rockroller
spending too much on rocks
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Post by rockroller on Jun 18, 2015 12:26:46 GMT -5
This is only a few of the assorted goodies from my trip up to the Shirley Basin area. The area has a wide variety of collectables. I currently have this one in the saw. It has some really nice yellow and pink mixture. Not sure where to classify this on the chert, jasper, agate scale? It also has a bonus fossil shell imprint that I will have to cut around to keep as a specimen! This is a very chocolatey chert-agate-jasper something that looks like it will take a great shine and has lots of small bits of other colors in it. Sorry about the bad pic. One of these days I'm going to get a light box for photos... And I need some help with id on this one. Its a very very nice deep green color with some white quartz around and through it. Haven't done any testing on it but I will get to that... Brecciated agate or as I like to call them now, "the snowmom special". And what I believe to be a banded rhyolite. Might be too fractured for the cutting. Will have to find out. Thanks for browsing and any input you may have! I hope to have some slab samples soonish. ~Roland
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 18, 2015 12:33:33 GMT -5
Smokin' cool!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 18, 2015 12:34:42 GMT -5
Love those! On the first photo of your green banded rock, I am interested in seeing what the little formation near the base of your index finger is. Might be a clue to what the rest of it is. Can you do a closeup of that area of the rock (wet?) ? yeah, breccias are still my favorites, but the others here are pretty darn interesting. Last one makes me think of a piece of ham that might have been left out of the fridge a bit too long... good and good looking, interesting finds!
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