jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 6, 2015 7:02:35 GMT -5
Those are really beautiful. I hope I get agatized after I die. If you don't get frozen first. Next time you come to the southland bc. They did a 'made for TV' documentary on the area I collect coral at. I suppose I was some what instrumental in making them aware thru a friend I brought with me. They missed the boat. They should have filmed a small section of the bottom of the river with underwater cameras. Where massive petrified corals litter the bottom. Would have put Jacque Cousteau to shame. All the coral hunters boat over that stretch of deeper water not knowing it is there. So get you an underwater camera and a snorkel and dive with Jamesp. You can sell the documentary to Nat Geo, I could do the talking but my southern draw may require subtitle ha. Thank you very much for the dallasite. PM address when you are ready for some coral, or else I will send it to ore
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Post by Pat on Feb 6, 2015 11:20:09 GMT -5
Fire Agate! No venereal warts. No coral cancer, and NO tongues! Fire Agate!
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Post by drocknut on Feb 6, 2015 11:37:59 GMT -5
Very cool diseased rocks..lol.
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Post by broseph82 on Feb 6, 2015 16:09:19 GMT -5
Those are really beautiful. I hope I get agatized after I die. If you don't get frozen first. Next time you come to the southland bc. They did a 'made for TV' documentary on the area I collect coral at. I suppose I was some what instrumental in making them aware thru a friend I brought with me. They missed the boat. They should have filmed a small section of the bottom of the river with underwater cameras. Where massive petrified corals litter the bottom. Would have put Jacque Cousteau to shame. All the coral hunters boat over that stretch of deeper water not knowing it is there. So get you an underwater camera and a snorkel and dive with Jamesp. You can sell the documentary to Nat Geo, I could do the talking but my southern draw may require subtitle ha. Thank you very much for the dallasite. PM address when you are ready for some coral, or else I will send it to ore Buddy, your southern accent doesn't match mine nor my wife's. Ha!
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Post by broseph82 on Feb 6, 2015 16:10:35 GMT -5
Fire Agate! No venereal warts. No coral cancer, and NO tongues! Fire Agate! No no. It does look like a bass fish tongue! Everytime I look at it I think of those commercials where it shows a big bass opening it mouth and striking a lure
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 6, 2015 16:52:47 GMT -5
You're killin me broseph82, I am going to Rottenwood creek tomorrow. It is at the big intersection of I-75 and I-285 on NW corner of perimeter. Mostly for quartzite, maybe felspar. Y'all come on over if you want. Bring your wet gear, it's a strong creek. Got cool geology.
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Post by broseph82 on Feb 6, 2015 16:58:04 GMT -5
You're killin me broseph, I am going to Rottenwood creek tomorrow. It is at the big intersection of I-75 and I-285 on NW corner of perimeter. Mostly for quartzite. Y'all come on over if you want. Bring your wet gear, it's a strong creek. Got cool geology. We're kind of just hanging out this weekend. Maybe finish some projects here (like painting last coat on trim). Pick me up some blue, green, and whatever colorful quartzite you can part with.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 6, 2015 17:33:49 GMT -5
15 pound garnets-just kidding. Painting trim.....uhh, I think i hear a new Covington in the background. I got stood up for a saw. It's true, isn't it.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 7, 2015 22:56:00 GMT -5
Dang Andy, those are really sweet.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 6:59:25 GMT -5
jamesp. So pretty! Reminds me of fire agate. Scott said that too Pat. Believe me, it's not that pretty, but not bad. I wish I had a real precision fine diamond saw to cut those botryoidals clean. The tile saw chips at the cut. Funny, the rusty ugly ones are the ones that do the concentric circles as you buff thru the layers to the whiskey colored layer. You gotta be the hounder of hounders. Looks to me like if there is a needle in the haystack you will be the one to find it. Have you tried a blade for cutting glass in the tile saw? They have finer diamonds (from my experience) and I got less chipping with them. Jim
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Post by jamesp on Feb 8, 2015 16:26:27 GMT -5
Scott said that too Pat. Believe me, it's not that pretty, but not bad. I wish I had a real precision fine diamond saw to cut those botryoidals clean. The tile saw chips at the cut. Funny, the rusty ugly ones are the ones that do the concentric circles as you buff thru the layers to the whiskey colored layer. You gotta be the hounder of hounders. Looks to me like if there is a needle in the haystack you will be the one to find it. Have you tried a blade for cutting glass in the tile saw? They have finer diamonds (from my experience) and I got less chipping with them. Jim Jim, that stuff is strewn all over the shoals. some are 18 inches across yet damaged. Supplying large quantities of those botryoids. the problem is the thickness, hard to find 1/4 and 3/8 inch plates of the stuff. I need to collect the botryoidal sheets in mass. Best spot is very difficult to get to. if you are referring to Andy's geodes, they require a bit of searching. but there are tricks to finding pockets. Many were formed in original colonies where you find a batch together; some are loose. Andy's were loose finds. I knew they had hollow areas, but no idea if they were going to be nice or not. His 2 I would rank in upper 75%, he done well. Thanks for the glass blade trick. sounds exactly what I need. I know that about glass cutting tools(finer diamonds), just never thought about it in a saw blade.
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Post by tyandnan on Feb 8, 2015 16:57:51 GMT -5
Crazy cool, but I am not sure I could handle having them on my desk unless I were a doctor, and then it would be a must. Very internal organ y.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 8, 2015 17:45:37 GMT -5
Crazy cool, but I am not sure I could handle having them on my desk unless I were a doctor, and then it would be a must. Very internal organ y. They are actually a petrified 'something else', best to call it coral for PG rating-kidding, it's coral psuedomorphs.
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