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Post by vegasjames on May 17, 2024 19:16:53 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
Was going to head down to Lavic a few day ago, but looked at the weather and already getting very close to 100F.
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Post by vegasjames on May 17, 2024 15:41:09 GMT -5
Go with steel, not plastic. With all the weight, the rocks will grind through the plastic barrel rapidly.
I posted a tread on my using a steel cement mixer for tumbling not too long ago. I have a lot of really rough chalcedony I tumble this way in particular as it rapidly cleans the stones and removes all the sharp edges. The weight significantly increases the grinding rate.
Once they are too a certain point, I remove the rocks that have finished enough that I can decide whether they go in to the smaller tumbler, get slabbed, broken up, etc.
I also posted my other observations, including the sand and mud settles to the back eventually locking the smaller stones in place so they cannot tumble. Therefore, it is very important to routinely remove this sediment.
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Post by vegasjames on May 13, 2024 19:00:18 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on May 10, 2024 12:30:47 GMT -5
I get it, especially with an auction where you have to remember that the 11 dollar bid is really a 20 dollar bid, back when we bought a lot online I kept a list with max bids so I knew where to stop. Live auctions all do the "buyers premium" now, so between sales tax and the fee the price out the door is usually an extra 20% or more, and it seems that there is always someone bidding against you with bidders fever who forgot about the fees. About the only thing I get at the auctions is entertainment nowadays. It is not just people forgetting about fees. There are definite shillers on many Ebay auctions even though that is against the rules as well. I have had this happen to me as well. I get outbid, then the seller sends me a message claiming the winner, which was actually them, did not follow through, so I can have the item at my highest bid. They were just bidding on their own item to force the price up. They do not want to have to pay the Ebay fees for the auction since they did not make a real sale, so they then start contacting the highest bidders to get as much as they can for the item.
There are other variations of the shilling as well, but Ebay has made it much harder to prove the shilling by hiding the bidder IDs.
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Post by vegasjames on May 10, 2024 12:24:54 GMT -5
Do you mean the lid popped off from gas build up, or you wore a hole through the barrel?
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Post by vegasjames on May 9, 2024 15:33:34 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on May 9, 2024 4:57:37 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on May 8, 2024 2:11:06 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on May 8, 2024 2:01:03 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on May 4, 2024 22:05:09 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on May 4, 2024 14:42:44 GMT -5
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 28, 2024 14:38:36 GMT -5
Tommy vegasjames may know about prospects and risks. I personally wouldn't take a chance on squatters. Places I tend to go I never see people. I prefer to avoid them when out digging unless I know them.
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 28, 2024 14:31:45 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 27, 2024 23:44:16 GMT -5
Nice. Is that a plume esq type of inclusion or something different? Not plume, just white chalcedony inclusions and pockets of diatomaceous earth in the blue chalcedony.
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 27, 2024 20:25:07 GMT -5
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 27, 2024 20:22:11 GMT -5
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 27, 2024 20:18:17 GMT -5
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 27, 2024 20:16:35 GMT -5
Rhyolite front and back.
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 27, 2024 15:22:42 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada. Personally, I would not tumble turquoise. Turquoise can run from chalky to naturally hard (very rare), and can run from a penny a carat all the way up to $1,000 per carat. Price varies based on a number of factors, but hardness being a major one. Naturally hard turquoise, which could be tumbled, is too expensive to really tumble. The cheap stuff is too soft to tumble, unless maybe stabilized. I realize now that I shouldn't just dump any rocks into the tumbler and expect good results. When I first received the tumbler, I glanced through the manual and the whole process seemed pretty simple. 3 months later, I've discovered that I still have a lot to learn. There are many good youtubes to learn from though. I like Michigan Rocks and Lapidary Dave's stuff. My son is living in Henderson and doing construction work at McCarran airport. He's also interested in lapidary. Thanks for the info. Your son can join our club Southern Nevada Gem and Mineral Society, which would allow him to join on rock hounding trips and use the club lapidary equipment.
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 27, 2024 15:18:07 GMT -5
You must be out a lot! I like the pink in the 16th pic and the few before that. Is it pinker in person? I would say yes, that they are a bit more pink. The sunlight washes the pics out a bit. The pink chalcedonies vary a lot in intensity running from a faint pink to a darker pink, or pinkish purple.
There is a small mountain in Southern California that has a lot of pink chalcedony.
And for pinks, I find pink orthoclase, rhyolites and opal.
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