jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 30, 2014 17:39:22 GMT -5
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 30, 2014 17:54:22 GMT -5
Wow, cool colors. Those first pictures look like some kind of fruit with a rind, sort of like a melon.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 30, 2014 18:03:19 GMT -5
Wow, cool colors. Those first pictures look like some kind of fruit with a rind, sort of like a melon. You never know what the heat will do Rob. Most of them started out brownish orange, kinda boring.
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Aug 30, 2014 18:26:04 GMT -5
Some crazy colors in that batch, James! How cool that the coral surprises seem endless.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2014 18:30:03 GMT -5
crazy lace coral
Dang you have every agate species there all inside dead corals. We gotta travel thousands of miles... you just get in your boat.
Thanks for sharing.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 30, 2014 19:39:50 GMT -5
Some crazy colors in that batch, James! How cool that the coral surprises seem endless. Those surprised me Bill.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 30, 2014 19:49:05 GMT -5
crazy lace coral Dang you have every agate species there all inside dead corals. We gotta travel thousands of miles... you just get in your boat. Thanks for sharing. This would be the hole I want to go back to. I was not here long.
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spiritstone
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Post by spiritstone on Aug 30, 2014 19:52:51 GMT -5
Drooling!
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vugs
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Post by vugs on Aug 30, 2014 21:08:25 GMT -5
Awesome.. Cant get enough of this stuff. Its a whole other ballgame.. Scuba diving, snakes, heat treating. This city slicker wants in..
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 30, 2014 21:29:26 GMT -5
Awesome.. Cant get enough of this stuff. Its a whole other ballgame.. Scuba diving, snakes, heat treating. This city slicker wants in.. Seemed like every one was a good bit different after being heated.Only brought home a few. Not next visit.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Aug 30, 2014 22:51:44 GMT -5
From the look of it, that new spot may well become a favorite spot. Man, that stuff is nice.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 31, 2014 7:19:55 GMT -5
From the look of it, that new spot may well become a favorite spot. Man, that stuff is nice. I found a few corals in a road cut above these up on the hill above the river a few years ago. A fellow told me about a vein in the river close to the road cut. So last trip I made a long boat trip to the river spot he mentioned since it was inaccessible from the road cut. He told me well. The road cut had rich colored clay, and the clay vein continued into the river. I guess it pays to listen.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 31, 2014 7:50:56 GMT -5
Some crazy colors in that batch, James! How cool that the coral surprises seem endless. Heating the grainy stuff alters it to glassy. Odd that some of the grainy junky stuff changed color well from here. Never know till it gets cooked. I saw no signs that rock hunters had been to this location, i.e. chips and broken open coral heads. This spot backs up to a farm w/access road right to vein. Will approach land owner for permission to use access. fingers crossed
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Post by tkvancil on Aug 31, 2014 8:12:03 GMT -5
Quite the change. Sweet color after the cooking. Should be some very nice tumbles.
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 31, 2014 9:09:29 GMT -5
Totally liking the colors...The 1st photos of the pink,kind of reminds me of "Limb cast" petwood........Great finds James.."The King of Coral"....................
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Post by jamesp on Aug 31, 2014 9:21:20 GMT -5
Totally liking the colors...The 1st photos of the pink,kind of reminds me of "Limb cast" petwood........Great finds James.."The King of Coral".................... It is good that I am 3-6 hours away from the coral. If close by, wife would be a widow to coral.
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Post by Thunder69 on Aug 31, 2014 18:06:12 GMT -5
King Rockhound..Thy crown is coral....Wild wild pretties....Awesome colors James.....John
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Post by Pat on Aug 31, 2014 18:13:42 GMT -5
WOOOOWWWW!
Lots of contrasting colors.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Aug 31, 2014 23:33:49 GMT -5
Not infrequently, landowners can be softened a bit, or you may be made very welcome, with a gift {bribe} of finished mtl. Take some with you next time.
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Post by bhiatt on Sept 1, 2014 1:44:34 GMT -5
these may just be the coolest pieces you have shown off. I cant remember all that I have seen but these are killer.
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