stefan
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Post by stefan on Jun 20, 2022 18:09:20 GMT -5
Carnelian agate. My first time getting rough from Kingsley North. Gotta say I'm very pleased. Rock is clean and in wonderful condition. Very few fractures, and most pieces are well shaped. And man is this stuff CLEAN. There was ZERO dust remaining in the bag when I dumped it out. I am very excited about this batch. I only got 5 Lbs, but wish I had ordered a lot more.
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ThomasT
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Post by ThomasT on Jun 20, 2022 18:37:12 GMT -5
Looks like some quality smaller pieces of some nice waxy Carnelian to me.
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quartzilla
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Post by quartzilla on Jun 20, 2022 21:10:15 GMT -5
Ohhh your twisting my arm with that pic! Can’t wait to see how these come out!
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Post by jasoninsd on Jun 20, 2022 22:31:27 GMT -5
That's really cool that they were "clean" from them! Those look like they're going to be amazing once polished!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2022 22:58:56 GMT -5
Looking forward to seeing it ran through!
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jimmie
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Post by jimmie on Jun 21, 2022 4:14:38 GMT -5
Done some carnelian, very satisfying end results.
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markb
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Post by markb on Jun 21, 2022 17:44:35 GMT -5
Sweet! Gotta love carnelians.
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Post by Bob on Jul 5, 2022 21:56:57 GMT -5
I did a lot of that a few years ago. Boy is it tough and hard. Most took full year. Got some from 3 different countries with different tones of red/orange. Love the results though. Have a friend in Oregon who collects a lot after forest fires.
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dshanpnw
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Post by dshanpnw on Jul 6, 2022 16:10:02 GMT -5
Great colors and sizes. Those should be beautiful when they're done.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Jul 6, 2022 16:39:30 GMT -5
THankfully I took a starting picture and plan on photoing these every step of the way. First recharge happens this weekend!
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nursetumbler
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Post by nursetumbler on Jul 7, 2022 2:57:00 GMT -5
I did a lot of that a few years ago. Boy is it tough and hard. Most took full year. Got some from 3 different countries with different tones of red/orange. Love the results though. Have a friend in Oregon who collects a lot after forest fires. BobPlease excuse my ignorance but you get carnelian from forest fired rock?
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Jul 7, 2022 6:16:08 GMT -5
After a fire the rock is better exposed as the soil no longer holds the rock well (think rain washed soils, mud slides, etc) Dan Hurd (on YouTube) has a great video explaining the process. He finds alot of Agate in the washes that fill up with float material after a forest fireand subsequent rains.
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Post by Bob on Jul 7, 2022 11:08:15 GMT -5
Please excuse my ignorance but you get carnelian from forest fired rock? The other person answered the question why forest fires have anything to do with finding rocks. That may have been what you were asking but you may have been asking literally what you wrote. I doubt the answer is yes. If you take chalcedony, go down into the subgroup that has a fibrous internal structure, then within that into the group that has no bands, you are more of less left with what might be called a bunch of non-categorized chalcedonies that range from fire "agates" to moss "agates" and many odds and ends with their own names. When studying this leftover group a few years ago, I found it useful to divide it by colors. For example, chrysoprase is a green chalcedony. There are several purple ones, and so forth. Brown chalcedony is often called sard. There are many others in various colors. Well, carnelian ends up being what red/amber/orange chalcedony is called. And the colors are usually due to impurities that give color what to otherwise would be pure quartz, at least that's what the literature says. To add further confusion, in examining carnelian I tumbled under a strong backlight, I found that maybe 10% of the pieces have very faint bands, so those rocks would be most properly called carnelian agate. I've been told that carnelian is common in some forest lands in Washington and Oregon, just laying on or just below the land surface, and hard to find except after forest fires have exposed it.
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