jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 16, 2016 19:36:26 GMT -5
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 16, 2016 20:07:00 GMT -5
The variety in that batch is amazing. The shine is great too. Now I have to go back and look at them all again.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jan 16, 2016 20:22:37 GMT -5
Good show James and really nice tumble. Thanks for taking the time to take and post so many pictures. It is appreciated.
Chuck
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Post by meviva on Jan 16, 2016 20:48:37 GMT -5
Totally awesome....hard to pick a favorite.
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Post by herchenx on Jan 16, 2016 21:07:27 GMT -5
Man I need to get down there.... great batch man.
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Post by Peruano on Jan 16, 2016 21:09:35 GMT -5
We in New Mexico are obligated by federal law and common decency to allow Texas just so many (a specific percentage of the total) beautiful rocks from the Rio Grande Watershed of New Mexico. I'm glad you had a chance to share in the largesse. Good job on highlighting them. Tom
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Intheswamp
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Post by Intheswamp on Jan 16, 2016 22:08:34 GMT -5
James, I'm going be very straightforward here....those are making me incredibly jealous!!!!
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indiana
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Post by indiana on Jan 16, 2016 23:12:39 GMT -5
Fantastic! Some really nice stuff in there.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 7:08:48 GMT -5
Good show James and really nice tumble. Thanks for taking the time to take and post so many pictures. It is appreciated. Chuck Thanks Jugglerguy. I won't charge admission for looking another time. Chuck, those were cherry picked from a lot of carefully collected Rios. About the whole batch photographed up close in the greenhouse which accentuates defects.(hand held camera at 1/250 shutter speed) They were coarse ground more than any tumble done since I have been tumbling. And fractures and pits are still prevalent. Only 25% were 'perfect' tumbles w/out a defect of some sort. The sheer variety makes up for the fractures, but irritating RE the pits and fractures. Next time I will inspect the large cobble pile to see if they have less damage.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 7:42:00 GMT -5
Man I need to get down there.... great batch man. One particular gravel pit riverside had piles of fine rock. I could see ordering 10-12 tons in a long haul and having them dumped in your yard as decorative island. You would be able to collect at least a ton of fine agates jaspers and wood. Price calculation: minimally one ton of fine agate, wood and jasper tumbles = $4000 at $2/pound Cost for such long haul including gravel aprox $1800-2500 The McDonald's decorative island and the junkyard's parking lot in Zapata Texas had such gravel. I walked over both after a rain, took nothing but had to restrain.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 7:43:29 GMT -5
We in New Mexico are obligated by federal law and common decency to allow Texas just so many (a specific percentage of the total) beautiful rocks from the Rio Grande Watershed of New Mexico. I'm glad you had a chance to share in the largesse. Good job on highlighting them. Tom The forces of nature pillaged New Mexico ad carried her finest away.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 7:53:17 GMT -5
James, I'm going be very straightforward here....those are making me incredibly jealous!!!! I see a trip in your future Ed. Only an 18 hour drive from S Alabama. And don't listen to the constant DEA's advise about not walking around the banks of Lake Falcon. Strange to have them approach you constantly asking your business. I was curious that the local land owners were not involved in aid and abet, or just turned the other cheek.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 7:55:15 GMT -5
Fantastic! Some really nice stuff in there. Thanks indiana, no shortage of color. Quite a hodge podge to collect there.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 9:11:34 GMT -5
Totally awesome....hard to pick a favorite. Thanks for the visit meviva.
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 17, 2016 9:20:00 GMT -5
Those red and yellow moss,really stand out! Thumbs up
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 9:44:04 GMT -5
Nice batch of rocks. Some of those jaspers and moss look just like the stuff I find on the Oregon Coast. As soon as I saw your post I tried to look up the definition of 'ambigule'. Spelling is amygdule, your RTH handle. "A vesicle in an igneous rock containing secondary minerals." Finally figured out how to spell that word and it was your handle, go figure. OK, we have no lava flows here in the south. About the only source of agate/chert is dissolved silica from diatoms. Replacements and fills. It is quite different in texture and color from agates formed in amygdules. To get to amygdule formed agates requires a drive to Texas from Atlanta, like 18 hours. The closest place. Be thankful you have those close by. They are so diverse. Drove to Alpine TX the first time agate hunting. Mrs. Woodward says "look for biscuit shaped stones". I did not get it, confusing pebbles for the well disguised agates. I returned at the end of the day and told her I did not find any. She walked me around back to the exposed basalt and pointed a few out. Got it. Only had an hour left and filled a bucket. Basically went back home and did a reset and returned couple of weeks later educated and cleaned up. And figured out billions of the 'amygdules' had washed down to south Texas where I could collect for free. My spell check still attacks the word amygdule if plural.
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Intheswamp
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Post by Intheswamp on Jan 17, 2016 9:51:12 GMT -5
James, I'm going be very straightforward here....those are making me incredibly jealous!!!! I see a trip in your future Ed. Only an 18 hour drive from S Alabama. And don't listen to the constant DEA's advise about not walking around the banks of Lake Falcon. Strange to have them approach you constantly asking your business. I was curious that the local land owners were not involved in aid and abet, or just turned the other cheek. Mama said I can go rock hunting where ever I want to, I just gotta be home by dark 'cause my bicycle don't have lights on it...
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Post by mohs on Jan 17, 2016 9:58:12 GMT -5
fabulous variety of rocks james !! so well done ,displayed & photographed I see lots of Sonora desert
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 9:59:57 GMT -5
Those red and yellow moss,really stand out! Thumbs up That place would be a great destination for a big group of RTH folks. I feel certain the land owner would let me have a group collect there. He has 200 acres, I only collected on 50 of it and did not put a dent. He is related to the gravel company owners and about 4000 more acres of land owners on the same road. A group much safer with all the border crap goings ons. I suggest winter, the hottest place on earth. Southern tip of Texas is deep south
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Post by jamesp on Jan 17, 2016 10:01:40 GMT -5
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