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Post by broseph82 on Mar 18, 2015 15:58:02 GMT -5
Just bought about 20lbs of rough from them. Should I be worried?
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 18, 2015 16:28:05 GMT -5
Top notch place!!!! No worries there buddy..............Thumbs up
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darrad
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Post by darrad on Mar 18, 2015 18:06:34 GMT -5
What did ya get? I got some nice cutters of Sodalite and Amy lace and was real happy with it.
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Post by deb193redux on Mar 18, 2015 19:36:32 GMT -5
the random pick will be ok, but when i used to visit, i would higrade. not every rock in the pile is a good as the next. they have tons of everything.
good people though. usually good to great prices
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Post by broseph82 on Mar 18, 2015 19:42:19 GMT -5
the random pick will be ok, but when i used to visit, i would higrade. not every rock in the pile is a good as the next. they have tons of everything. good people though. usually good to great prices I had Casey hand pick my rocks for me. It's some [hopefully] high flash labradorite. Said they had a couple thousand pounds of the high flash stuff. So we shall see. Casey said it was nice stuff so I thought id ask here after the fact. darrad |
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 18, 2015 21:59:02 GMT -5
If your dealing with Casey,your in good hands-he is a true rockhound too!!!!
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Post by johnjsgems on Mar 19, 2015 10:07:21 GMT -5
It's a great place to visit. I thought it would be all thunder eggs from their claims. Huge piles of everything from everywhere. They cut a lot of spheres so have a lot of scrap rock from coring preforms that were interesting. The older John was still alive when I was there and he was quite a character. I see John Jr. every year at Tucson. Nice people.
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Post by cobbledstones on Mar 19, 2015 15:23:29 GMT -5
Top notch place as others have said. Also a blast to visit if you ever have a chance
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Post by Pat on Mar 19, 2015 19:52:51 GMT -5
We've been there to dig. Fun area to explore, but we found our best stuff in their shop  |
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Mar 20, 2015 1:21:53 GMT -5
yep... Casey is a classic good guy. A rockhounds rockhound. He is on facebook. Seen some good photos from the ranch. A friend of Caseys,(Elke Litleleaf Kirk) has been bringing Casey huge thundereggs from native reservation to cut. Pretty cool.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 20, 2015 9:52:02 GMT -5
yep... Casey is a classic good guy. A rockhounds rockhound. He is on facebook. Seen some good photos from the ranch. A friend of Caseys,(Elke Litleleaf Kirk) has been bringing Casey huge thundereggs from native reservation to cut. Pretty cool. Did you see the last thunderegg Elke brought him?? It was a 360 pounder!!!!!! Can't wait to see that egg cut..PS: That's Casey...  |
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Post by bhiatt on Mar 21, 2015 2:49:17 GMT -5
yep... Casey is a classic good guy. A rockhounds rockhound. He is on facebook. Seen some good photos from the ranch. A friend of Caseys,(Elke Litleleaf Kirk) has been bringing Casey huge thundereggs from native reservation to cut. Pretty cool. Did you see the last thunderegg Elke brought him?? It was a 360 pounder!!!!!! Can't wait to see that egg cut..PS: That's Casey... fossilman, yep that was the photo I was thinking of. Thanks for posting the photo. |
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 21, 2015 9:25:01 GMT -5
Elke found a 670 pounder the other day,but it was fractured up pretty bad-going to leave it on the mountain...
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Post by roy on Mar 21, 2015 11:40:03 GMT -5
i bought one of his big eggs for my collection it wss a nice egg
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megalotis
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Post by megalotis on Apr 2, 2015 11:37:18 GMT -5
Our local club did a group order a couple of years ago; we ordered lots of different stuff. Quality of material varied from excellent to poor, depending on the material. The paiute agate was crap - monotone dingy/dark brown, LOADED with chalky spots. But, in all fairness, there was only one stone, and stones vary a lot, even within the same type. The antelope jasper was A+ (and at $1 a pound, a really good buy), the adventurine was good, the polka dot agate was around 70% to 80% associated jasper - which I was fine with, I really like the jasper. Other folks ordered labradorite, which looked good.
Overall, the prices were good, the material mostly good, I count the experience as positive, and I would order again. I might pass on the paiute agate, however!
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 2, 2015 20:03:35 GMT -5
A great place to visit-lots of eye candy!!!
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Post by Steve on Apr 2, 2015 20:44:44 GMT -5
I've made a couple of spheres from Paulina agate from Richardson's Ranch. forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/55004/paulina-agate-spheres I thought it was great stuff, but then I handpicked the pieces myself from the pile. My guess is that you just got one of the rocks that looked good on the outside, but otherwise was a fail. Last time I was there they had a huge pile of Paulina agate. I still have several pieces in my rock pile of stuff to work on. I plan to go there again this summer. Chance to add to my pile of uncut thundereggs. |
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 3, 2015 10:37:26 GMT -5
I need to get there too-get some RR "Blue Bed" and "Red Moss" thundereggs......
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Post by 1dave on Apr 4, 2015 10:17:14 GMT -5
yep... Casey is a classic good guy. A rockhounds rockhound. He is on facebook. Seen some good photos from the ranch. A friend of Caseys,(Elke Litleleaf Kirk) has been bringing Casey huge thundereggs from native reservation to cut. Pretty cool. Did you see the last thunderegg Elke brought him?? It was a 360 pounder!!!!!! Can't wait to see that egg cut..PS: That's Casey...  Is he loading that into a car trunk? Many moons ago a fellow construction worker bought a brand new pickup. The following Monday he drove his old wreck to work. "Where's your new truck?" "I took it out into the hills where I knew there was petrified wood. We found a nice log about three feet long and two feet in diameter. We dug into the hillside and backed the truck up perfect. Let the tail gate down, then levered the log into position and started it rolling - right into the bed and on into the front seat." |
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Post by MrP on Apr 4, 2015 12:26:54 GMT -5
Did you see the last thunderegg Elke brought him?? It was a 360 pounder!!!!!! Can't wait to see that egg cut..PS: That's Casey... Is he loading that into a car trunk? Many moons ago a fellow construction worker bought a brand new pickup. The following Monday he drove his old wreck to work. "Where's your new truck?" "I took it out into the hills where I knew there was petrified wood. We found a nice log about three feet long and two feet in diameter. We dug into the hillside and backed the truck up perfect. Let the tail gate down, then levered the log into position and started it rolling - right into the bed and on into the front seat." I must be missing something. If you figure out the Board Feet of that log it will only yield the equivalent of about 35 - 2X4X8's. I would think any pickup would be able to handle to handle a small load like that.  .....................MrP |
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Is he loading that into a car trunk?
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