CLErocks
spending too much on rocks
Member since October 2021
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Post by CLErocks on Nov 16, 2021 17:22:21 GMT -5
ooooooohhhhhh, dark! I like it a LOT!
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 16, 2021 17:38:15 GMT -5
Interesting.... and beautiful.
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Post by RickB on Nov 16, 2021 17:44:59 GMT -5
Nice, but could it be dacite?
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Post by jasoninsd on Nov 16, 2021 17:49:50 GMT -5
Way cool JV!  I would have bet (almost) anything that was obsidian by looking at the rough! |
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Post by RickB on Nov 16, 2021 19:16:50 GMT -5
Black Butter Dacite is a popular igneous rock in the flint knapping circles. I have some in the back yard and have made many points from it. Conchoidal fracture, is opaque with a dull gloss/matte look and is very very fine grained, unlike obsidian which is slick and more glass like.    |
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adrian65
Cave Dweller 
Arch to golden memories and to great friends.
Member since February 2007
Posts: 10,790
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Post by adrian65 on Nov 16, 2021 23:11:54 GMT -5
Beautiful!
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Post by holajonathan on Nov 17, 2021 1:56:40 GMT -5
Cool stuff! I don't think I've ever sen anything mohs 7ish that is truly black.
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Darkness
Nov 17, 2021 3:29:13 GMT -5
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Post by knave on Nov 17, 2021 3:29:13 GMT -5
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Post by fernwood on Nov 17, 2021 5:53:03 GMT -5
I love the black cab. It reminds me of Victorian era Mourning Jewelry.
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Post by rmf on Nov 17, 2021 7:41:01 GMT -5
Looks like Anthracite coal. Where from?
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Post by knave on Nov 17, 2021 9:15:27 GMT -5
I love the black cab. It reminds me of Victorian era Mourning Jewelry. Beth sometime I would like to know how you came to know about such things as Victorian Era Mourning Jewelry I have completely misplaced my set of mourning jewelry. Lol |
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Post by rmf on Nov 17, 2021 19:41:29 GMT -5
Looks like Anthracite coal. Where from? It’s from southern oregon, a single pocket of the stuff was mined and yielded maybe 400lbs. How hard? How dense? |
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Post by fernwood on Nov 18, 2021 7:37:00 GMT -5
I love the black cab. It reminds me of Victorian era Mourning Jewelry. Beth sometime I would like to know how you came to know about such things as Victorian Era Mourning Jewelry I have completely misplaced my set of mourning jewelry. Lol Evan, here you go... My daughter, grandson and I are the only living descendants of a family, going back to the early 1800's. I grew up in my G-Grandparents homestead. His sister lived with them after a logging accident took her husbands life in the mid to late 1800's. I have some of her and my G-Grandmas mourning jewelry and mourning clothing. My family kept and told me about lots of things in the house I grew up in and later moved back to. It was common for the wives of deceased to wear black clothing and jewelry for a while after. |
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Post by knave on Nov 18, 2021 8:45:43 GMT -5
Thank you Beth that is fascinating. I knew of the black clothing custom, but the jewelry thing is new to me. Very interesting indeed.
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Post by fernwood on Nov 18, 2021 9:13:30 GMT -5
Sometimes, hair of the deceased was also worn as jewelry or added to the black jewelry. The bezel for jewelry was made from braided hair at times, or a locket with black stones/beads and hair was also common.
Memorial embroidery with the hair of deceased was also done.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Nov 18, 2021 9:17:34 GMT -5
Thank you Beth that is fascinating. I knew of the black clothing custom, but the jewelry thing is new to me. Very interesting indeed. Here's a little history on mourning jewelry, Evan. They used to also use the deceased's hair in it.
ETA: Beth and I were posting at the same time.  |
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Post by knave on Nov 18, 2021 10:03:52 GMT -5
3 ladies in my house with very long hair. I could probably make some jewelry just with what I pull off my clothes in a day. Haha. Just kidding but it is bad.
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 18, 2021 10:05:28 GMT -5
3 ladies in my house with very long hair. I could probably make some jewelry just with what I pull off my clothes in a day. Haha. Just kidding but it is bad. OMG! My granddaughter and I have long hair. You should see the beater bar on our vacuum! Ugh. |
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NDK
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
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Post by NDK on Nov 19, 2021 6:55:05 GMT -5
Here’s an oddball, what do you think about this black jasper?  That is a beautiful cab! If you do buy the lot of it I'd be interested in a chunk if you're willing to sell or trade a piece. @jadedvision |
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Post by Rockoonz on Nov 19, 2021 8:21:23 GMT -5
@jadedvision I have a single piece of some black "jasper" from the Biggs area from the guy who collected it, has that glassy look with long conchoidal fractures like yours. By any chance is it from around the sunstone area? There are pockets of a highly silicified basanite around an old caldera out there, I use it for backing and intarsia. The spiderman/spiderwoman "jaspers" in Idaho are also a basanite.
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