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Post by stoner on Jun 1, 2004 15:32:07 GMT -5
Hi all. Hope you had a great weekend with your families, honoring our vets, or playing with your rocks. I was at my brother's place in the Sierra foothills(Tulloch Res.) and a new house is being built behind his. Hmmm...fresh dug earth-a good place to find rocks that haven't been exposed yet. Just my luck, that whole area is slate(shale). So I'm walking along and sticking out under a slab of slate, I see something white about the size of my fist. Apparently the buldozer had hit a vein of quartz and by the time I was done digging around, I had collected half a bucket of some really nice quartz. Just goes to show, if ya look hard enough, you can find something good in something as mundane as slate.
later, Ed
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Post by cookie3rocks on Jun 1, 2004 19:38:23 GMT -5
What color is it? cookie
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Post by stoner on Jun 2, 2004 1:20:47 GMT -5
Hi cookie. It's just plain white quartz but it has alot of yellowish-brown areas in it too. I've tumbled some other quartz like this and the color goes all the way thru.
later, Ed
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Post by sandsman1 on Jun 2, 2004 9:01:19 GMT -5
hi all ---ed sounds like that walk turned out to worth the effort, i found some beach rocks with the brown and orange in them there small but there cool lookin ,the color kinda swirls through them i havent done them yet but they look like there gonna be nice ill throw them in with something else when i get to them
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Post by creativeminded on Jun 2, 2004 11:13:46 GMT -5
I had a wonderful Memorial weekend I went with my dad to my grandaddy's to visit and eat out then we went to my sisters to visit. Didn't get a chance to do any rock hunting.
I might try to go out to a couple of our lakes and look for some rocks, I don't know if they are native to KS but I have seen some interesting rocks in the past. Tami
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