itsandbits
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 23, 2012 9:15:26 GMT -5
if you're giving out some of that candy I'll send you my address; sweet!
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 23, 2012 9:13:02 GMT -5
Thanks for all the suggestions and help, I've looked at pictures and read data for 2 months now but cannot just pin it down. It is a borderline material between serpentine and nephrite which is in that sliding scale as Mel says depending upon how much iron is present. There is some iron no doubt, iron pyrite crystal are included up to 3mm so far, So for identification we have; -the fracture is not concoidal but rough and splintery -SG is 2.9 -hardness is 6-7 -colours in each stone, apple green to yellow and mixed plus black mixed and healed fractures are pure jet black. -very tough stone -non magnetic even to a n42 neodymium magnet -fibrous looking "fuzzy threads" under high magnification -where even the quartzes and other more hard but brittle materials got turned to pea gravel by the glaciers, this is found in large boulders The colours in this Wyoming peice are the closest I've ever seen except for individual stones in this collection that have one of the colours each of all the colours my samples show in one. dirtyrockhounds.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=7487
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itsandbits
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 23, 2012 1:12:20 GMT -5
Hi from BC
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 22, 2012 22:17:46 GMT -5
yes, everything points at it; hardness, SG, fibrous look under high magnification, brittle break when you can get it to break, tough, and to my eye anyway; i'm kind of particular to it because I have it in hand, A quite distinctive stone. I'll get a photo host one day so I can put some better quality photos on because you cannot see the quality of the stone in my photos.
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 22, 2012 18:46:30 GMT -5
you should warn a guy when sunglasses or welding goggles are needed! Wow
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 22, 2012 18:43:51 GMT -5
what an amazing find, a coat of paint and it'll be just fine :<)
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 22, 2012 18:34:07 GMT -5
how fine grained is yours Carlos? can you see fibrous matts under high magnification like wool fibres? I'm guessing one of the stages between serpentine and something else, but Jim, there is a serpentine in new york that is 6mohs and omphacite and another of the jadeite clan has the same look except for the fibres so I keep bouncing back to serpentine, almost, maybe is, nephrite.
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 22, 2012 11:25:09 GMT -5
and here is some slabs "wet" off them Attachments:
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 22, 2012 11:23:57 GMT -5
here is some more of the material I am just calling serpentine as it fits best except for the hardness which is 6-7 speculation, questions, and identification are welcome Lloyd Attachments:
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 22, 2012 11:12:08 GMT -5
bump
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 21, 2012 20:09:42 GMT -5
No honey holes in Canada at all :<)
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 21, 2012 19:01:17 GMT -5
Ok, I have a question for you guys. Could you just (a) weigh the rock dry (get grams), (b) calculate it's volume by dropping it in a bucket and seeing how much the water rises (get mililiters), (c) divide? If you do it in grams and mililiters, you don't even have to divide by the SG of water becuase the SG of water is 1 gram/ml. All this weighing of the water thing seems more complicated to me rather than less. But maybe I'm missing something? You're still dunking in water, and then having to do calculations too When Jim started this I posted another version of the same thing that makes it real easy for the apartment /kitchen type setup; it's about 8-10 posts from the top of the first page. I us eit all the time and it takes seconds for each stone. The limiting factor is the digital scale I have only goes to 10kg but larger ones are readily available; this one costs 15$ and is very accurate.
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 19, 2012 22:48:16 GMT -5
thanks a lot! I was there with yuo all the way ;D and I loved it too.
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 18, 2012 16:01:03 GMT -5
nice samples and specimens; would you mind naming the ones you know if you get a chance for us neophytes
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 16, 2012 20:30:19 GMT -5
Great cabs Kris and I hope you saw the thankyou I left when mine got here. I am debating going with the shape of the nodule you sent me but there will be a lot of waste and I hate to do it so I think it is going to get slabbed Lloyd
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 16, 2012 13:15:22 GMT -5
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 16, 2012 13:01:39 GMT -5
I've tried registering for 4 months and I'm thinking it is personal :<) even went so far as to use my company web page as a backup for legitimacy; but they still just ignored me; wish there was some way to retract everything :<)))
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 16, 2012 12:58:18 GMT -5
welcome Alisha, that sure is a little beauty; it reminds me of ones from another area; wait a minute! it probably is!! :<)
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 16, 2012 12:15:49 GMT -5
amazing, never ran into this before myself but a new clear cutter is born; and I don't mean trees: it's called clear cutting when forestry cuts down all the timber in a particular section of property. Ugly but effective for profit.
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Post by itsandbits on Aug 15, 2012 18:33:11 GMT -5
same change with the host rock on the left but here it transitions to the snow cap Attachments:
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