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Post by stardiamond on Dec 13, 2021 21:50:24 GMT -5
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 15, 2021 7:56:13 GMT -5
Wow that's the old stuff from the original pit. My digging buddy used to call that type the "Holy Grail" of Hornitos Jasper. We found very little of that type. Most of that was said to have been exported to Germany.
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Post by orrum on Dec 15, 2021 9:11:03 GMT -5
Merry Christmas to both of you.
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Post by MsAli on Dec 15, 2021 12:01:07 GMT -5
I think someone may have got that already and someone else got skunked on it 🤔
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Post by knave on Dec 15, 2021 12:07:19 GMT -5
Yes I see that someone jumped the fence jumper. Would have been fun to see what he would have done with it.
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Post by stardiamond on Dec 15, 2021 14:00:44 GMT -5
One of the first cabs I sold on Etsy.
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Dec 15, 2021 14:39:36 GMT -5
Most of that was said to have been exported to Germany. Well, I know where at least a little bit of it ended up...
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 15, 2021 15:33:21 GMT -5
Wow, that's pretty cool Tommy. I ran across one of the original miners at a show year and years ago and he said that fancy original stuff was packed in 50-gallon drums and shipped away, I believe he said in the 1960's. Another big find was a mile or so away and was made by Mr. Flora, my across the street neighbor in Hunters Valley. He found a single big lens of material of a different sort with less reds and more purples. When by buddy, another Tom's, dog discovered the original old Holy Grail pit from the 60s, we thought we were gonna clean up, but man was that pit cleaned out. Only stuff we found of that quality was a little bit just in back of the original pit. In our explorations, we found numerous small pits back in the brush but all the deposits were real small. When Robin Trumbull put the area under claim, he changed the area so much I can hardly recognize in on Google now but there is poppy over a huge area and I'm sure there is lots more to be dug. Heck there were a bunch of boulders on our old place full of nice poppy nodules if one liked hard rock mining.
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Dec 15, 2021 16:09:56 GMT -5
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Jahic
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Post by Jahic on Dec 15, 2021 16:18:18 GMT -5
I think I have some of this material. I’ll have to check my stash.
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Dec 15, 2021 16:22:30 GMT -5
I think I have some of this material. I’ll have to check my stash. I have a bunch of cabochon preforms that I trimmed up ... at $76 a slab I'm beginning to wonder if I can glue them back together with nobody noticing
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Post by MsAli on Dec 15, 2021 16:46:00 GMT -5
I have 2 slabs. 1 or sure I am keeping
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Post by rockjunquie on Dec 15, 2021 16:50:23 GMT -5
I have a couple stashed, too. My stash pile grows larger than my cut pile. LOL!
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Jahic
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Post by Jahic on Dec 15, 2021 18:09:00 GMT -5
I have a couple stashed, too. My stash pile grows larger than my cut pile. LOL! I am the embodiment of this statement.
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Post by rockhoundingwithkids on Dec 19, 2021 19:16:36 GMT -5
Interesting about the export to Germany... never heard that part.
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Post by rockhoundingwithkids on Dec 19, 2021 19:29:15 GMT -5
I have a couple stashed, too. My stash pile grows larger than my cut pile. LOL! I am the embodiment of this statement. 100% this... we have a bucket now that is the "return to the wild" bucket and Zack still walks by it and will grab a piece out "I think this will cut!"
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