hh5
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Post by hh5 on Jun 23, 2018 14:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by rmf on Jun 23, 2018 16:45:00 GMT -5
hh5 The first image is a granite breccia. Looks like a remelt with hotter quickly cooling granit thus the fine grain but with fractured pieces of granite that had cooled more slowly and thus you get a larger grain. The second images looks familiar but not distinctive. could be several things. do you know where it is from. It is agate but from where?
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Post by fernwood on Jun 23, 2018 16:49:35 GMT -5
Agree, the first is granite. The second looks like AZ petrified wood to me.
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hh5
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Post by hh5 on Jun 26, 2018 12:39:49 GMT -5
Hi RMF, Unfortunately I have no clue where the material came from. It was an estate find in Portland Oregon 10 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 13:25:34 GMT -5
For the 2nd: Richardson's used to have a seam agate they called "Sunset Agate" that had a very similar mix of colors (pinks, brown, red, white, sometimes lavender, ochre moss). Not the same as the "Sunset Ledge" jasper that also had those colors, and I don't know whether they still dig it (it doesn't appear on their current list). Just a possibility.
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AzRockGeek
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Post by AzRockGeek on Jun 26, 2018 13:31:58 GMT -5
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hh5
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Post by hh5 on Jun 29, 2018 14:54:26 GMT -5
Thanks rocks2dust and AzRockGeek, Does look a lot like the St John's flower agate.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 29, 2018 22:21:47 GMT -5
Yep. I'd go with St. Johns Flower agate too. The fracturing is one tell as the agate from that site tends to have a lot of fractures....Mel
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