itsandbits
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 27, 2012 20:51:46 GMT -5
really like your way of working Jack Lloyd
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 27, 2012 10:12:13 GMT -5
does it, turn your water red? If it does you might have a hematite, those should make up nice cabs!
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 27, 2012 10:00:22 GMT -5
i like them that size; no decisions to make, just put it to the wheel and start forming what comes out
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 26, 2012 19:25:47 GMT -5
that looks like an impressionists veiw of the ocean pounding the rocky islands shores all right. that will be a nice display.
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 26, 2012 9:48:09 GMT -5
I guess I'd better get ready! Thanks
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 24, 2012 14:09:15 GMT -5
they all have to be my favs because I can't decide
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 22, 2012 23:34:00 GMT -5
would you be cleaning the sea crud off them or prepping for paint? A new coat of grey/or gris, as the eastern half of our country says. That would have to be a lot like holding on to a fire hose. Surprised your not sleeping after dinner; turkey puts me right to sleep:<)
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 22, 2012 23:02:16 GMT -5
Yeah; I used to have a 1000 gallon 22 hp soda blasting unit on a trailer that I cleaned grafitti off buildings and prepped for painters with. Definately have to keep the material tank dry. I was talking about your skin :<))
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 22, 2012 16:56:40 GMT -5
oh you wus; the skin is good at keeping the soft stuff inside and it doen't melt in the rain
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 22, 2012 11:00:41 GMT -5
can't say but it does look as though it's been treated with a stabalizer. Hard to tell from a picture though
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 22, 2012 9:37:37 GMT -5
The top two Are the "BC Blue" chalcedony, which so far I haven't found in a pure colour yet. I've only cut a hundred pounds of rock from this site yet. and only 10-15 of the chalcedony. The center peice seems to be a chalcedony, quartz, opal, with hematite? healing the fractures. The last peice is a hematite with inclusions of tiny sparkly metallic sparkles that give it an allmost schiller effect. I was at the site yesterday and found some that is shot through with pinkish flourettes too, along with the red, that looks even more interesting. It is a harder hematite also and gives a decent polish. The peice is quite thin at the bezel edge; about a 1/16th " and has sharp clean edges so probably is silified too.
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 22, 2012 9:23:47 GMT -5
yeah, a definate no for them too. The disdero are pretty intimate to the matrix and you'll rarely if ever find clean ones like this. On the whole the colours are "wrong" and if you had that much blue you'd be sure to have a lot of other colours. The nodules are too rounded like gas pocket nodules and clean; unfractured, also .
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 22, 2012 0:35:28 GMT -5
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 21, 2012 9:47:24 GMT -5
kids can be all most un "bear" able some times, then along comes something like this :<))
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 21, 2012 1:10:34 GMT -5
there is no such thing as bizarre in the rock world is there? nice find
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 20, 2012 11:11:30 GMT -5
I've been having a lot of trouble withe term chert and used to use it as a general term with the others falling under it and it looks like the wiki reference supports this so here it is. As to what form of chert I don't know what the BC Blue is but it is probably chalcedony en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chert
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 20, 2012 1:31:18 GMT -5
with material like that you don't have to go anywhere else!!
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 20, 2012 1:29:11 GMT -5
glad you're back in operation!!!
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 20, 2012 0:58:06 GMT -5
thanks Cathy; I really like the softness of it too, I think it is caused by the background green base. I'm pretty sure it is a metamorphically altered chert. It is has very little if any grainyness if any but I'm not sure what to call it. There is such a variety of colours and it is all translucent to some degree, even the black
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Post by itsandbits on Nov 20, 2012 0:49:54 GMT -5
Welcome Seabrz and "way to go" guys
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