Sabre52
Cave Dweller 
Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 9, 2005 16:30:54 GMT -5
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Post by Cher on Nov 9, 2005 16:51:02 GMT -5
Ooooooooooooo wow, that's pretty!!!
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SteveHolmes
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by SteveHolmes on Nov 9, 2005 17:09:02 GMT -5
Sabre,
That's spectacular Jasper! You've got a gold field in Jasper right there in your back yard. Thanks for the awesome pics.
Steve
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Post by Noosh9057 on Nov 9, 2005 17:34:03 GMT -5
Looks very nice.
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 9, 2005 18:33:23 GMT -5
 DROOL ALERT!too late, call in the clean up crew......dang, Sabre! KD
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Post by stoner on Nov 9, 2005 20:16:03 GMT -5
That's really some nice material Mel. Did you collect the Morgan Hill and Gaudalupe jaspers yourself?
Ed
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Post by joe on Nov 9, 2005 20:34:55 GMT -5
Wow. I never imagined so many kinds of jasper before I found this board. It's awesome! Mel, do you have a ballpark estimate of how many types of jasper you are aware of? How many types are in your collection??
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Post by rockds on Nov 9, 2005 23:18:26 GMT -5
me likes
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 10, 2005 0:13:25 GMT -5
Stoner: Got the Morgan Hill and Guadalupe material in a recent trade. Had some big blocks of llanoite, rhodonite, orbicular rhyolite and Coquina stone that I gave a spheremaker friend in trade. He'll cut out the blocks for the spheres and return the scraps for me to cab.
Joe: *S* I've been assembling a book on jasper and agate of the world for my own use. I'm into my fifth volume and have barely scratched the surface. Heck, I discover several new deposits of jaspers every year myself. I'm beginning to believe the variations are pretty much endless but then, that's the fun of collecting. I've probably got forty or fifty variations just of poppy jasper and I have no idea how many agates and jaspers I have total. I suppose my wife would say "Way too damn many! " *LOL* Heck, just through trades I've made with buddies at this site I've probalby picked up examples of more than a dozen new materials for my collection. It sure is a fun hobby, that's for sure....mel
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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 10, 2005 1:49:35 GMT -5
mel i'd really hate to have to pick a favorite out of those. great group of slabs!
kim
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Nov 10, 2005 9:38:48 GMT -5
The "eyes" have it- THat stuff is wonderful! More eye candy!
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Post by creativeminded on Nov 10, 2005 13:03:52 GMT -5
Those are georgous, I am adventually going to have to get me some othe that.
Tami
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Post by joe on Nov 10, 2005 22:14:13 GMT -5
Mel, the wife is wrong!  You can't have too many. You can only have almost enough! Does this same variety apply to agate also? Or is agate like a "special case" of colorless jasper? Sorry for dumb questions but I'm really not sure of the agate/jasper relationship. |
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 11, 2005 0:35:04 GMT -5
Joe: No such thing as a stupid question. Questions are how we learn. Heck, stupid people don't ever ask questions. They have no curiousity! *L*Agate also occurs in an almost endless variety of colors and patterns. Check out www.agateswithinclusions.com for just a sample of one group of agates, those with plumes and sagenite. Most rock hobbiests consider a microcrystaline quartz material to be agate if it's translucent and jasper if it's not but there are so many intergrades that many are jasper-agate etc. And then there's chert and flint too which can be translucent or not and are usually said to be of marine metasedimentary origin. Best thing to keep in mind is that they're all often beautiful and fun as heck to collect. Been collecting quartz gems for like 45 years and haven't gotten bored yet. I never cease to be amazed at the interesting and unusual types that show up and the internet has made it easy for us to share pics of our finds with our friends which is doubly kewl!!!...Mel |
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Post by joe on Nov 11, 2005 7:10:32 GMT -5
Wow. Thanx for the knowledge. It does seem like the naming is kinda arbitrary. I suppose that's good as you can name your own finds! Without a central database no one can check in to see if what they found matches any previous finds. So we hear a new name. I guess that's why you're writing a 5 volume book! Ok, I agree with your assessment that the stones that "catch your eye" are the best. Thanx so much for the link. It is very informative and has great pics! Joe |
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Nov 13, 2005 0:19:34 GMT -5
Those are some stunning slab pics you've posted over the past few days. The ones in this thread are my favourite, but I've gotta say they are all fantastic.
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You can't have too many. You can only have almost enough! 
