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Post by captbob on Feb 22, 2015 11:15:05 GMT -5
(have another rock buying foray Saturday) Well that was a waste of time. Our local rock club (I don't belong) is holding it's annual show in 2 weeks. I saw in their news letter that they were having a pre-show sale at their club house yesterday. Supposedly, they had lots of fantastic donations in 2014, and this was a money raising event before the real show. yeah.... Spent an hour or so going through milk crates of leaverite and who'dbuythisstuff. Even the material displayed on tables wasn't worth the time it took to look over. It was a struggle to fine something to walk out of there with. Picked out a piece of agatized coral and 3 pieces of unakite (they didn't know what the unakite was when I bought it. Asked $15 for my "pile" and I gave them 20. The larger piece of unakite is over 12" long - 5+ish pounds.   Can't wait for the real show in a couple weeks. ALWAYS come home with treasures from there. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2015 11:11:10 GMT -5
nice pics captbob. Metamorphic rocks such as fossil corals and your clams are indeed still rocks. I like metamorphic stones more than the others. I sold windows to a seagoing tug captain last week! Awesome dude, just like you! |
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Post by captbob on Feb 23, 2015 19:21:46 GMT -5
I'm Awesome! *  * According to Scott, which is good enough for me. Will have my wife call Scott to verify that when she gets home from puppy school and sees all these buckets and bins on the back porch. Well, that was fun. And, tiring and took hours and hours, but was well worth the time. And hopefully, (someday) the investment. Gonna have to leave it at that for tonight. It's too dark for pictures, I'm exhausted and in dire need of several beers. Did get to pick & choose, which is why it took so long. I left all kinds of mastodon bones and huge non agatized corals; along with buckets full of calcite clam "pieces". Probably some good stuff left behind, I just ran out of time - read: daylight. I did get a bucket of idon'tknow - stuff looks like worms used to live in it. White like coral, but all interwoven tubes. Big colonies (?) of whatever it is was. Not sure what they are, but they were too cool looking to leave behind. Also got a chunk (probably 40 pounds) of calcite from the Brooksville area -north of St. Pete & Tampa-. WAY cool. Pics soon. For now, right now, I hear a plethora of Michelob Light bottles calling my name. Tomorrow's mission is to go buy a 55 gal steel barrel off craigslist to store all this crap in. I have no room for all these darn buckets. OH...... just thinkin' would those mastodon bones cab like dino bone?  ? oops...... should I have bought them? There was a bucket full that looked like tree branches, average 6" to 8", some longer, maybe like a golf ball in diameter. I'd rather not go back unless they are something special. Lots of mastodon vertebra there, but I know nothing about that - value wise, so I left all that stuff. Some big a$$ mastodon "toe" bone, that he said was worth hundreds... I dunno. NO teeth tho. |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2015 20:19:39 GMT -5
The tree branches may be Tampa Bay finger coral. Cross cut finger coral :  |
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Post by captbob on Feb 24, 2015 0:14:56 GMT -5
No, they were bone. I got to thinking tho and figured that the mastodon or mammoth is probably 65 million years too young to cab like dino bone. Found an example of that tube /worm /coral stuff www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22713.6 million years old = some darn old worm thingies! I'll post pics tomorrow. Really interesting stuff. These were collected down near Bradenton, just south of Tampa and maybe 30 miles inland. |
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Post by captbob on Feb 25, 2015 0:55:36 GMT -5
been one of those days... Here is the calcite chunk from the Brooksville area - North of Tampa. Over estimated, it weighs 32 lbs  And these are the tube worm colony things. If anyone knows the real name of these I would like to know it. They were found in Manatee County, just south of Tampa. Kinda cool whatever they are.     Went and got a 55 gal steel barrel today. Looking at all the buckets and bins of clams, I'm thinking there is no way they will all fit. Weighed the containers of clams and came up with 295 pounds. Will deal with them tomorrow if it doesn't rain. More to come! |
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Post by captbob on Feb 25, 2015 22:33:04 GMT -5
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Post by Jugglerguy on Feb 26, 2015 6:08:10 GMT -5
That's a lot of clams!
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Post by snowmom on Feb 26, 2015 6:54:08 GMT -5
what a haul captbob! I got tired just looking at it. Gonna do a little search on those spiral worm shells, fascinating and they look like good specimens. Are they fossilized? I had some 'shell' ones very similar to these while I had my shell collection. What a mind boggling collection you got!
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Post by snowmom on Feb 26, 2015 7:06:22 GMT -5
starting here, this looks like them, there are only a few kinds they can be. If the ones you have are fossils, we would have to look a little harder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermetidae you have very nice examples compared to what I found posted in internet searches. |
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Post by gingerkid on Feb 27, 2015 19:44:04 GMT -5
Love the Ruck's Pit clams, captbob! You have quite a kickarse specimen collection, too, and hope you'll post some pics of your malachite on the forum. Did you purchase this one?  |
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Post by iant on Mar 5, 2015 3:16:42 GMT -5
Only just stumbled on this thread, very interesting and entertaining - and beautiful clams too!
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? oops...... should I have bought them? There was a bucket full that looked like tree branches, average 6" to 8", some longer, maybe like a golf ball in diameter. I'd rather not go back unless they are something special. Lots of mastodon vertebra there, but I know nothing about that - value wise, so I left all that stuff. Some big a$$ mastodon "toe" bone, that he said was worth hundreds... I dunno. NO teeth tho. 
