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Post by puppie96 on Nov 14, 2004 3:27:08 GMT -5
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 14, 2004 3:28:07 GMT -5
Forgot the size ref., it's about 2 inches.
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Nov 14, 2004 3:31:32 GMT -5
Two inches of awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 14, 2004 3:55:26 GMT -5
Well now, I posted it like you told me to!
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Nov 14, 2004 4:04:27 GMT -5
It's really impressive material, Pup, looking forward with anticipation at what else you have.
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 14, 2004 8:14:37 GMT -5
extremely cool rock! can't wait to see it finished! kinda looks like a botswana agate. do you have more like that? would love to slice some like that!
KD
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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 14, 2004 9:22:37 GMT -5
how cool and what again did they say it was at the rock show??
kim
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llanago
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Post by llanago on Nov 14, 2004 9:43:40 GMT -5
That's definitely a beauty, can't wait to see if finished. Although, I gotta admit I think it was kinda cool lookin' with the "warts".  llana |
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 14, 2004 14:26:54 GMT -5
Hi -- "Missouri Agate."
Haha. I picked it up locally and we live in MO.
Gee guys, I didn't have to go all the way to the rock show to work that out!
Actually, several people looked at that one and a couple of others, and nobody said anything very definitive, one guy said it looked like I'd picked up some Union Road agates, another said Missouri Lace. These seem to be the best known agates in this state (there are pictures of them here and there on agate web sites.)
I also like the "warts" and have been trying to grind things gently enough to preserve some of that texture. However, as they begin to grind, some of them are also banded like eyes. I'm not far along with this stuff to know exactly what I'm going to get. Surprise colors have been turning up inside some of these.
I've got pretty much of the stuff, although that particular piece is especially nice because it seems to be solid through, so far, and it's not irregularly shaped.
Thanks for looking, everybody!
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Post by connrock on Nov 14, 2004 15:01:10 GMT -5
Very interesting pup!! I know a woman that also lives in MO and she has given me several "Lakers" she's found in the Mississippi River.I just finished polishing a few of them and they are very unique and pretty.They are only about 1/2"-5/8" in diameter and nowhere as large as the rocks you have. She has also given me 2 -5 gallon buckets of some other sort of agate found there in the river.I don't know what they are called but they have river worn druzy quartz on them.She says they are only good for "yard rocks" but I've cut some of them and some have a real surprise inside!! Yea,,,Yea,,,Yea,,,,,I know,,,,,,,, Pictures!!LOL Tom  |
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Post by shorty on Nov 14, 2004 16:21:06 GMT -5
hi all pup it kinda looks like a brain but nice show us some more pic
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Post by cookie3rocks on Nov 14, 2004 18:11:52 GMT -5
So, where you live you can just bend over and pick this stuff up? Lucky pregnant dog  I've got a couple of pieces of something similar in coarse right now. I love the fact that the back and front are so different. I'm thinking they will make great "revesable" pendants. cookie |
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Post by docone31 on Nov 14, 2004 18:16:39 GMT -5
Wow, I love it. I think it is petrified brain fart however. The striations give it away. It looks like a brain out of a dinosaur that saw the comet and tried to understand it.
Huge brain fart then splat!!!! Road kill.
Not too many people have a piece of petrified brain fart. That is not something you see every day.
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Post by Cher on Nov 14, 2004 18:37:23 GMT -5
WOW I love it! Great banding, that could be really fun to work with. How much of that did you say you had? Thanks for posting the pics, it's so much nicer to see the inside.
Cher
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 14, 2004 22:50:50 GMT -5
Bunch of interesting questions/comments:
Tom, it's true that you see a lot of this stuff as yard rock. The nodules with the quartz crystals or drusy quartz are popular.
Shorty and Doc, locals also refer to some of this rock as "brain" and there are more "brainier" ones than the one I posted all over the place!
Cookie, pretty much just bend over and pick it up. These past 2 weekends with the good stuff was about an hour's drive away. It was just lying there in the gravel bar and the flood plain by a creek/small river. It's in a mining area.
I brought back some "boulders" of this stuff, the size of cinder blocks anyhow, today I was smashing some of them with a maul. Actually I'm not sure it's all the same stuff, but it's from the same locale and looked promising.
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agatenut
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Post by agatenut on Nov 15, 2004 5:32:08 GMT -5
WOW! puppie, it's awesome! It looks also like some of the stuff I find in south texas. Quite the show stopper. Be careful about the grinding. Don't want to lose too much of the color. Usually what I do with my agates now is put them directly into medium in my vibrating tumbler. They don't get smoothly rounded, but the river has already done most of that and there's something to be said for preserving their natural shape. I've lost the colors of too many agates due to overtumbling on coarse. But, once again WOW!!!
ralph
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 15, 2004 11:34:43 GMT -5
Hey Ralph,
We need to talk about this more! That's been my problem, when I try to grind them smooth I lose a lot of color and also a lot of banding, which sometimes is just the top layer. I just speeded a batch through, and it polished, but I think it is still just too rough and irregular and I should try to get more of the matrix off. Certainly, though, the polished areas are beautiful.
It is definitely tricky.
The photo at the top of this thread, though, came from an area which seems to have for the most part more solid pieces and banding that goes all the way through.
Thanks for looking,
pup
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Nov 17, 2004 15:36:37 GMT -5
Hello Pup,
Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why our Creator burried some of his most beautiful art work in the dirt?
Definitely a gorgeous stone!
John
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agatenut
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Post by agatenut on Nov 18, 2004 6:27:27 GMT -5
Perhaps He/She did it so we would work at it. Nothing worthwhile comes easy and we do value what we find. Think about it. It's like going back to our childhood Easter egg hunts. Remember the joy of discovery? Awesome "egg" pup! hehehe
ralph
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 19, 2004 1:23:33 GMT -5
There's something about bringing out the hidden beauty, along with seeing it in something seemingly ordinary.
There's the treasure hunt aspect, big time.
The excitement of the search.
I've gone to Crater of Diamonds 3 times, it's been hours of frustrating and dirty labor and all I have to show for it is a spackle bucket or 2 or 3 full of unsearched gravel. Not to mention that Murfreesboro Arkansas is the Crater of H*e*l*l. Would I go back if I had the opportunity? Take an educated guess.
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