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Post by beefjello on May 4, 2021 20:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by mohs on May 4, 2021 20:15:36 GMT -5
caramely 
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Post by hummingbirdstones on May 4, 2021 20:48:53 GMT -5
Hey folks! Been a crazy couple weeks without much rock time. I did finally manage to sneak one in the vise.. an agate with feathery edges similar to an Oco geode. Any guesses on an ID?   Floating fortifications developed. Pretty cool, pretty neat.     Thanks for taking a look!  I have no idea what it is, but it's beautiful! Nougaty even.  |
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Post by beefjello on May 4, 2021 20:53:01 GMT -5
Dulce de leche even!  |
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on May 4, 2021 20:58:57 GMT -5
Don't know. Not like any we've found in our limited hounding around here.
If I was I'd have to go try to find more.
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Post by beefjello on May 4, 2021 21:04:32 GMT -5
Don't know. Not like any we've found in our limited hounding around here.
If I was I'd have to go try to find more.
Yeah Vince, I did not collect this one myself. Hoping it's recognizable to someone who hounds where things like this are found. |
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Post by Garage Rocker on May 4, 2021 22:26:30 GMT -5
Don't know. Not like any we've found in our limited hounding around here.
If I was I'd have to go try to find more.
Yeah Vince, I did not collect this one myself. Hoping it's recognizable to someone who hounds where things like this are found. Not Kentucky. Beautiful things like this are found around here in flat rate boxes. |
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Post by fernwood on May 5, 2021 4:34:22 GMT -5
Yeah Vince, I did not collect this one myself. Hoping it's recognizable to someone who hounds where things like this are found. Not Kentucky. Beautiful things like this are found around here in flat rate boxes. Some of my best finds have been in flat rate boxes, lol. That is a beautiful agate. |
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Post by jasoninsd on May 5, 2021 15:33:30 GMT -5
What the heck...I thought I posted in this thread yesterday... I can see some slabs there just BEGGING to have some cabs made out of them! LOL Gorgeous slabs...the look like artistic lattes to me! |
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Post by stefan on May 5, 2021 16:37:01 GMT -5
Oh damn that's where I dropped that rock. Yea Beef I think that is an agate know as Stefanite. Just send it along to me. No seriously at first I thought oooh nice Montana, then I was like oh a nice Black skin, Then I was all WTF is that man!
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on May 5, 2021 21:35:44 GMT -5
beefjello - My first thought was New Mexico - but you find so many cool rocks locally I figured it was something you'd hounded.
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Post by Garage Rocker on May 5, 2021 21:57:29 GMT -5
I keep coming back. Those fortifications in the last several pics are definitely worthy of return viewing, but don't sleep on the slab in the second photo. A little bit of everything going on.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 6, 2021 14:12:04 GMT -5
Very nice but it has me stumped. Never seen that except in Ocos. However, Ocos do come from Rio Grande do Sol where Brazilians come from and form the same way as gas pocket nodules. Best guess would be a large Oco solid or an off type Brazilian.
PS: Went into my Johann Zenz Agate Book Volune #1 He calls those "Cloud Agates" and they are in his Brazilian Agate section. Has a nice pic of a solid example. Not fortified like yours but also that caramel color.
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Post by Tommy on May 6, 2021 19:47:00 GMT -5
Gorgeous stone ... every time I see you have posted a rock thread I quickly get my bib out and put it on because I know I'm in for a treat.  My guess is something Mexican - some Coyamito I've seen have a very similar carmel brown outer layer agate under the skin with a fortification pattern in the center. Now.... lets get down to the REAL situation here which is those slabs are BEGGING to be made into a large-ass "floater" cabochon... coincidentally there's a "large cabochons" cab contest going on on the forum but I digress...  |
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Post by beefjello on Jun 1, 2021 19:25:34 GMT -5
Very nice but it has me stumped. Never seen that except in Ocos. However, Ocos do come from Rio Grande do Sol where Brazilians come from and form the same way as gas pocket nodules. Best guess would be a large Oco solid or an off type Brazilian. PS: Went into my Johann Zenz Agate Book Volune #1 He calls those "Cloud Agates" and they are in his Brazilian Agate section. Has a nice pic of a solid example. Not fortified like yours but also that caramel color. Wow, thanks a bunch Mel! That points me in the right direction anyway.  Tommy wish I could have entered your mock up in the cab contest.. that looks way better than anything I could cut right now lol Sorry I haven’t been on much folks. We just bought our ‘retirement’ home last month. It’s up north out of the big shitty city, and any and all free time I have lately has been dedicated to getting it ready. |
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Post by AzRockGeek on Jun 2, 2021 11:50:00 GMT -5
Congrats!!! Are we neighbors up North?
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Post by beefjello on Jun 4, 2021 8:39:20 GMT -5
Congrats!!! Are we neighbors up North? Hey Tim! We didn't quite make it up to the mountain. We're down on the river... just a stone's throw away  |
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Post by kyoti on Jun 9, 2021 20:03:20 GMT -5
It's a stunning agate! I'd love to know what it is as well. I found a waterline agate with wisps like yours in a consignment box a while back. Looks like it could come from the same area.  |
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Post by Peruano on Jun 10, 2021 8:04:22 GMT -5
Those feathery wisps occur in many chalcedony clusters (nodules) and appear to be the same as in oco agates. The description of oco agates implies a special fiber structure producing the structures so maybe it can appear in all forms of silica mineralizations. The quartz page author discusses ocos in the chalcedony section as well as the agate section (he does not consider them real agates). I think the ones you all depict here are "real" agates. Just thinking outload.
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Post by amygdule on Jun 10, 2021 9:52:46 GMT -5
I've found those whispy plumes in limb casts on the Oregon Coast.  |
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