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Post by nowyo on Aug 17, 2015 8:14:47 GMT -5
Nice looking agate there. That will look really nice on a shelf.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 17, 2015 8:12:31 GMT -5
Cool stuff!
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 15, 2015 21:42:07 GMT -5
Well, I went out again on Wednesday. I've spent quite a lot of time over the past couple of years reading, looking at maps, driving lots of miles, and doing a lot of walking. And looking. Made sense to me that there had to be some stuff out there. I've looked at several spots within 20 miles or so of this one-kind of circling around, I guess, and closing in. Checked three spots on Wednesday. The first two had some cool stuff but the third was better. May have found something cool. Really too far from home for a day trip, Just too much driving time. The spot is only half a mile or so to the road, but the rock carrying is all uphill. Rocks that are still there (I call it "storing them in situ"). At this point my collecting bag was full and I was getting short on daylight.
A few that I did bring home that day, With any kind of luck I'll be able to get back there before the snow flies. If not, I reckon they'll still be there come spring. Looking forward to running a saw blade through some of them. Thanks for looking. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 15, 2015 21:09:58 GMT -5
Tuesday evening I was mowing the front yard when I noticed quite a crowd of birds was swooping around. Looking a little closer, there was a winged ant hatch going on. The air was full of bugs and there must have been at least 50 or 60 nighthawks eating them. Some barn swallows showed up to help towards the end. To give an idea of where it is-in the first picture looking southwest the hill to the left of the tree is Rattlesnake Mountain. Cody is just to the east of that. The second picture is looking pretty much due east and the hills in the background are the Bighorn Mountains. Air is a little hazy from smoke from all the fires west of us. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 15, 2015 20:21:57 GMT -5
Really nice job on those. What is the matrix in your puddingstone. I'm sure I've read it before but don't remember.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 10, 2015 21:36:02 GMT -5
glad your posting your tumbles again. I like both of these. Is the one on the right a Montana agate? Chuck Good question. Probably the same origin, what we find is generally small and not the really pretty 'Montanas". I really need to get some of this stuff dug out and some pictures posted up here. These rocks were all found in Wyoming, within a couple of hours of Montana. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 9, 2015 21:53:43 GMT -5
When you're disappointed that an agate is not a pudding stone, it's time to seek help. True that. For a first agate that's a darn cute little bugger. Congrats. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 9, 2015 21:51:08 GMT -5
Nice job on that, Rob.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 9, 2015 21:43:09 GMT -5
Those are all great!
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 9, 2015 21:39:38 GMT -5
And thanks everybody. We do have some decent rocks to mess with around here. I actually like taking pictures and all, it's just that I usually run out of day before I run out of stuff to do. You know how that goes.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 9, 2015 21:37:35 GMT -5
Have you been on or around sheep mountain? The purplish with white spots in the third from the last photo is an exact copy of some rocks I got from there. Way cool stone if you can find it without a bunch of fractures. Nice batch all around. Jim We've been over there but it's been a few years. Keep meaning to get over there again but just haven't made it, there is a lot of cool stuff over there. Most of the stones in that batch came from that place we went to last summer a few times, I know the little purple rock did. I need to get back over there, too. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 8, 2015 19:48:20 GMT -5
Surprises in the mail are always fun, eh?
I really like that style of wrap.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 8, 2015 19:38:01 GMT -5
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Post by nowyo on Aug 6, 2015 18:32:34 GMT -5
Oh heck, those are something. I may need to get a box of those. Thanks for posting this.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 6, 2015 18:28:29 GMT -5
Can't really help with the oil thing, I'm just running mineral oil in my 18". He had it in the driveway? That's always a plus. When I found the 18" it was in a basement-had to disassemble it and bring it up the stairs. Congrats on the score!
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 6, 2015 12:12:46 GMT -5
Wow, those are cool. Neat job.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 5, 2015 21:11:04 GMT -5
Yeah, good point, Rob. Most stuff didn't travel all that far, though. There is banded iron formation to the north in Ontario but that's a long way for the ice to have carried the rock. Kind of depends a lot on where it was actually found, "upper state NY" means different things. To me it would mean between Albany and NYC, west into the Catskills. Gawd, how I hate that area.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 5, 2015 20:53:24 GMT -5
Dang, we missed that one. Next time we're heading down 15 we'll make sure to stop in there.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 5, 2015 20:23:26 GMT -5
Upper state New York covers a lot of territory. Could that be narrowed down any? If I remember right Smith was from the central part of the state, that's soft rock country. More apt to find trilobites and horn corals than hematite/jasper. There are some old iron mines in the Adirondacks, they used to mine ilmenite up at Tahawus, and I've read about some weird metamorphic stuff North of NYC. Other stuff as well, but I'm guessing that rock isn't from New York.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 5, 2015 20:12:56 GMT -5
Very cool, Jim. haven't seen any like that, but it's amazing the variety in the wood around here, and the different levels of preservation. Great specimans.
Russ
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