jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 8, 2015 17:40:41 GMT -5
bcrockhound and ore sent me a heavy box of this fine stone. Cobbles thick sawn on the 18 inch saw and then to be sawn into tumbles on a tile saw and then heavily shaped on a grinder. am in a hurry to get this stuff into the tumbler. To be tumbled with snowmom's impactite and orrum's green banded rhyolite. All about Mohs 6. The dallasite and black impactite similar in mechanical properties.          
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Post by orrum on Feb 8, 2015 20:29:34 GMT -5
Dallasite looks good!!! Really good!!!
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Post by washingtonrocks on Feb 8, 2015 21:01:02 GMT -5
That's some really unusual and attractive stone. It does resemble quite a bit the stones snowmom is finding in her neck of the woods. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 22:27:28 GMT -5
Nice!!
My box just arrived. Need to open it Tuesday.
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bcrockhound
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Post by bcrockhound on Feb 9, 2015 3:15:00 GMT -5
Nice cuts. Thanks for showing the pictures. I like the really busy ones. Makes me miss the island.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 9, 2015 8:13:35 GMT -5
Nice!! My box just arrived. Need to open it Tuesday. tuesday ? like the Lynyrd Skynyrd Tuesday ? |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 9, 2015 8:17:53 GMT -5
That's some really unusual and attractive stone. It does resemble quite a bit the stones snowmom is finding in her neck of the woods. It has very similar characteristics, what is the black matrix in dallasite washington ? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 14:38:08 GMT -5
Nice!! My box just arrived. Need to open it Tuesday. tuesday ? like the Lynyrd Skynyrd Tuesday ? Like my day off is Tuesday. |
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Post by captbob on Feb 9, 2015 15:09:20 GMT -5
I have a full three month head start on jamesp tumbling some Dallasite. Already have some running in 500 grit. I'm thinkin' that he finishes before I do.  |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 9, 2015 15:26:23 GMT -5
I have a full three month head start on jamesp tumbling some Dallasite. Already have some running in 500 grit. I'm thinkin' that he finishes before I do. Added one of those inline 6 Toyota supra twin turbos |
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Post by captbob on Feb 9, 2015 15:43:08 GMT -5
Needin' one of them doohickies for my Tundra!
maybe not...
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 9, 2015 18:49:53 GMT -5
Needin' one of them doohickies for my Tundra! maybe not... love my Tundra, 295,000 hard miles and still going strong. |
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 9, 2015 19:28:39 GMT -5
Like the heavy contrast and wild patterns. Very pretty material!.......Mel
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Post by washingtonrocks on Feb 9, 2015 22:13:48 GMT -5
That's some really unusual and attractive stone. It does resemble quite a bit the stones snowmom is finding in her neck of the woods. It has very similar characteristics, what is the black matrix in dallasite washington ? James, I believe it's a highly silicaified Basalt. I find it on the beaches here, but I Never find anything with the patterns that bcrockhound's stones have. Seems to be exclusive to Vancouver Island. |
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 11, 2015 10:48:40 GMT -5
I have a chunk of Dallasite in my shop,I should get some more slabs off it.....
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 11, 2015 19:17:39 GMT -5
It has very similar characteristics, what is the black matrix in dallasite washington ? James, I believe it's a highly silicaified Basalt. I find it on the beaches here, but I Never find anything with the patterns that bcrockhound's stones have. Seems to be exclusive to Vancouver Island. Thanks for the answer washington. Silicified basalt makes sense. |
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Post by snowmom on Feb 12, 2015 8:17:56 GMT -5
Those are awesome pieces. That had to be a heck of an explosion to produce the huge mass of breccia that became Dallasite. It is believed to be volcanic in nature, can you picture a volcano blowing its top and spewing that much material around? You could probably see it happen from outer space. Truly awe inspiring, awesome is probably over used as a description in the language today, but in this case it really fits! Can't see enough pictures of this stuff.
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Post by snowmom on Feb 12, 2015 8:23:48 GMT -5
jamesp, remember the recent conversation about pumpellyite? Check out the greens in the Dallasite against the green in the piece of breccia you looked at... Dallasite has pumpellyite too... I think I can see it in some of the pictures you have posted here. The common thread is that BCRockhound, WashingtonRocks and I all seem to have stuff which originated from the Canadian Shield... I think?
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Post by snowmom on Feb 12, 2015 8:30:34 GMT -5
Nice!! My box just arrived. Need to open it Tuesday. I could not postpone opening a package of rocks like that... it would have to be done immediately! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 16:28:22 GMT -5
Yeah, well I'm working ten hour days seven days a week and I got lots of nice rocks, including your!
Didn't get Tuesday off either. Selling windows!
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