A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy)

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A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy) Mar 2, 2021 18:46:41 GMT -5 QuailRiver, RickB, and 15 more like this

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Hi all

I'm so far behind in posting these some are a few weeks old, but it takes a long time for cabbage to go bad, so here are a few sorta recent efforts...

San Carlos Moss Agate. I liked the contrast of bright red and yellow together.

San Carlos Moss Agate, Mexico by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Biggs Picture Jasper.

Biggs Picture Jasper by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Graveyard Point from the 2019 trip. Has a small boytroidal pocket in the middle

Graveyard Point Plume Agate, Oregon by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Mexican Chrysocolla. Good hard material but the color runs a little uneven.

Mexican Chrysocholla by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Quetzal flowergarden agate from Mexico. I'm always looking for the plumes. From rough bought at Tucson last year.

Quetzal Flower Garden Agate, Mexico by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Mescalero Jasper. From Jeff at Silverhill.

Mescalero Jasper, Nevada by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Prudent Man agate. Vein #1.

Prudent Man Plume Agate, Vein #1 by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

San Carlos gold moss from Mexico.

San Carlos Golden Moss, Mexico by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Feather Ridge agate. A little heel piece that turned out okay.

Feather Ridge Plume Agate by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Arizona shattuckite. Well agatized hard material mostly, but enough soft stuff to make it a bear to get a smooth glassy finish. The second cab is a big one, about 60 mm. The colors on both are better than in the pictures. They are a very unique blue/green that the camera won't capture.

Arizona Shattuckite by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Arizona Shattuckite by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Mystery Plume Agate. From the chunk I picked up a couple years ago at Quartzsite. The seller thought it was from Arizona.

Mystery Plume Agate by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

And last but not least, a little Moroccan Ahouli agate that bears a striking resemblance to a Rhino. I left it flat to save the image and I think it needs more work on the right side of the shape, but I'm kind of afraid to mess with it now...haha.

Moroccan Seam Agate Rhino by Craig Uhlig, on Flickr

Now I need to take more pictures...Hope you all enjoy...

Craig

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A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy) Mar 2, 2021 18:52:34 GMT -5 socalagatehound and 1dave like this

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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 2, 2021 18:52:34 GMT -5

Wowzer, Craig!

Gorgeous, gorgeous cabs. I can't even pick out a favorite. Funny though that the Quetzal and the mystery plume both look very similar.

Great to see you post again!

Robin

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A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy) Mar 2, 2021 19:55:19 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones likes this

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Mar 2, 2021 18:52:34 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones said:

Wowzer, Craig!

Gorgeous, gorgeous cabs. I can't even pick out a favorite. Funny though that the Quetzal and the mystery plume both look very similar.

Great to see you post again!

Thanks! They're not too far apart. The Quetzal for sure has brighter colors. You have to really look for spots with colors other than brown in the mystery rock.

Craig

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Mar 2, 2021 19:45:22 GMT -5 HankRocks said:

They are all great. The Mystery Plume is somewhat familiar. Need to do some digging and see if I can find something I have that is similar.

Henry

If you can find something that would shed some light on it that would be cool. When I first got it, the seller was the daughter of a recently passed rockhound and she was selling a lot of big chunks of random rock. This was the only piece of plume and it was about 20 lbs. She said that as far as she knew, he rarely bought rock and he collected mostly in Arizona.
After I cut it, I shared pictures with some friends who are plume hounds, who asked others, and the consensus was " I don't know ". The most specific suggestion came from Pat McMahon, who suggested Arizona agate mine.
So, still a mystery, at least for the time being.

Craig

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A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy) Mar 2, 2021 20:24:06 GMT -5 socalagatehound likes this

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Post by jasoninsd on Mar 2, 2021 20:24:06 GMT -5

Craig, firstly the material you worked is off-the-charts amazing...just flat out stunning!

Secondly, the workmanship on all these cabs is something I'd like to strive to achieve! Phenomenal!

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A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy) Mar 2, 2021 20:42:45 GMT -5 socalagatehound likes this

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That is some fine looking cabbage! The color in that Shattuckite is phenomenal.

The Mexican Chrysocolla bears a strong resemblance to Monet's Water Lillies. Quite impressionistic.

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A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy) Mar 2, 2021 21:49:26 GMT -5 amygdule, socalagatehound, and 3 more like this

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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 2, 2021 21:49:26 GMT -5

socalagatehound Vince dug out a few pieces of Arizona Agate Mine (Flower Garden variety).

Robin

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A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy) Mar 3, 2021 0:51:02 GMT -5

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Those look exactly like what I would expect from the Arizona Agate Mine, but not a bit like the Mystery Plume..lol. I really didn't think there was much chance that was what it was. Thank Vince for digging them out. The search goes on....

Craig

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Post by HankRocks on Mar 3, 2021 10:24:30 GMT -5

socalagatehound Here's the ones I was thinking about that were just pulled out of Polish and before the burnishing run. It's close to your mystery plume, not quite.

IMG_2618 by Findrocks, on Flickr

It was from a rough biscuit shaped rock. As to where it's from, pretty sure it's not Woodward/Walker. As best I can remember it's out of a bucket of Lajitas Mesa(east) material. There was a lot of different material from the east side of the mesa, not a high quantity area, but lots of different types scattered about the slopes and washes. Un-fortunately 3 or 4 sections of the land was given to the Big Bend State Park, end of collecting.

Keeping rocks separated and identified is one problem I have when over the last 3 years I have purchased several tons of material from an old rockhound friend.

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Those are beautiful, Henry!

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Mar 3, 2021 8:37:10 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones2 said:

socalagatehound - You said the mystery cab was from a large chunk. Did it have any rind on it? If so, what did it look like?

That might be a good one for the ID board.

I'll pull out the slabs, line then up and look. I don't remember a rind. I slabbed the whole rock I think. Maybe a heel left with intact rind. I'll get back to you on that.

Craig

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A few different types of Cabbage (pic heavy) Mar 4, 2021 19:24:45 GMT -5

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Mar 3, 2021 10:24:30 GMT -5 HankRocks said:

socalagatehound Here's the ones I was thinking about that were just pulled out of Polish and before the burnishing run. It's close to your mystery plume, not quite.

IMG_2618 by Findrocks, on Flickr

It was from a rough biscuit shaped rock. As to where it's from, pretty sure it's not Woodward/Walker. As best I can remember it's out of a bucket of Lajitas Mesa(east) material. There was a lot of different material from the east side of the mesa, not a high quantity area, but lots of different types scattered about the slopes and washes. Un-fortunately 3 or 4 sections of the land was given to the Big Bend State Park, end of collecting.

Keeping rocks separated and identified is one problem I have when over the last 3 years I have purchased several tons of material from an old rockhound friend.

Henry

Pretty cabs and plumes, but, like you said, not an exact match. Once I cut something, slabs are all seperated into bins as to origin, except maybe some of the Mexican stuff that wasn't labeled when I got it but was too purdy to pass up. Rock piles are seperated too, mostly, but sometimes things roll...lol!

Thanks for looking!

Craig

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