Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 30, 2014 18:51:23 GMT -5
Just another kind of plain Rio Grande agate. Think I'm getting bored with reds *L*....Mel
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 30, 2014 18:56:19 GMT -5
Are you finding palm ?
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 30, 2014 19:45:12 GMT -5
I still like em'.....
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 30, 2014 19:51:27 GMT -5
James, I took my agate hunters through my rock pile and showed them palm in all it's forms and colors and so far they've briought none in. I myself have found a huge chunk of palm fiber and a nice palm stump section in the La Grange gravels but it's all opalized , not agatized and more specimen that cutting quality. I always score ten or fifteen pounds of good palm when I go down to George West. Lots of it down that way and it's all real agatized......Mel
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2014 2:53:25 GMT -5
James, I took my agate hunters through my rock pile and showed them palm in all it's forms and colors and so far they've briought none in. I myself have found a huge chunk of palm fiber and a nice palm stump section in the La Grange gravels but it's all opalized , not agatized and more specimen that cutting quality. I always score ten or fifteen pounds of good palm when I go down to George West. Lots of it down that way and it's all real agatized......Mel Yes, George West is known for it. Some of the finest. The well agatized palm along the Rio is a mystery too me too. More common south along the Rio below Lake Falcon. May have washed from George West aged palm originating in S Texas washes. Every wash from many sources fed the Rio. A real smorgasbord. Check out the land prep at the ranch I collected, done by a 6 foot turning disc
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 31, 2014 9:08:04 GMT -5
Holy smokes James, having a cleared hunk of land like that is a rock collector's wet dream. Man, I'd kill to hit a spot like that right after a rain. Down at George West now they are driving scads of these dirt tracks into the well sites creating places much like what you've shown but you do not dare walk out on them because of Texas's tight rules on trespass. Boy, I'd sure like to walk out a few of those roads!......Mel
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2014 10:22:20 GMT -5
Holy smokes James, having a cleared hunk of land like that is a rock collector's wet dream. Man, I'd kill to hit a spot like that right after a rain. Down at George West now they are driving scads of these dirt tracks into the well sites creating places much like what you've shown but you do not dare walk out on them because of Texas's tight rules on trespass. Boy, I'd sure like to walk out a few of those roads!......Mel The owner of that ranch saw collecting on the gravel road. He invited me to hunt on his ranch. And told me to go to the gravel pit and tell them he sent me, his nephew works it and Uncle leases it. And his relatives owned the adjacent ranches. I did not put a dent in the plowed area, much less the adjacent ranches. The drought killed the planting he attempted, so it is very naked and has washes from lack of vegetation. The gravel pit was safer since workers were there. Was looking over my shoulders on the isolated ranch. DEA must have stopped me a dozen times in 2 weeks on those isolated gravel roads. All of those ranches in that immediate area are abandoned and leased for natural gas. Pretty much a ghost town. Some of the discing exposed what I thought was limestone bedrock, maybe it was just caliche. I learned not to drive the car off the beaten paths, thorns ruined all 4 Michelins. Looks like the 20 mile gravel road system in the immediate area was financed by the gas companies, great gravel spread to rock hunter's delight.
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Post by pghram on Oct 31, 2014 23:07:05 GMT -5
Nothing plane in those, very nice.
Rich
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