Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
Member since August 2005
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 31, 2015 17:31:07 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Heat has broken and it's raining a bunch and I'm not riding so I figured I'd drag out the saw and cut a few agates. Here are the first couple. Custard yellow tube agate with multi colored moss inclusions and tiny fortifications. Very unusual for a Rio. A green moss with yellow dots. This seems to be the most common type of green moss from the area. ![](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b377/sabre52/Rio%20Grande%20agate%20slabs/DSCN8438_zpsd48eli28.jpg)
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2015 20:36:29 GMT -5
Got a collection of weird Rios rolling in the tumblers Mel. Can't wait for you to identify them ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Must be 35 pounds, not necessarily pretty, but odd ones that had been set aside. Guessing most of them are no-names. Never seen anything like that first one, down at Zapata a wide variety.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 31, 2015 23:31:15 GMT -5
Nice Rio's.....................
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Post by captbob on Nov 1, 2015 8:54:46 GMT -5
Nice ones here! jamesp are you tumbling whole Rios or did you break them up?
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Post by frane on Nov 1, 2015 16:17:46 GMT -5
That first one almost looks like corpolite...not saying anything is wrong with it, just the look reminds me of the stuff ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) Just amazing how they come from the same areas but look so different at times. Fran
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 1, 2015 19:30:45 GMT -5
Nice ones here! jamesp are you tumbling whole Rios or did you break them up? Both. I did collect tumble size pebbles for tumbling. So I broke bigger ones and left the smaller pebbles whole. The area I collected had agate pebbles averaging 1/2 to 3 inches. Tumbler's paradise.
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