RWA3006
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Post by RWA3006 on Nov 5, 2021 19:38:38 GMT -5
RWA3006 That jade is a fantastic find! I'll bet it would bring a big price in HK. It would make a wonderful large carving. I believe so and even better I can hold a flashlight against a corner and light is visible to about three inches. Can't bring myself to sell it though. |
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Post by rmf on Nov 5, 2021 19:47:38 GMT -5
A guy ordered a Lortone Lu6x-120 and I offered to deliver it to him free (about 170 miles) because I wanted to hunt in the area. He gave me some black coral as a tip.
Found (in a rock shop) a boule of Victoria stone and purchased it. been afraid to cut it. I have heard you have to grind off the skin first or it will shatter. They sell for about a grand on ebay and I don't want to trash it.
Found a 70 million year old Crocodile (Thoracosaurus neocesariensis) the skull and some other parts.
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Post by oregon on Nov 5, 2021 20:08:57 GMT -5
My absolute rarest material, to my knowledge, is the small pile of slabs of poppy jasper from a single piece found in the Skykomish river on the Olympic Peninsula in WA. A fairly short lived Ebay slab seller knew the person who found it, slabbed it, and sold the slabs for them, I was able to score several slabs, plus I bought her end cuts. Here's the only cab I've cut from it so far.  Do you know what the host material here is? I just did a quick run of a friend's orbicular jasper from that region, the host sorta looked like hematite, but different... 'bout time for another wander around the Olympics... hmm don't know why my upload isn't showing...
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 5, 2021 20:37:52 GMT -5
Enjoying this thread! The rarest specimen I ever found in the field is this 60-70 pound muttonfat nephrite boulder in Wyoming which is well known for jade but not white jade.  I also scored some rare Hawaiian black coral and Victoria stone in an estate sale.   SCORE! That jade is amazing!!! The green Victoriastone is gorgeous, too. |
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 5, 2021 20:40:21 GMT -5
My absolute rarest material, to my knowledge, is the small pile of slabs of poppy jasper from a single piece found in the Skykomish river on the Olympic Peninsula in WA. A fairly short lived Ebay slab seller knew the person who found it, slabbed it, and sold the slabs for them, I was able to score several slabs, plus I bought her end cuts. Here's the only cab I've cut from it so far. Do you know what the host material here is? I just did a quick run of a friend's orbicular jasper from that region, the host sorta looked like hematite, but different... 'bout time for another wander around the Olympics... hmm don't know why my upload isn't showing...
A couple of those are a dead ringer for peanut obsidian. I know they aren't, but they're cool. Nice orbiculars. |
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quartzilla
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Post by quartzilla on Nov 5, 2021 21:26:03 GMT -5
Self collected from the Crabtree Emerald Mine in NC - Emerald crystals   Self collected from Graves Mountain in GA - Rutile crystals   Self collected Corundum from Clay County, NC  Just wow on those rutile crystals. I’ve read many of the old articles on collecting rutile there and was under the impression it was all collected out. Bravo Good Sir! |
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Mark K
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Post by Mark K on Nov 5, 2021 22:03:17 GMT -5
No one is going to beat Diane though. Her fish is once in a lifetime.
I found what may be a thousand dollar chunk of gem silica. Diane was with.
I also found a blue MT agate and 2 fairburnes in the general area of Glendive.
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Post by Mark K on Nov 5, 2021 22:04:22 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that I found a fossil deposit that no one else has found yet. I leave stuff there and find it years later untouched.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 5, 2021 22:41:35 GMT -5
No one is going to beat Diane though. Her fish is once in a lifetime. I found what may be a thousand dollar chunk of gem silica. Diane was with. I also found a blue MT agate and 2 fairburnes in the general area of Glendive. Mark, did Diane find a fish, too? I think you may be thinking of the one I found at Brenda. Diane drocknut (or was it Jim Wampidy? Lol) found a nice piece of that pretty blue gem silica stuff, also at Brenda. Was going to post some pics of the fossil fish, will try to get it tomorrow. Was trying to think of anything else that fits the bill! |
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Post by Rockoonz on Nov 6, 2021 10:39:46 GMT -5
My absolute rarest material, to my knowledge, is the small pile of slabs of poppy jasper from a single piece found in the Skykomish river on the Olympic Peninsula in WA. A fairly short lived Ebay slab seller knew the person who found it, slabbed it, and sold the slabs for them, I was able to score several slabs, plus I bought her end cuts. Here's the only cab I've cut from it so far. Do you know what the host material here is? I just did a quick run of a friend's orbicular jasper from that region, the host sorta looked like hematite, but different... 'bout time for another wander around the Olympics... hmm don't know why my upload isn't showing... The Olympic poppy jaspers seem to have plenty of that hematite like stuff in it. My Skyhomish material appears to have a bunch of almost Psilomelane like banding in the darker part, and seen in person it's full of little ghost red poppies that I assume are red due to hematite coloring. It definitely cuts real messy. I wish I understood the geology enough to be able to know what makes it up. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 6, 2021 11:02:09 GMT -5
Fossil fish found in Brenda jasper on RTH field trip to Brenda (AZ) in 2014.  No idea on type of fish, and this will remain a specimen. |
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Post by miket on Nov 6, 2021 13:07:28 GMT -5
Very cool, Jean!!!
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Post by mohs on Nov 6, 2021 21:02:19 GMT -5
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Post by stephan on Nov 7, 2021 1:21:21 GMT -5
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Nov 7, 2021 4:29:26 GMT -5
Here is some I found at a rock shop near Tucson that was going out of business, everything was a $1#. Yeah, I saw that piece but I left it for you  That rock sale is one of my few regrets in life - that I walked away too early. I spent about $200 there but it wasn't nearly enough. |
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Post by fernwood on Nov 7, 2021 6:53:32 GMT -5
First was self found. Hiked in with two 4-H clubs the 3 miles from road. A very remote area in Rusk County, WI, Forest land. The area is called Gundy's Canyon and the Devils Kettle. Rock Creek runs through it. At one time, the largest volcanic range in the USA was there. The glaciers came and the dormant volcanoes were sheered off. There was not a lot of water flowing through at the time, so I decided to explore. Found this in one of the crevice's to the left of lower falls. It had traveled with me many miles during moves. Sorry, but it is very dusty now. I need to carefully clean it. The crystals appear to be feldspar. They are very fragile and easily break off. The host rock might be of volcanic origin. Some have said it is just slag from mining iron, but I do not agree with that. The closest mine to the area is located about 30 miles away. It was a gold/silver/copper mine, active in the 1990's. This piece is only slightly magnetic in places. A great find in a beautiful area.     ]   The second one was "found" on the Combo Unit I was purchasing. It was covered in dust, but I could make out the label. The slab is about 7" long. I paid $5.00 for it. I have the shadow box and lighting to mount it. Just have not had time to do so. To me, this is way too rare/beautiful to cut for cabs.    I have posted both of these on RTH before, but wanted to share to this thread. |
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wpotterw
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Post by wpotterw on Nov 7, 2021 8:36:13 GMT -5
 Meg tooth, $25 "found" at a Bloomsburg, PA flea market 20+ years ago. Lived in Southern MD from 2010-2020. The geology was 400+ feet of clay, sand, gravel and some large quartz cobbles. The creek behind our property cut a deep v-shaped ravine and my neighbor found a spot where fossils were eroding from the stream bank. He found a pristine 3" meg tooth and a 1.5" Tiger shark tooth. Over the course of a few months, we found multiple 3" - 4" bivalves, porpoise vertebrae and other parts. I don't think he has found another tooth since. |
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Post by pauls on Nov 7, 2021 16:34:35 GMT -5
I found a Zircon crystal about the size of my clenched fist, it was covered in Calcite but had a small chip off one corner so I could see the beautiful orange Zircon inside.
I didn't take a photo, "I will wait till I clean this up before taking a picture" brought it home and soaked it in some dilute hydrochloric acid to remove the Calcite coating, lots of fizzing happening, I came out the next morning and found the whole thing had been held together with the Calcite, it had been a mass of fractures with Calcite in them, I was left with a pile of pieces of nice orange Zircon for cutting but no specimen.
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Mark K
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Post by Mark K on Nov 7, 2021 17:07:02 GMT -5
No one is going to beat Diane though. Her fish is once in a lifetime. I found what may be a thousand dollar chunk of gem silica. Diane was with. I also found a blue MT agate and 2 fairburnes in the general area of Glendive. Mark, did Diane find a fish, too? I think you may be thinking of the one I found at Brenda. Diane drocknut (or was it Jim Wampidy? Lol) found a nice piece of that pretty blue gem silica stuff, also at Brenda. Was going to post some pics of the fossil fish, will try to get it tomorrow. Was trying to think of anything else that fits the bill! Sure enough, I got the finder mixed up. |
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That rock sale is one of my few regrets in life - that I walked away too early. I spent about $200 there but it wasn't nearly enough.
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