Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Oct 2, 2017 13:58:53 GMT -5
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Oct 2, 2017 14:00:55 GMT -5
Ps. It was already glued to the stick.
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Post by Pat on Oct 2, 2017 14:23:14 GMT -5
I would have been intrigued, and bought it, too. Besides, it is pretty good looking!
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grizman
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Post by grizman on Oct 2, 2017 16:16:31 GMT -5
Yup, I would have had to grab it too. I'm with you, do you cab it, cut it or leave it as is...a true collectors item.
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 2, 2017 16:37:52 GMT -5
Nice looking material.
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Post by orrum on Oct 2, 2017 16:56:12 GMT -5
And it was named...AWESOMRNESS!!!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 2, 2017 17:03:47 GMT -5
Wow neato! Never seen or heard of that before. Pretty wild combination of minerals. That interior coast range is a treasure chest of weird and strange jasper materials. My collecting buddy and I found some brecciated blue and yellow jasper at Creston , CA many years ago when hunting Stone Canyon type jasper on his folks' old ranch but the blue areas were not well silicated. Not usable but could have been a related material....Mel
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Post by toiv0 on Oct 2, 2017 17:26:03 GMT -5
Pretty cool material and history, I say slice one and cab it up and save the rest.
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zarguy
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Post by zarguy on Oct 2, 2017 18:08:09 GMT -5
That's sweet material. Never seen it before.
Can't wait to see the cab(s).
And it's from Lexington Reservoir!
I used to ride my mtn. bike there.
I never found anything but driftwood.
Lynn
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 2, 2017 21:42:17 GMT -5
Very nice looking jasper... I like dark colors,over bright anytime..
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wampidytoo
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Post by wampidytoo on Oct 3, 2017 3:56:36 GMT -5
Wow, way different than mine. Mine has some yellow in it (the part I don't like) but it is a haze instead of nice pieces of yellow. I have or had a piece that had more yellow than blue but I could not find a photo of it. I have a feeling yours will polish better than mine too. My black doesn't polish much and the rest gets mostly a luster and some less but the blue G is a lot tougher than jasper but more breakable than jade. Yours looks better than mine and I would have to take a slice off of it just to see what I could do with it. Jim P8050004:  P8050005:  P8050003:  P8050002:  |
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Post by fernwood on Oct 3, 2017 5:06:26 GMT -5
Great find
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Post by melhill1659 on Oct 3, 2017 5:47:39 GMT -5
Sweeet! Love the note!!!
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Post by fantastic5 on Oct 3, 2017 6:37:37 GMT -5
Pretty cool material and history, I say slice one and cab it up and save the rest. x2. Cab a piece and keep it with the original block and note. Would make a great display! |
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Oct 4, 2017 11:04:01 GMT -5
Here are a couple of interesting reading links about the Los Gatos area and Lexington reservoir. What makes this area so fascinating is the population density in proximity to the major metropolitan area of San Jose. Makes you wonder what other kind of goodies are buried under all of those houses. What you pay for a bucketful of marcasite thundereggs? haha. www.mineralworld.de/html/lone_hill_eng.htmlpubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/0221/pdf/of02.221.pdf |
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Post by stephan on Oct 9, 2017 13:30:25 GMT -5
Here are a couple of interesting reading links about the Los Gatos area and Lexington reservoir. What makes this area so fascinating is the population density in proximity to the major metropolitan area of San Jose. Makes you wonder what other kind of goodies are buried under all of those houses. What you pay for a bucketful of marcasite thundereggs? haha. www.mineralworld.de/html/lone_hill_eng.htmlpubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/0221/pdf/of02.221.pdfThundereggs that smell like sulfur. Like hard-boiled eggs. That's kind of funny. |
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Post by beefjello on Oct 21, 2017 16:38:49 GMT -5
Super find Tommy!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2017 18:22:37 GMT -5
Wow, way different than mine. Mine has some yellow in it (the part I don't like) but it is a haze instead of nice pieces of yellow. I have or had a piece that had more yellow than blue but I could not find a photo of it. I have a feeling yours will polish better than mine too. My black doesn't polish much and the rest gets mostly a luster and some less but the blue G is a lot tougher than jasper but more breakable than jade. Yours looks better than mine and I would have to take a slice off of it just to see what I could do with it. Jim P8050004: P8050005: P8050003: P8050002: The guy we bought that material from later learned he had been using a made up name. GIA told him that material is a rock dominated by a mineral lawsonite. So the marketing changed. |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 22, 2017 5:35:21 GMT -5
Ps. It was already glued to the stick. Curious, why is it glued to a stick ? |
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wampidytoo
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Post by wampidytoo on Oct 22, 2017 10:06:20 GMT -5
Wow, way different than mine. Mine has some yellow in it (the part I don't like) but it is a haze instead of nice pieces of yellow. I have or had a piece that had more yellow than blue but I could not find a photo of it. I have a feeling yours will polish better than mine too. My black doesn't polish much and the rest gets mostly a luster and some less but the blue G is a lot tougher than jasper but more breakable than jade. Yours looks better than mine and I would have to take a slice off of it just to see what I could do with it. Jim P8050004: P8050005: P8050003: P8050002: The guy we bought that material from later learned he had been using a made up name. GIA told him that material is a rock dominated by a mineral lawsonite. So the marketing changed. Not clear whether you are talking about my material or Tommy's. I remember back when you were going around and around with the seller/miner of this material. |
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