel |
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Post by braders on Jul 27, 2014 20:19:25 GMT -5
I am from wyoming south west corner .
And ya there is some big ones out there with some crazy patterns .
Found amethyst in them as well !!
Do you know where they are digging this at?
I would go there n start following the bread crumbs for sure !!
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Post by braders on Jul 27, 2014 20:50:59 GMT -5
 Hope you dont mind the pic but to show ya how they are similar . |
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transcendental
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Post by transcendental on Jul 27, 2014 22:08:38 GMT -5
Oh my...wow! My guess for where mine came from is either tilcon or tomasso quarries, altho Connecticut and Massachusetts have alot of quarries so it could really be any of them and access is strictly off limits to non employees, they are large industrial scale quarries. This is tomasso:  This is tilcon:  I drive past tilcon at least 3x a week, I'll try to snap a pic next time I go by. It's kinda cool, my kids love seeing the loaders filling up the dump trucks |
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transcendental
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Post by transcendental on Jul 27, 2014 22:12:16 GMT -5
My only real option here is to have hubby keep an eye out while he's on the job, unfortunately. I'd love to sift thru their tailings (for lack of a better word, these are both gravel quarries)
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transcendental
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Post by transcendental on Jul 28, 2014 8:36:07 GMT -5
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knifegirl
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Post by knifegirl on Jul 28, 2014 9:27:05 GMT -5
Great finds!
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transcendental
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Post by transcendental on Aug 1, 2014 12:13:05 GMT -5
Ha! I must be doing something right, hubby got his coworkers involved in the rock hunt and they filled a bucket up for me lol  |
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Post by braders on Aug 2, 2014 12:04:18 GMT -5
Nice !! You should satellite view the areas around the site n see if you can see a source I have done this many times with great luck .. thats if tress allow you to ??
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thehp
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Post by thehp on Aug 2, 2014 15:21:09 GMT -5
Holy Moses in a basket - is that a NINE SILO Astec plant?!?!?!
( FWIW - I am the transportation supervisor for a Construction firm in NC , and worked at one of the larger ones in the state before getting tired of their BS and coming to this smaller company. I run about 180 dump trucks, flatbeds and water trucks a day - so I get to hunt in thousands of tons of aggregate every day too .. )
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transcendental
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Post by transcendental on Aug 2, 2014 16:20:10 GMT -5
There is a hiking trail that runs along the property line of tilcon. Been meaning to go up there at some point, but without the kids (not an easy task) and yes 9 silos, I wasn't joking when I said they move alot of material lol. My in laws live a couple blocks behind the quarry and they actually had to have guys (employees of tilcon) come and set up seismometers because the blasting shakes the homes in the area, once a week they come by to make sure the vibrations aren't causing damage to the foundations of the homes nearby
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