Agatized coral haul -Photo HEAVY
Mar 16, 2017 16:10:10 GMT -5
Fossilman, quartz, and 5 more like this
Post by captbob on Mar 16, 2017 16:10:10 GMT -5
Found a nice little hoard of agatized corals right close to home recently and paid it a visit this past weekend.
Brought home a load and after cleaning it up some a couple days ago, I figured that a few dozen photos of some of it may interest folks here.
Any way, gonna run through these and see if I can get this post done in less than an hour -
A few photos from the place where they have been for many years. They were just in the dirt all over the yard for years, but the owner made a little coral corral for some of it. Much more on outside shelves and in big Rubbermaid type storage bins.
Some of it -
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6 Enough of that. Brought a load home.
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8 some to tumble
Cleaned it up some and got it to the back deck for now. My wife LOVES this! well .... not so much
If it looks boring, that probably means it is hollow with good potential inside. I spent 5-6 hours sorting through the piles and bins and did not bring home a single piece of "junk". Didn't bother with pictures of over half of it as that was just way too much work on the downloading/resizing/hosting/posting end.
9 a couple group shots - had more of corals in the area between these two pics, guess I didn't transfer them...
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A bunch of individual pictures -
11 hollow all the way back in there to the left
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13 not too exciting outside, but entirely hollow. Hollow with coral means it's all agatized inside. Blues more rare.
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15 big 'un and deep agatized pocket
16 small, but very interesting. could have posted 5 pics of this piece
17 all druzy guts
18 big piece, entirely hollow inside that hole
19 the piece on the right intrigues me, I like the layers - about the size of a large bowling ball
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22 looks like the inside of an agatized volcano
23 this looks like a cornucopia
24 3 big pieces - not much on the outside, but all totally hollow, Will be sawn in halves someday & face polished
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26 one view of biggest chunk. 50+ lbs with lots of hollow agatized openings
27 same piece as above different angle
28 Several photos of this one. jamesp unusual blue center red surround lines - wish it had been whole
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31 outside of 1 piece - definitely coral
32 small but kinds cool looking
33 another favorite - layers and hollow druzy interior
34 another view of the bowling ball piece - sitting on my legs - it's big!
Forgot to take pictures of the big pieces that I believe are Tampa Bay corals as they were in a different area. Will work on that soon to finish this off.
Hope you enjoyed seeing some corals!
(52 minutes = not bad for me!)
- proofreading & edits = 14 minutes - damn. I can't manage one of these threads in less than an hour!
Brought home a load and after cleaning it up some a couple days ago, I figured that a few dozen photos of some of it may interest folks here.
Any way, gonna run through these and see if I can get this post done in less than an hour -
A few photos from the place where they have been for many years. They were just in the dirt all over the yard for years, but the owner made a little coral corral for some of it. Much more on outside shelves and in big Rubbermaid type storage bins.
Some of it -
1
2
3
4
5
6 Enough of that. Brought a load home.
7
8 some to tumble
Cleaned it up some and got it to the back deck for now. My wife LOVES this! well .... not so much
If it looks boring, that probably means it is hollow with good potential inside. I spent 5-6 hours sorting through the piles and bins and did not bring home a single piece of "junk". Didn't bother with pictures of over half of it as that was just way too much work on the downloading/resizing/hosting/posting end.
9 a couple group shots - had more of corals in the area between these two pics, guess I didn't transfer them...
10
A bunch of individual pictures -
11 hollow all the way back in there to the left
12
13 not too exciting outside, but entirely hollow. Hollow with coral means it's all agatized inside. Blues more rare.
14
15 big 'un and deep agatized pocket
16 small, but very interesting. could have posted 5 pics of this piece
17 all druzy guts
18 big piece, entirely hollow inside that hole
19 the piece on the right intrigues me, I like the layers - about the size of a large bowling ball
20
21
22 looks like the inside of an agatized volcano
23 this looks like a cornucopia
24 3 big pieces - not much on the outside, but all totally hollow, Will be sawn in halves someday & face polished
25
26 one view of biggest chunk. 50+ lbs with lots of hollow agatized openings
27 same piece as above different angle
28 Several photos of this one. jamesp unusual blue center red surround lines - wish it had been whole
29
30
31 outside of 1 piece - definitely coral
32 small but kinds cool looking
33 another favorite - layers and hollow druzy interior
34 another view of the bowling ball piece - sitting on my legs - it's big!
Forgot to take pictures of the big pieces that I believe are Tampa Bay corals as they were in a different area. Will work on that soon to finish this off.
Hope you enjoyed seeing some corals!
(52 minutes = not bad for me!)
- proofreading & edits = 14 minutes - damn. I can't manage one of these threads in less than an hour!
