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Post by stephan on Mar 24, 2021 22:05:23 GMT -5
Had to wait a few days to post this on Odin's Day.  Finished this one up the other night. Mariposa Poppy Jasper courtesy of stephan. The red is on the surface layers and the white is on a lower layer. I wish I could get pics that would capture this effect...   Yeah, the 3D effect of poppies is hard to photograph. Great cab and great wrap, though, even if the pic doesn’t do it justice |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 24, 2021 22:38:15 GMT -5
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Post by saxplayer on Mar 24, 2021 23:03:03 GMT -5
Dear LORD some of the best i've seen lol. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Mar 24, 2021 23:23:50 GMT -5
Dang Paul...just...dang! I thought this was supposed to show some orbs...not THE HOLY GRAIL(s)!  |
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 25, 2021 6:14:56 GMT -5
Wow Paul, I've been a poppy fancier for years and I've never seen some of those color combinations you are finding in Morgan Hill material. Wonderful display. Thanks for posting them. The first example and next to last are truly remarkable.
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Post by Brian on Mar 25, 2021 7:03:36 GMT -5
I’ll just echo the others, Paul, because those have left me at a loss for words.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2021 12:56:09 GMT -5
Wow Paul, I've been a poppy fancier for years and I've never seen some of those color combinations you are finding in Morgan Hill material. Wonderful display. Thanks for posting them. The first example and next to last are truly remarkable. Since living in Gilroy(10 Minutes south of Morgan Hill) My stream/ creek hikes have taken me far and wide Through the surrounding areas, There are many miles of unexplored rough Terrain with the Franciscan formations that Are poppy-able. |
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 25, 2021 20:40:59 GMT -5
Very cool you can still access those areas. Back in the day, I heard one of the land owners got so frustrated with rockhounds that he had a whole outcrop of poppy jasper ground up for gravel and destroyed. However none of the jasper from that deposit was a fancy as what you are finding. Most I saw from that site was the regular red on yellow stuff mostly lacking in those fantastic concentric circles in your examples. When the Calif. State Mineral Museum was in the old Ferry Building at San Francisco they had a poppy display that had some material similar to yours and they called it "Paradise Jasper". My old collecting buddy is going with his club to a field trip on Big Sandy Creek in bit. He and I used to know a rancher there and had access. There was some really wild poppy there too. Some had a trace of blue and one type had bands of red, yellow and pistachio green with poppies of mildly contrasting colors. When I moved to Texas I forgot and left an unfractured boulder of that in my yard. Unusual find as most Big Sandy poppy I found was really badly fractured. Surprisingly all the Stone Canyon type jasper the creek is famous for was not was not.
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Post by stephan on Mar 31, 2021 17:41:00 GMT -5
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Post by stephan on Apr 4, 2021 1:05:30 GMT -5
Oh, wow!
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Post by stephan on Apr 7, 2021 17:42:29 GMT -5
A recent slablet, shown dry, under natural light.  DSC_3528_Some Morgan Hill poppy jasper with some different colors by Stephan T., on Flickr I'm hoping to have time to cab this weekend. This will be on the short list. There are some slight fractures on the back side, but they don't appear to go through. Wish me luck (both with rock stability and some gaps in the honey-do list). |
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Post by jasoninsd on Apr 7, 2021 19:24:49 GMT -5
A recent slablet, shown dry, under natural light. DSC_3528_Some Morgan Hill poppy jasper with some different colors by Stephan T., on Flickr I'm hoping to have time to cab this weekend. This will be on the short list. There are some slight fractures on the back side, but they don't appear to go through. Wish me luck (both with rock stability and some gaps in the honey-do list).  (Just to be clear...there are TWO fingers sticking up on his left hand! LOL) |
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Post by stephan on Apr 7, 2021 20:42:34 GMT -5
LOL! I see them both.
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Post by stephan on Apr 9, 2021 10:45:32 GMT -5
Very cool you can still access those areas. Back in the day, I heard one of the land owners got so frustrated with rockhounds that he had a whole outcrop of poppy jasper ground up for gravel and destroyed. However none of the jasper from that deposit was a fancy as what you are finding. Most I saw from that site was the regular red on yellow stuff mostly lacking in those fantastic concentric circles in your examples. When the Calif. State Mineral Museum was in the old Ferry Building at San Francisco they had a poppy display that had some material similar to yours and they called it "Paradise Jasper". My old collecting buddy is going with his club to a field trip on Big Sandy Creek in bit. He and I used to know a rancher there and had access. There was some really wild poppy there too. Some had a trace of blue and one type had bands of red, yellow and pistachio green with poppies of mildly contrasting colors. When I moved to Texas I forgot and left an unfractured boulder of that in my yard. Unusual find as most Big Sandy poppy I found was really badly fractured. Surprisingly all the Stone Canyon type jasper the creek is famous for was not was not. Excellent! We need more rock names. Hearing about PJ ground up into gravel always hurts. Knowing it was done because people were being selfish ___holes, and ruining it for everyone else, hurts even more. Count me as jealous for the trip to Big Sandy Creek. That stuff is definitely on my list of materials I'd love to get my hands on (but wish-fulfillment seems a tad unlikely). Leaving an unfractured piece of that (one big enough to be called a "boulder," no less) has got to hurt. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2021 21:48:23 GMT -5
Mr Reidell,
Of reidell Ranch location,one of the three or four
Well known collection sites
Was tired of people trespassing on his property.
And making a mess.
After hie passed away,
His wife opened up the property to collectors
For quite some time.
She sold the ranch, and today
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 10, 2021 5:49:25 GMT -5
Stephan,Yep, moving if you are both collectors moving is real chaos and I had other collections more important than rocks.. With a home and a ranch far apart that amazingly both sold for cash almost at the same time, I had so much rock I had several yard sales and had to sort my piles several times to reduce the load. In the haste to finish the move, I totally forgot all the rocks in the gardens with plants around them and left most all the rock I had on rock walls at the ranch. Since all the big boulders were too large to saw, that's where most wound up. I made five truckloads California to Texas myself and still had to have the mover move my entire slab collection. The three real heart breakers, in addition to the poppy and numerous Stone Canyon type jasper boulders, were a 50 pound block of Ocean Wave dolomite, a huge 75 or so pounder of rare rose agate from Ludlow, CA and a big lens of Porterville jade I had as a dang stepping stone in the garden. When I think of the dang rough country I packed all that jade and jasper out of on my back and then forgot them....dang!
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Post by jasoninsd on May 26, 2021 14:25:22 GMT -5
Here's a couple shots from a Teepee Canyon Agate I cabbed yesterday. There are small orbs surrounding most of the fortifications.   |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on May 26, 2021 22:10:49 GMT -5
Here's a couple shots from a Teepee Canyon Agate I cabbed yesterday. There are small orbs surrounding most of the fortifications. They're so cute! |
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