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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 30, 2018 7:39:21 GMT -5
Holy smokes, snow already, that ugly white stuff. I'd be outta there in a shot. I hate the cold. That is a nice agate though....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 30, 2018 7:35:55 GMT -5
Dons list is great. Brazilians work up real fine. I'd add Prairie agate, petrified coral, and t-egg centers too but many local agates and jaspers take an awesome polish with ease too....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 23, 2018 7:41:56 GMT -5
Yup, my first thought was Medicine Bow Plume too.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 23, 2018 7:38:10 GMT -5
Man, that is a beautiful piece! Easy to see why it sold so quickly...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 28, 2018 11:33:31 GMT -5
"The Agates of Northern Mexico" by Brad Cross 1996. Great Book. Got a signed edition in my library and it's one of my favorite agate books.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 28, 2018 11:28:21 GMT -5
Wow, very cool treatment of that seam agate cab. Great shape to display the pattern!.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 26, 2018 13:45:26 GMT -5
The crazy lace veins come in a limestone formation matrix that has dogtooth aragonite/calcite crystals. The botryoidal formations in the agate are pseudomorphs ( layered agate replacements) after the aragonite crystals and therefore form those geometric shaped bands you see upper center in your pic. One of the crazy lace types listed in Cross's Agates of Northern Mexico books is actually named " Dogtooth Lace Agate" after the pseudomorphs after dogtooth calcite/aragonite.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 17, 2018 17:59:55 GMT -5
The "Turritella" beds around Wamsutter, WY are loaded. Not really the salt water snail Turritella though, actually a brackish water snail called Goniobasis. John sent me some from his trip and they tumbled real nice....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 17, 2018 17:44:09 GMT -5
Yowser! That's a good'un all right. Great pattern!.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 14, 2018 17:16:53 GMT -5
Never heard of gold in pet wood but marcasite is occasionally present and if it has enough silica it won't even rust.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 14, 2018 17:00:39 GMT -5
Wow, that's a heck of a fine job on a challenging slab. Beautiful!!!!.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 8, 2018 8:46:31 GMT -5
I'd say Stinking water too. I have an example of the white northern Nevada plume in my collection and the plumes are not as fluffy in mine, but it is only one example too.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 8, 2018 8:41:46 GMT -5
My P.O.S 10" Covington saw is the reason I'm getting out of the lapidary hobby. Constantly repairing the damn thing and having to sit by it and listen for it's latest F' up was just causing me stress and spoiling my days. More fun not to cut rocks!. Got other hobbies that are actually fun and now I have so much more time. Lapidary is neat but it is a time consuming hobby. Cutting and grinding rocks is a sloooooooooow process..Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 21, 2018 22:36:51 GMT -5
The red plumy parts make it look like Woodward to me....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 18, 2018 22:31:08 GMT -5
Awesome snake. I've seen a rock rattler before but never that color variety. In my travels, I've never stumbled across many of those little reclusive types.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 18, 2018 22:26:20 GMT -5
First one is brecciated pastelite from Burro Creek, AZ. Second one I don't recognize but there are always one offs to be found all over the place. Just not enough of any one type for collectors to put a name to it. Type-wise it's in the moss/plume category.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 16, 2018 6:42:24 GMT -5
Soft definitely puts it into the limestone -dolomite category.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 16, 2018 6:40:33 GMT -5
Yep, I'd agree Woodward or one of the nearby ranches.Definitely from that west Texas region....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 10, 2018 17:16:05 GMT -5
Yup, In South Texas that is called pocket rot wood though I bought some one time the guy called dino bone wood.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 6, 2018 19:54:36 GMT -5
Sagebrush Jasper from Wyoming if it's hard. Also called South Pass Dendritic Jasper. Wyoming also has a dendritic opal and as mentioned above, similar dendritic limestone comes from Texas and Lake Valley,NM and probably lots of other locations too....Mel
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