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Post by oregon on Jun 9, 2021 16:51:06 GMT -5
Brazilians are hard to hate, as over popular as they seem, Cut a few 'baby Brazillians in half' and this one was a pleasant surprise out of the tumbler...  yeah, pleasant but boring, but the B side is pretty nifty!  Bonus points if anyone can identify the main green rock, think it's some sort of eastern Oregon Jasper... Estate sale find in an old bucket - old as in rusty metal 5 gallon bucket (before the days of plastic) full of water. All of the pcs have a pleasant rusty patina letting everyone else pass them up... Some lighter areas but sorta orby type of jasper green/cream colored maybe a slight hint of blue?  |
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Post by amygdule on Jun 9, 2021 17:34:51 GMT -5
Nice Brazilian
I guess Blue Mountain Jasper for the green one.
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Post by jasoninsd on Jun 9, 2021 18:51:50 GMT -5
I love the "B" side!!! Wowzer! I also like the one just to the right of the unknown blue/green one in question.  |
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Post by stonemon on Jun 9, 2021 18:52:26 GMT -5
Definitely Blue Mountain... The long one above it to the left looks like Tahoma frog skin.
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Post by Brian on Jun 9, 2021 19:34:14 GMT -5
That is one beautiful B-side!
The rest of the mix is great, too. I like the one up and to the right of the B-side that looks like a purple obsidian.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jun 9, 2021 23:12:11 GMT -5
Very nice! Love that B side.
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Post by oregon on Jun 10, 2021 11:11:42 GMT -5
Definitely Blue Mountain... The long one above it to the left looks like Tahoma frog skin. yes on the frogskin.. this was kinda a kitchen sink, clear the deck, empty the bin, batch.
So has the Blue Mountain stuff been mined for a long time?( I know the claim recently changed hands and it was getting worked more... ) This estate had a lot of old stuff, I was figuring these were probably collected in the 70's give or take... amygdule |
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Post by amygdule on Jun 10, 2021 11:38:53 GMT -5
So has the Blue Mountain stuff been mined for a long time?( I know the claim recently changed hands and it was getting worked more... ) This estate had a lot of old stuff, I was figuring these were probably collected in the 70's give or take...
An article from 2008 www.rockngem.com/bruneau-pattern-jasper-multi-state-discoveries/ |
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Post by oregon on Jun 10, 2021 20:30:06 GMT -5
Thanks for that, interesting reading.... My actual first thought when I chipped a pc open that this might be Morrisonite... There aren't any really large pcs, but there were still some remnants of Bruneau & Trent floating around at that sale ( I should go fight the crowds sometime, but hate that) ... no one wanted a bucket of old rusty rocks  I'll have to cut some more sometime. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jun 10, 2021 20:44:40 GMT -5
So has the Blue Mountain stuff been mined for a long time?( I know the claim recently changed hands and it was getting worked more... ) This estate had a lot of old stuff, I was figuring these were probably collected in the 70's give or take...
An article from 2008 www.rockngem.com/bruneau-pattern-jasper-multi-state-discoveries/That last sentence is interesting. There's been a batch of Blue Mountain auctions on eBay for decent sized rocks over the last month or two... |
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Post by beefjello on Jun 10, 2021 20:58:23 GMT -5
That's a Beauty of a B side!  |
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Post by amygdule on Jun 10, 2021 21:01:54 GMT -5
That last sentence is interesting. There's been a batch of Blue Mountain auctions on eBay for decent sized rocks over the last month or two... That's an old article from 2008. The mine was reopened a few years ago. Here's a tumbled piece of Blue Mtn that I have sitting on my desk.  |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 10, 2021 21:20:44 GMT -5
That last sentence is interesting. There's been a batch of Blue Mountain auctions on eBay for decent sized rocks over the last month or two... , from some old information (May and June 2017) on a now defunct rock forum, the original owner died (sometime previous to that post), and Dale, owner of the Polka Dot mine now also owns the Blue Mountain claim. He had plans at that time to build storage and set up permanent sales from all his claims at the Polka Dot. That may explain the recent sightings of BM on eBay. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jun 10, 2021 21:36:43 GMT -5
That last sentence is interesting. There's been a batch of Blue Mountain auctions on eBay for decent sized rocks over the last month or two... That's an old article from 2008. The mine was reopened a few years ago. Here's a tumbled piece of Blue Mtn that I have sitting on my desk. That's a gorgeous piece of BM! I didn't realize the mine had reopened. It definitely brings in some high dollars in the auctions! LOL That last sentence is interesting. There's been a batch of Blue Mountain auctions on eBay for decent sized rocks over the last month or two... , from some old information (May and June 2017) on a now defunct rock forum, the original owner died (sometime previous to that post), and Dale, owner of the Polka Dot mine now also owns the Blue Mountain claim. He had plans at that time to build storage and set up permanent sales from all his claims at the Polka Dot. That may explain the recent sightings of BM on eBay. Whatever amount is sitting in storage, it needs to be guarded like Fort Knox...as this stuff is apparently just as valuable as gold! LOL |
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Post by stonemon on Jun 10, 2021 21:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jun 10, 2021 23:04:14 GMT -5
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Post by stefan on Jun 11, 2021 14:05:04 GMT -5
Nice!
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I'll have to cut some more sometime. 
