Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 25, 2017 17:47:35 GMT -5
My Uncle Dick gave me a bag of Baha agates,so I cut a few... Small critters,for sure...LOL flic.kr/s/aHsm7fXRJx |
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Post by wigglinrocks on Aug 25, 2017 18:33:14 GMT -5
Pretty little guys .
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Post by fernwood on Aug 26, 2017 5:42:02 GMT -5
I like. How small?
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 26, 2017 9:09:03 GMT -5
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Sept 3, 2017 8:21:30 GMT -5
Those are cool. Looks like fun cutting. They do not look anything like the bahia agates that most of us have been tumbling from the rock shed though. Rock shed bahia agates  Chuck |
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 3, 2017 8:58:03 GMT -5
Couldn't tell you were my Uncle Dick got them from... They were gifted from him...
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Post by coloradocliff on Sept 4, 2017 12:38:49 GMT -5
At first thought that you meant "Bahia Agates" but these are not like what I was thinking. Never collected on the Baja but been thru there a lot. ROugh country and volcanic.
MIke fossilman
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Post by spiceman on Sept 4, 2017 14:56:24 GMT -5
Fossilman,
They look cool, I bought some awhile back at a auction.
They are still waiting to be tumbled but yours look good cut.
I may try that...some day.
Cut Baha agates... Nice
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Post by coloradocliff on Sept 4, 2017 15:30:10 GMT -5
Fossilman, They look cool, I bought some awhile back at a auction. They are still waiting to be tumbled but yours look good cut. I may try that...some day. Cut Baha agates... Nice Dale I might have sent you a few Bahias in the box before last. Might look thru the pile. Neat banding but aint lakers or montanas.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 5, 2017 14:19:32 GMT -5
At first thought that you meant "Bahia Agates" but these are not like what I was thinking. Never collected on the Baja but been thru there a lot. ROugh country and volcanic.
View Attachment MIke fossilman
Do you ever use an air scribe to clean specimens like your ammonites and other fossils? Particularly wood and ammonites.. No I haven't....Just manual tools,dental picks,screwdrivers (reworked) and hand brushes... |
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Post by coloradocliff on Sept 5, 2017 14:34:19 GMT -5
At first thought that you meant "Bahia Agates" but these are not like what I was thinking. Never collected on the Baja but been thru there a lot. ROugh country and volcanic.
MIke fossilman
Do you ever use an air scribe to clean specimens like your ammonites and other fossils? Particularly wood and ammonites.. No I haven't....Just manual tools,dental picks,screwdrivers (reworked) and hand brushes... Thanks Mike, Impatient type with not a lot of time and thinking an air scribe to make it faster and maybe better because if it takes less worl, I can spend more time. HCl loosens the algae on wood but the scribe should jack hammer it off. Especially the sand-like concretion on some of the Wiggins Fork stuff. Like to see the bark detail. One I am working on now looks like a birch of all things. Thank You ! Cliff
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 5, 2017 19:10:24 GMT -5
Back in the stone ages, when I was on a museum fish collecting trip to Baja California, we went down to Bahia De Los Tiburones and there were agates down that way. Some were nodules and some looked more like desert roses we'd find in California. Never collected any as we flew in and had a lot of scuba gear taking up our weight but they did look similar to those you've cut. So maybe they are from Baja california, not Bahia, Brazil. Got to say those you've pictured really look a lot like Graham Pass nodules from california too....Mel
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 6, 2017 9:25:07 GMT -5
Yes they are California agates.....Thumbs up
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