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Post by aDave on Aug 17, 2017 20:50:40 GMT -5
You got some nice ones there. 1 is wonderstone 2 wood? 3 maybe rhyolite, can't tell 4 Gem Owyhee picture jasper, nice 5 no clue 6 palm 7 rocky butte? or something close Thanks Tela rockjunquie, the only one I had a good guess at was #6...same as you. Hoping accidentalrockhound will jump in here and clear up the mystery. Photos are crappy being on the cell, but I wanted to put something up in short order. Thanks for your input. Dave |
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 17, 2017 20:58:29 GMT -5
You got some nice ones there. 1 is wonderstone 2 wood? 3 maybe rhyolite, can't tell 4 Gem Owyhee picture jasper, nice 5 no clue 6 palm 7 rocky butte? or something close Thanks Tela rockjunquie , the only one I had a good guess at was #6...same as you. Hoping accidentalrockhound will jump in here and clear up the mystery. Photos are crappy being on the cell, but I wanted to put something up in short order. Thanks for your input. Dave I could be wrong- just guessing. |
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Post by notjustone on Aug 17, 2017 22:57:12 GMT -5
OK. Here are the rocks that accidentalrockhound sent me. He realized I was a tumbler and sent appropriate material. These are all photo'd wet with a cell phone. Not something I would normally do, but I went for the quick and dirty. If I could get ID's on all of this stuff, it would be greatly appreciated. 1.  2.  3. 
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 7.  6 ok here goes remember I'm a newbie and am not right 100% of the time #1 is a chunk of rock #2 is 2 rocks #3 could be a chunk of very rich chocolate cake that's very stale around the outside #4 is 3 rocks #5 is a very colorful rock #6 is a rock with lots of spots in it #7 is a rock that has banding of different minerals in it. whew man I think I just used my last brain cell trying to figure it out for you hope I was helpful. |
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Post by notjustone on Aug 17, 2017 23:46:56 GMT -5
it was a long frustrating night at work and I had to vent somehow
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Aug 18, 2017 0:17:28 GMT -5
You got some nice ones there. 1 is wonderstone 2 wood? 3 maybe rhyolite, can't tell 4 Gem Owyhee picture jasper, nice 5 no clue 6 palm 7 rocky butte? or something close Thanks Tela rockjunquie , the only one I had a good guess at was #6...same as you. Hoping accidentalrockhound will jump in here and clear up the mystery. Photos are crappy being on the cell, but I wanted to put something up in short order. Thanks for your input. Dave 1 not sure 2 I think is jasper was with a bucket with larger chunks 1 slab was written on in the bucket said variegated jasper and agate. 3 is self collected in the creek I hound. Dave I don't recommend tumbling that piece.soft and stinky, I cabbed a piece after I sent you that out of curiosity .messy. 4 gem Owhyee picture jasperto 5 rose agate jasper, rare material hard to find info on it I read something about it being mind in the 60's. Rockjunquie that is what the rough looks like same as the slabblet I sent you. 6 is self collected Colorado Palm wood from my creek. I find 3 different types of Palm in my creek. May come out solid black when you tumble it 7 not sure |
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 18, 2017 2:45:01 GMT -5
Thanks Tela rockjunquie , the only one I had a good guess at was #6...same as you. Hoping accidentalrockhound will jump in here and clear up the mystery. Photos are crappy being on the cell, but I wanted to put something up in short order. Thanks for your input. Dave 1 not sure 2 I think is jasper was with a bucket with larger chunks 1 slab was written on in the bucket said variegated jasper and agate. 3 is self collected in the creek I hound. Dave I don't recommend tumbling that piece.soft and stinky, I cabbed a piece after I sent you that out of curiosity .messy. 4 gem Owhyee picture jasperto 5 rose agate jasper, rare material hard to find info on it I read something about it being mind in the 60's. Rockjunquie that is what the rough looks like same as the slabblet I sent you. 6 is self collected Colorado Palm wood from my creek. I find 3 different types of Palm in my creek. May come out solid black when you tumble it 7 not sure 1 is a rhyolite.. Wonderstone. Rounds fast and makes a lot of mud quickly. 2 Looks like a jasper or wood jasper, Harder and will make a solid tumbled stone. 7. Is some type of agate might not ever know for sure. Looks pretty nondescript. Looks to tumble well . Have some prairie that look similar. Agree with your other ids. Love the Owyhee. The rose agate appears to not be fully healed and seems a bit weathered. Loving your palm finds Frank. PS Frank I have had good success at lightening up dark pet wood with bleaching. Full strength for a short period. When its the lightness you want wash it off Talking 5-10 minutes here. The ones on the left were some of the dark, dark pieces on the left picture. In right picture the longer piece wasn't put in bleach. The cross section baby round in right picture was black as black. If you over bleach a round in a tumbler will remove the bleached patina and it will be back to black.  
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Post by aDave on Aug 18, 2017 10:24:09 GMT -5
it was a long frustrating night at work and I had to vent somehow It's all good. I had a weird day as well. Sorry about that. Dave |
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Aug 18, 2017 15:03:44 GMT -5
1 not sure 2 I think is jasper was with a bucket with larger chunks 1 slab was written on in the bucket said variegated jasper and agate. 3 is self collected in the creek I hound. Dave I don't recommend tumbling that piece.soft and stinky, I cabbed a piece after I sent you that out of curiosity .messy. 4 gem Owhyee picture jasperto 5 rose agate jasper, rare material hard to find info on it I read something about it being mind in the 60's. Rockjunquie that is what the rough looks like same as the slabblet I sent you. 6 is self collected Colorado Palm wood from my creek. I find 3 different types of Palm in my creek. May come out solid black when you tumble it 7 not sure 1 is a rhyolite.. Wonderstone. Rounds fast and makes a lot of mud quickly. 2 Looks like a jasper or wood jasper, Harder and will make a solid tumbled stone. 7. Is some type of agate might not ever know for sure. Looks pretty nondescript. Looks to tumble well . Have some prairie that look similar. Agree with your other ids. Love the Owyhee. The rose agate appears to not be fully healed and seems a bit weathered. Loving your palm finds Frank. PS Frank I have had good success at lightening up dark pet wood with bleaching. Full strength for a short period. When its the lightness you want wash it off Talking 5-10 minutes here. The ones on the left were some of the dark, dark pieces on the left picture. In right picture the longer piece wasn't put in bleach. The cross section baby round in right picture was black as black. If you over bleach a round in a tumbler will remove the bleached patina and it will be back to black.
I heard about the bleaching.Thanks for the info. Do you think it will hold up for cabbing? |
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