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Post by glennz01 on Jun 4, 2015 21:29:15 GMT -5
i'll have pics up soon, just got back from work so i'm taking a break before I start cleaning .
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 4, 2015 23:33:43 GMT -5
pics.... the 1st 2 pics are the highly agatized stuff.. the 3rd pic is the more common stuff. going hounding in the rea these come from this weekend... i'll see how much I can bring back... will be mostly like the 3rd pic being less agatized with a color range
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Post by broseph82 on Jun 5, 2015 22:14:33 GMT -5
pics.... the 1st 2 pics are the highly agatized stuff.. the 3rd pic is the more common stuff. going hounding in the rea these come from this weekend... i'll see how much I can bring back... will be mostly like the 3rd pic being less agatized with a color range I like the 2nd pic!!
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 5, 2015 22:20:55 GMT -5
also that slab is the only true slab that is 1/4 in that is mailed off. but it gives a good idea of what the other 3 slabs look like.
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 6, 2015 11:52:29 GMT -5
heading out soon wish me luck
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Post by snowmom on Jun 6, 2015 18:48:09 GMT -5
watching with interest
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minerken
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Post by minerken on Jun 6, 2015 19:57:59 GMT -5
Glenn has sent my slab I have tracked it and it was in Anchorage this morning
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 7, 2015 1:30:43 GMT -5
well day 1 is exiting... I only found a few good high quality pieces of ash. The river was extremely low where I could walk across without needing an atv (I weigh 110 lbs rougly) Because of the lack of snowfall there is not much new material. however tomarrow I will be able to go places that noone could go to before... and have an atv.
in total I brought back enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket of agate, jasper and other stuff. There is one more piece of decent grade ash that was too big to bring back though.
most of the ash was fairly small tennis ball sized and lower though.. still had red and yellow with black or green though. I'll see how far I can get up stream... if I cant get too far up stream i'll go back where I was today and get the lower grade ash
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Post by broseph82 on Jun 7, 2015 13:05:54 GMT -5
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 8, 2015 0:55:20 GMT -5
well day 2 trip report... I went up river where is normally totally inaccessible... we were walking really fast because at 3:00 pm the river is high, we got done with that portion around 1 and the river rose quite a bit. The walls on both sides are canyons, so we didn't want to get trapped. afterwords we took the atv down (i drove ) crossed the river. I picked up all of the ash or as i'm calling it wave jasper that had both red/ yellow and black or green. most is the lower grade less silicated stuff.. some higher grade. however because the river is unusually low there is no not much new stuff. I think i picked up every decent piece of ash / wave jasper on the whole bed that is exposed... not enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket. I haden't drove an atv in at least 6+ years and have never done any river crossings before... but it all came back to me within a minute. It was a small atv so in some areas it wanted to float a little almost flooding the engine once.. Overall I don't have enough to sell it as rough to go around for multiple people, so I think I will slab it up and ether sell it as slabs or auction each slab or a set of slabs.... depends how much I think is usable... also until I cut the stuff it is hard to judge the grade.... just because it is not highly silicated doesn't mean its not a high grade so to speak I'm not sure when I will be cutting, i'm moving in around 5-7 weeks so i'm packing when I can and still trying to get out. each day I did bring back enough materials (jasper / agate) to fill a 5 gallon bucket. yesterday I think I got better stuff but its really hard to say... today I got lots of high grade possible great rhyolite... at least for alaska. If anyone is interested in the other stuff I found I can make another posting at some point... just show some interest Unless the creek floods again it will be the last time I go until octover / november if there is no snow. @shotgunner I finally found a piece of that red strawberry quartzite stuff I mentioned earlier on this trip, 2 of em but one is much better... like i said its hard to find
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Post by captbob on Jun 8, 2015 5:28:53 GMT -5
Sounds like a pretty good trip! Sure, all rock hounds want to find more or better, but you came home with a pretty good haul. Hope you took a camera with you, we all love to see those Alaska pictures.
I was thinkin' that if you don't over price this load (as you tend to do) that you might have some good sales if this material looks anything like that piece everyone has been raving over.
Some good sales of your rock hounding finds might go a long way towards showing your folks that what they probably consider a silly hobby can be a money making venture, and not some frivolous waste of time.
Not only could this be some cash in your pocket, but maybe they might start to understand that all this time you spend looking for or working with "those stupid old rocks" just might be time well spent.
ETA: That's a battle worth winning.
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 8, 2015 10:42:49 GMT -5
Sounds like a pretty good trip! Sure, all rock hounds want to find more or better, but you came home with a pretty good haul. Hope you took a camera with you, we all love to see those Alaska pictures. I was thinkin' that if you don't over price this load (as you tend to do) that you might have some good sales if this material looks anything like that piece everyone has been raving over. Some good sales of your rock hounding finds might go a long way towards showing your folks that what they probably consider a silly hobby can be a money making venture, and not some frivolous waste of time. Not only could this be some cash in your pocket, but maybe they might start to understand that all this time you spend looking for or working with "those stupid old rocks" just might be time well spent. ETA: That's a battle worth winning. I did bring my camera but forgot to get photos as for priceing the stuff... or anything alaskan... it depends where you get it. The reason good alaskan stuff costs so much is because it is very hard to get the really good stuff. Access is the problem. Some places people need to take a helicopter in for instance. Look up alaskan watermelon tourmaline. It is not a high grade compared to others but if someone wants it from this state they are going to have to pay. I was talking to a guy that came up from washington and even he said the same. I'm not sure what i'm going to price the stuff at exactly, depends on the slab i guess... I'll probably sell close to what my local rock shop would sell at. I'm pretty sure i'll probably just auction the stuff off and start with the cost of cutting.
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Post by captbob on Jun 8, 2015 10:54:40 GMT -5
as for priceing the stuff... or anything alaskan... it depends where you get it. The reason good alaskan stuff costs so much is because it is very hard to get the really good stuff. Access is the problem. Some places people need to take a helicopter in for instance. Look up alaskan watermelon tourmaline. It is not a high grade compared to others but if someone wants it from this state they are going to have to pay. I was talking to a guy that came up from washington and even he said the same. I'm not sure what i'm going to price the stuff at exactly, depends on the slab i guess... I'll probably sell close to what my local rock shop would sell at. I'm pretty sure i'll probably just auction the stuff off and start with the cost of cutting. *sigh* The rocks in these pictures are hard to get to? I must have missed the part where you take a helicopter to get to your location. Guess that would justify your prices! What exactly is "the cost of cutting"? I give up...
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 8, 2015 23:03:49 GMT -5
as for priceing the stuff... or anything alaskan... it depends where you get it. The reason good alaskan stuff costs so much is because it is very hard to get the really good stuff. Access is the problem. Some places people need to take a helicopter in for instance. Look up alaskan watermelon tourmaline. It is not a high grade compared to others but if someone wants it from this state they are going to have to pay. I was talking to a guy that came up from washington and even he said the same. I'm not sure what i'm going to price the stuff at exactly, depends on the slab i guess... I'll probably sell close to what my local rock shop would sell at. I'm pretty sure i'll probably just auction the stuff off and start with the cost of cutting. *sigh* The rocks in these pictures are hard to get to? I must have missed the part where you take a helicopter to get to your location. Guess that would justify your prices! What exactly is "the cost of cutting"? I give up... I did not say these rocks.. I said some places can only be accessed by helicopter. I may or may not be going on one of these trips this year... there is talk about it. This trip only cost $150 + 253.2 miles vehicle distance + 34 hours time + one sore body as for hiking it is hiking up hill about a mile with a pack full of rock + miles of river walking with multiple crossings (on foot). after my pack was full I made piles to get with the atv. I know in other areas like nevada one can find nice jasper and stuff at a fraction the effort I have to put in and costs less.. also the material has more higher quality stuff than the material I search. this is one of the cheapest and easiest trips one can do to find high grade stuff in quantity. The guy I was with was dead tired after the first day.. I had to carry his pack up the hill otherwise he wouldn't make it. Its tough up here... you would just need to experience it youself... that is all I can say. the easy river walks (10 miles out) where you might find something of decent quality might be cheap, but the quantity of stuff one may keep is around 2 lbs or less of maybe good and maybe yard rock.
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 9, 2015 20:54:21 GMT -5
not exactly sure when i'm going to cut seeing as i'm packing stuff... i'll probably sort all the ash out from the other stuff so I know exactly what I have
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Post by captbob on Jun 9, 2015 23:28:39 GMT -5
I'm not sure when I will be cutting, i'm moving in around 5-7 weeks so i'm packing when I can and still trying to get out. Your moving in 5-7 weeks and too busy packing to cut a few rocks? At 20 years old, you should be able to pack and completely move within 24 hours or less!
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 10, 2015 2:19:57 GMT -5
I'm not sure when I will be cutting, i'm moving in around 5-7 weeks so i'm packing when I can and still trying to get out. Your moving in 5-7 weeks and too busy packing to cut a few rocks? At 20 years old, you should be able to pack and completely move within 24 hours or less! I have been working a of of overtime lately and am usually tired by the time i'm done. If I had my saws at my house i'd be slabbing... but I don't. I'm hoping that i'll have allmost all my stuff moved out shortly though
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 16, 2015 2:09:28 GMT -5
Well just to give everyone an idea of how much I have now.... I'm able to fill 2 grocery bags (like wallmart probably) 1/2 full roughly... mostly mid grade stuff but theres a few higher grade pieces... none of the high grade is this large that I know of. I may be going back to go further up creek this upcoming weekend... I will probably only pick up the high grade stuff if its really nice... by mack is still sore from the last trips and last weekend
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 17, 2015 11:18:42 GMT -5
you able to find a spot to preform?
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jun 18, 2015 16:44:14 GMT -5
Woops nevermind accidental post
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