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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 26, 2018 10:25:12 GMT -5
Yep Mark, I hunted New Mexico too and that was disappointing many years ago. Thought the agate was kind of blah too. of course, after Deming Big Diggins and Baker Rch in the old days, most New Mexico sites were blah. I wished I could just build a house and live at Baker Rch..Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 26, 2018 10:20:48 GMT -5
pic#2 left side is a Teepee Canyon Agate. The Sowbelly is from Creede, Colorado. The Royal Purple is Royal Purple Aztec Lace. There is a Royal Purple Lace too ( no Aztec) but rarer and different stuff. Next to last seems to say Ochoco Agate, Prineville, Ore. Last one looks like Chihuahua, Mexxico stuff to me, Maybe a Parcellas or a Casas Grande but it could be from elsewhere too.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 25, 2018 21:51:14 GMT -5
Yep, Luna Agate from Mexico as opposed to Luna Agate from Luna, New Mexico. Confusing common names, no? The NM stuff tends too just be plain ole blue to gray to white banded and fortification type nodules....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 25, 2018 17:19:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd say Stony Creek too, rather than classic material from the Stone Canyon pit. That being said though, Big Sandy Creek, Parkfield on the Varian Rch (V6), Creston, and the Ventura beaches all show a ton of variety in their breccias including types much like Stony Creek material....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 25, 2018 10:34:07 GMT -5
Beautiful! Love the colors especially. We are in the lower cretaceous here but all or stuff is just white or gray....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 23, 2018 14:31:08 GMT -5
If it's the Big Sandy I hunted, it's in Indian Valley east of San Miguel, CA near Ft. Hunter Leggett.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 23, 2018 10:05:07 GMT -5
Wow, nice! I used to hunt Big Sandy regularly as a buddy of mine and I had access to a private ranch there. Did not know there was any pubic access but it is a fine place to hunt. Lots of weird poppy jasper types there too in addition to the breccias. Back in my Commiefornia yard I had about a 90 pound boulder of tightly packed poppies that was banded in red, yellow and green but I left it behind cause I had no saw big enough to cut it and the poppy structures were too tightly packed and poorly defined to be real interesting except under a hand lens ...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 22, 2018 21:43:31 GMT -5
Yep, Calico lace but there are two, a South African lookalike and the Mexican material. Both called Calico Lace far as I know...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 19, 2018 21:57:15 GMT -5
Wowser! All great but that round bone rules! Man that is a nice one. Great looking poop too and even I ain't old enough to remember those kind of prices on Morrisonite. Wow!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 18, 2018 18:37:20 GMT -5
Yeah, we got on the wrong side of a mountain out there one time and had to semi walk the trail bikes over the top. The top was littered with huge uncracked eggs. Took a couple big ones home to cut. Very much a let down. Three inches of matrix with about a one inch center of brownish chalcedony in one and plain white opal in the other. Next trip redirected our efforts to over near the Irwin boundary toward Lead Pipe Springs. Got some nice eggs there, some with amethyst and most with purple botryoidal centers. As I recall, the digging was really difficult and the eggs few though....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 18, 2018 10:10:31 GMT -5
Pretty neat finds. Is that the Opal Mountain near Black Mountain in Commiefornia? Years ago we used to ride all over there in our trail bikes and man were there some huge t-eggs. Lot of matrix and small centers though. We found lots of opal but unfortunately none with good fire. Worth going in there just for the petroglyphs though. Some of those canyons were loaded with them.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 15, 2018 20:10:09 GMT -5
That is very cool! The spheres in peanut obsidian are actually crystal structures similar to those in snowflake obsidian but maybe with a different mineral composition. Think maybe the example you have is generically peanut but just a varient with slightly better developed crystals? I've see snowflake obsidian with fancier snowflakes and also poppy jasper types with those more ragged edged poppies rather than smooth orbs too.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 14, 2018 15:41:42 GMT -5
#2 looks to be wonderstone type rhyolite, #3 moss agate, #4 disaster peak or arroyo picture rock....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 13, 2018 9:38:03 GMT -5
I'd say tube agate and not fossil but Burro Creek does have a lot of odd types of material. Just foesn't look quite right for palm or any other type fossil to me. Cool specimen!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 12, 2018 10:16:37 GMT -5
Yeah, Hugh Leiper mentions and shows pics of that plume variety in his "Agates of North America" book from 1966. He lists Marfa as the location also. he says the variety is rare and weathers from the Mitchell Rhyolite Formation east and south of Marfa. Though I sure didn't find any when I hunted there *L*....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 11, 2018 15:50:08 GMT -5
Yep, a lot of that Indonesian material is heat treated. Treating seems to be kind of a crap shoot too as the natural tans, whites and golds come out in a lot of different colors after heating. I have a slab that shows some of those nice purplish tones but has other colors in different areas...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 11, 2018 13:40:57 GMT -5
Wild looking poppies in those and that red is intense!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 11, 2018 13:39:20 GMT -5
Beautiful creations. Easy to see why you like that material....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 8, 2018 22:51:51 GMT -5
Yep the Franciscan jasper from California's coast ranges has really been subjected to a lot of seismic activity. Parkfield, CA, the locale for lots of beautiful jasper ala Stone Canyon, Hog Canyon, and Varian Ranch Jasper is known as the earthquake capitol of California. Beautiful breccias but often heavily fractured. And of course, we all know the technique for Morgan Hill is to drop the slabs on soft ground and cab the broken solid sections. Well worth the trouble though as those Franciscan gems are some really nice jasper types.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 8, 2018 22:39:55 GMT -5
Wow so nice! That's an agate we don't see much here in the west....Mel
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