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Post by nowyo on May 9, 2017 19:56:20 GMT -5
I really like that bowl. Nice job, Rob.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on May 9, 2017 19:48:26 GMT -5
Great pics, thanks. Looks like a great time.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 29, 2017 7:37:07 GMT -5
Cool looking rock, bet it would make nice cabs. Of course, copper is at 2.58 right now and that's some really nice ore. Russ Worth 10x that as a slab! You're right, of course. My mind has just been running a couple of different directions on this stuff lately. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 28, 2017 17:24:05 GMT -5
Wow, that's a whole bunch of pretty.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 28, 2017 17:21:11 GMT -5
Wow, really nice.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 27, 2017 22:14:01 GMT -5
Oh hell. Saved that one. Thanks, Andy.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 27, 2017 22:12:01 GMT -5
Oh, and be aware of the reservation boundaries. Not that I blame them, but the Iroquois can still get a little feisty.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 27, 2017 21:43:25 GMT -5
Cool looking rock, bet it would make nice cabs. Of course, copper is at 2.58 right now and that's some really nice ore.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 27, 2017 21:34:31 GMT -5
theres rocks worth picking up in ny? Are "diamonds" worth picking up? No. A friend of mine has gone after the "diamonds" several times. According to him you go beat on dolostone until your tired out, sweaty, and bloody knuckled-then go to the gift shop and buy a few. He has actually found a few decent small ones. A woman I knew who has now passed away had in her collection a Herkimer diamond the size of your fist. That said, there is some interesting geology and interesting rocks in that part of the world, just don't get your hopes up for a lot of lapidary stuff. Do a google search on Onondaga Limestone and Trenton Group. That will get you started. Biggest problem you'll run into is that virtually all the land is privately owned and the green crap that grows everywhere covering up the rocks. A few pics from field trips. This was taken near Canastota. Lots of fossil hash there. Some decent stuff. Really, at that point we were looking at the geology rather than collecting. This photo was taken at Trenton Falls. Google it for a bunch of information. This was taken farther east, but threw it in for fun. That's my buddy Psycho Ken climbing on pillow lavas near Schuylerville, NY. I know I have more pictures from some of these trips and I'm sure they'll show up someday if they haven't vanished in one of my manic multi-state moves. These pics are all from "91-"92. Now, I'm not going to stick up for NY in any way but there really is some neat geology going on there with the Taconic Island Arc, Opening of the Atlantic (which you'll find more evidence of in Vermont) and all that. I think I still have some info on the area-I'll look to see what I've got. As far as "a" trilobite site I'm not really aware of any. If I were flying blind around there I'd drive secondary roads and stop at roadcuts in the aforementioned formations. Lots of brachiopods, crinoids, bryozoans, rugose corals, graptolites; and trilobites are fairly common. Most of what you'll see there is limestone and shale. Some of the black shales have some really neat stuff. Anyway, sorry you have to go to NY, enjoy yourself the best you can. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 25, 2017 20:22:51 GMT -5
Another google searcher. Inherited a couple of tumblers full of half-finished obsidian and after they had sat around for a couple of years went looking for info on what to do with the stuff. Found it here. The obsidian turned out great, by the way. Posted pictures of it several years ago.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 25, 2017 20:02:44 GMT -5
Trying to straighten up the shop, sort things out and decide what is worth loading up to move. Had a couple of buckets in the corner full of rocks that I thought might not be too bad but hadn't really looked at yet. Took a few end cuts today just too look inside them. All just local finds from the past year or two. Thought I'd post pictures of some. Cut a few others that were pretty bland and now reside in the landscaping. Reckon I'll hang on to these. Thanks for looking. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 25, 2017 19:49:09 GMT -5
Very neat stuff, thanks for the info on it. Great job on the cab.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 25, 2017 19:28:48 GMT -5
Wow, great stuff.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 25, 2017 19:26:01 GMT -5
Cool find.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 25, 2017 19:09:27 GMT -5
Looks like you all had a fun day. Looks a little damper than where we generally go. Thanks for sharing.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 21, 2017 23:18:36 GMT -5
A lot of interesting geology in that area, but not a lot of lapidary materials. I never did the Herkimer diamonds thing, by the time you're that far west you're in trilobite country. There are some fossils in marble near Manchester, and some mineral deposits around Mt. Equinox. Over in the Adirondacks it can be spotty but there are some pegmatites with cool stuff although most are kind of bland.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 21, 2017 23:03:55 GMT -5
Thanks for posting, vegasjames. That's helpful and I'll look into the lecithin. Whole thing struck me out of the blue, I had a physical with bloodwork a couple of weeks prior to the episode. No high blood pressure, no high cholesterol, everything looked good. 57 years old. I guess 40 years of beer and cigarettes caught up with me. Oh, and I had already quit smoking. Don't want to make this about me, if it helps Mark or others it'll be good. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 21, 2017 21:39:43 GMT -5
Always enjoy these posts, 1dave. Drove through Eureka last summer, no time to stop. Added it then to my list of places to go poke around sometime. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 21, 2017 14:20:23 GMT -5
Wow. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. See what the cardiologist says, had the echo yet? Found out why I was feeling tired and lazy when I had a heart attack Dec. 14, 2014. Of course, didn't realize I 'd had a heart attack at the time. My GP figured it out a week or so later-he was great-went to cardiologist-he was okay, not great. Heart was in the 20% range. They tried to do stents but the one the call the widow maker (can't remember the correct name and not going to look it up) was 98% blocked-another was 90% blocked. I was actually fading kind of quickly, they hit me with all kinds of meds, got feeling better. Double bypass surgery Feb. 4th.
Never really felt fear, I was just pissed because I had a lot of things I wanted to do yet, and if I croaked my poor wife would have to clean up the mess I left behind. Surgery seemed to work, after that it's diet, exercise, some lifestyle adjustments.
Hopefully you won't need all that. Get second opinions from doctors you trust. They will push the urgency thing, in my case there really was some urgency. The cardiologist also wanted to put in a defibrillator but I felt that was mostly because I had decent insurance that would pay for it.
Take care of it and good luck
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 8, 2017 22:19:41 GMT -5
Heck, MrMike, they look as good as most of mine. Mostly tumble self collected rocks so a lot are fractured from freeze/thaw. Some of them with pits will ground down to mud before all the pits are gone. After about so long in coarse if they're still pitted they go out to the gravel driveway. Nicce selection of colors in there. Russ
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