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Post by gingerkid on Dec 22, 2014 16:30:46 GMT -5
orrum, gonna guess if it might be rhyolite?? 
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panamark
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by panamark on Dec 22, 2014 16:35:08 GMT -5
I want to guess Amber, but I do not know of any purplish amber out there. And obsidian was "getting hot". ? ? ? ?
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 22, 2014 16:37:18 GMT -5
No Mark, obsidian was just getting warm. No hot guesses yet.
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Post by captbob on Dec 22, 2014 16:50:29 GMT -5
Okay, here is my long shot based on 1. not a rock' and 2. getting close with obsiadian. How about Fulgurites? I'm thinking not a rock as well. BUT, he said it can be cabbed. Can ya cab a railroad spike?  Old glass bottles? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 17:55:04 GMT -5
Bornite
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 22, 2014 18:15:59 GMT -5
Hey Scott, think of your own mineral! Bornite is mine.
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Post by mohs on Dec 22, 2014 18:20:12 GMT -5
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells Sally sells are surely not technically a
rock
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Post by orrum on Dec 22, 2014 18:30:11 GMT -5
Captn Bob is very hot!!#!
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Post by gingerkid on Dec 22, 2014 18:34:34 GMT -5
Railroad insulator glass?
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Post by captbob on Dec 22, 2014 18:36:09 GMT -5
Captn Bob is very hot!!#! uh... thanks? This may be the best post ever!  |
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Post by mohs on Dec 22, 2014 18:36:16 GMT -5
zircon encrusted cactus needles ?
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Post by fantastic5 on Dec 22, 2014 18:42:11 GMT -5
The glass insulators from the old power poles?  |
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 22, 2014 19:05:28 GMT -5
Model T Fordite or Desert Amethyst? Broken headlight glass exposed to desert sun and turned purple.
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Steve
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Post by Steve on Dec 22, 2014 19:34:53 GMT -5
Cactus
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Dec 22, 2014 19:49:36 GMT -5
I just went and got a lottery ticket. figured it would be easier to win that.
keep um' guessing Bill
Chuck
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 22, 2014 20:00:21 GMT -5
Chuck, I've got this. They used to add manganese oxide to glass, and when it's exposed to ultraviolet light, it turns purple. It all fits, it's sort of like bottles and obsidian. It's not a rock. It's sort of like obsidian. The desert sun is the perfect place to bring out the purple. It's valued in the west. www.29palmshistorical.com/PurpleGlass.php |
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Post by orrum on Dec 22, 2014 21:14:03 GMT -5
Jugglerguy nailed it direct headon!!!!! Susan and I have been wandering all over old time settlers sites looking for some really nice purple desert glass and finding none, nada, zippo!!! LOL. The Opal instructor here at the Gem and Lapidark club would rather cab desert glass than anything including opals. It's very rare and very beautiful. After church yesterday a friend invited us to go to the Clem ranch to deliver some stuff to the owner. It's about 120,000 acres and runs Brangus cattle. We were wandering around the headquarters cattle working and feed station and Susan started finding desert glass in all colors. Some of the purple was a deep like in amethyst color. We wound up with about a pint. That's a fortune in cabbing material!!! I asked the owner if there used to be a settlers cabin or something there and he said no it was a stagecoach station on the way to Judge Roy Beans outfit on the side of Eagle Eye Mountain!!! So yes you got it Juggler guy and please PM me your address? Captn Bob send me yours too and I will find you some goodies too! He Tonyterner thanks for having me pay it forward!!! This was a blast!!!
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Post by orrum on Dec 22, 2014 21:23:20 GMT -5
It was probably from broken canning jars used to feed folks at the stagecoach stop there. The had a huge 1.5 inch washing rain thru the headquarters. Chuck I will send you a piece and you can please photo and cab it for the folks?
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 22, 2014 22:01:00 GMT -5
Woo-hoo! If I can't beat Chuck at tumbling contests, at least I can beat him at something.
My wife and daughter were helping me. My wife came up with bornite. It didn't quite fit the clues, but it was the only thing we could think of. I found an article on the 'net about desert glass at the same time my daughter found it referred to as Model T Fordite. I hadn't heard of it before.
Thanks for the fun contest, Orrum. I love contests!
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Post by captbob on Dec 22, 2014 23:10:15 GMT -5
Bill, I appreciate the offer, but I was really just playing along for fun. I had already used my answer that round anyway! Your continued posts of your Quartzsite experience are prize enough. Thanks for the fun game. |
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