realrockhound
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Post by realrockhound on Jun 1, 2022 13:39:15 GMT -5
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Post by jasoninsd on Jun 1, 2022 18:57:15 GMT -5
I'm still saying it's Coyamito...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2022 20:42:15 GMT -5
That’s sooo pretty!
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realrockhound
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Post by realrockhound on Jun 1, 2022 21:05:10 GMT -5
I'm still saying it's Coyamito... Im going to be honest. Banded agates are not my expertise. I have no clue what it is. What characteristics make you think it’s coyamito?
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Post by jasoninsd on Jun 1, 2022 21:31:36 GMT -5
I'm still saying it's Coyamito... Im going to be honest. Banded agates are not my expertise. I have no clue what it is. What characteristics make you think it’s coyamito? I've seen those muted "OD Green" colors in the banding in several Coyamito specimens...
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jun 1, 2022 22:24:10 GMT -5
This is one that looks very close to yours on Pinterest:
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Post by MsAli on Jun 2, 2022 12:30:22 GMT -5
I was gonna say Coyamito as well. They tend to have yellow where Laguna does not. The banding is also finer on a laguna. Although my understanding is they are both found not far from each other. And to throw a twist It also may be a Moctezuma Agate
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Post by MsAli on Jun 2, 2022 12:36:08 GMT -5
geoinfo.nmt.edu › 201...PDF The agates and geodes of northern Chihuahua and southern New Mexico This is a wealth of info
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Post by parfive on Jun 2, 2022 13:34:23 GMT -5
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Post by oregon on Jun 2, 2022 13:39:52 GMT -5
geoinfo.nmt.edu › 201...PDF The agates and geodes of northern Chihuahua and southern New Mexico This is a wealth of info and while I'm here, not to hijack, but does this look like any of the Chihuahua agates? or anyone recognize it? I'm calling it Mandelbrot
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Post by parfive on Jun 2, 2022 13:46:25 GMT -5
oregon Looks like flowering tube onyx. www.rockngem.com/what-to-cut-flowering-tube-onyx/ The family that found this material in central Utah called it Flowering Tube Onyx and usually just called it Tube Onyx. Tube onyx is beautiful worked into cabs. It is tricky to work, because heat buildup while grinding it causes it to separate along the distinctive banding. You can stabilize the material to get past this issue, or you can try backing it with a thin slab of a more stable rock, such as petrified wood or bassanite, or epoxy.
These slabs have been stabilized with butvar, a museum grade consolidant. This will help to hold together the rock along fracture weaknesses. This technique is described in my article on stabilization or my youtube video.
heathercanyon.com/product-category/lapidary-slabs/flowering-tube-onyx/
More on that butvar, polyvinyl acetate: heathercanyon.com/stabilizing-soft-or-fragile-stones/
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Post by rmf on Jun 2, 2022 20:53:05 GMT -5
Based on the size, I would say Agua Nueva Agate but I can also see Coyamito Agate. oregon parfive is correct flowering tube onyx for yours
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