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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 18, 2017 15:10:33 GMT -5
Yeah, the second one probably is rhyolite but could be a limestone material being partly converted to chert by added silica. The first one is something I've seen before. I'm thinking it's palm or fern that has pretty much been decomposed before it was infused with silica, sort of a limb cast. We found quite a lot of wood casts in the area. Many you'd never guess had been wood except for the exterior. Outside, like wood. Inside, all agate with plumy stuff, moss, tubes, little globules or orbs, even fortifications. Part of the fun of the hunt there is man, you never know what you will find. The frustrating part is, no one has done a book on wood identifications from down there and all those wild type woods are a booger to ID. Me being a real label guy, that just abut drives me nuts. Wish I was close to the Ginko Petrified Forest museum. They have the finest collection of identified and polished wood specimens I've ever seen. Would love to compare some of my Texas stuff to what they have on hand.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 17, 2017 23:41:51 GMT -5
Just looked at Google sat maps and man it looks like they've messed up a lot of the roads by resurfacing them. Probably still pretty good right after a heavy rain though. I would kill to get to walk a couple of those private oil field roads which are all gravel. We walked one just a little bit once where there was no sign of posting and man there was wood all over the place. One of my neighbors owns a ranch down there and says it has lots of wood but it's a hunting site and he does not seem to want rock hunters on it....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 17, 2017 23:20:02 GMT -5
Sorry, I don't recognize the other material...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 17, 2017 20:48:20 GMT -5
Question for you Jeremy. Last time we went down, we noticed the oil men are caliche covering a lot of the good roads rendering them not so good for collecting as the caliche even gets into the bar ditches covering the good gravel. I don't think we got quite over to the roads you checked out though. Were the roads in that area still the original old gravel and pet wood topped roads or are they getting covered up with the ugly white stuff over there too?.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 16, 2017 23:37:44 GMT -5
I've only ever seen a couple of pieces of the material and they all had the pale green. Don't know if there was variation or not in the material but none of that bright yellow in any I've had, so I supposed your pics could show two different materials....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 15, 2017 16:21:20 GMT -5
Man, ain't that an area to hunt in that is just too fun? Easy hunting too. Looks like you got you some nice palm or fern examples too...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 14, 2017 9:36:32 GMT -5
I love the smell of a good snipe in the morning. It smells like victory!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 13, 2017 17:56:43 GMT -5
*LOL* Nice catches and sniping increases the fun right?....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 13, 2017 17:12:58 GMT -5
Those coral tumbles are friggin awesome. If you put a tray of those out at a rockshow, they would sell like hotcakes. Matter of fact, I have some my wife brought me from her Florida trip around somewhere....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 13, 2017 8:53:29 GMT -5
Guess the Ojai Valley and the raptor center are out of the risk zone now. That's good. Fire burned real close to our old Ojai home and the Raptor Center was evacuated several times.. Dang that mention of Somis made my mouth start watering for Somis Market Mexican food. Used to have lunch there several times a week for like 25 years *L*. Even had my riding lessons at Somis on weekends so ate there then too. Never found food that good here in Texas yet, though we do have one place that is pretty close. Only things I miss about Commiefornia are the food, desert rock hunting, and the ocean and sailboats at the harbor.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 11, 2017 7:28:58 GMT -5
The polish Imperial Jasper takes is up there with the best of them. That stuff really shines up with ease. One of my top favorites for cabbing....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 10, 2017 19:16:06 GMT -5
Imperial jasper comes from near Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico. Dominant colors for the regular stuff are pink or green but also spiderweb cream, gray, whitish etc occur. Royal Imperial, the nodular form, comes in mainly pink or even Bruneau Jasper type colors but can also occur in a rare blue green color. Very cool stuff....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 10, 2017 11:49:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I've always figured 50 cents and up per square inch. Used to be 25 cents even in the old days. Cutting a six inch Las Choyas takes a bit of saw time as it has to be well shimmed and properly oriented to cut good halves. Solids can really take awhile. Almost lie hacking your way through a big Brazilian. Never could figure how you could find tables full of big 6"+ Brazilian slabs at Quartzite for a few buck each. I could never cut them for anywhere near that price.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 9, 2017 23:20:24 GMT -5
I'm thinking the jasper is a lower grade ocean jasper that just does not have many orbs. Technically yellow to brown chalcedony is sard but just yellow agate works for me. Lot of the Nipomo and Stone Canyon material has the yellow agate filling....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 9, 2017 17:42:27 GMT -5
Hopefully you didn't knock boots with them before ya forgot their names. *L* Wimmens tend to hate that sort of thing. Drunk picking up wimmens is pretty much like drunk dialing. Don't do it *L*.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 8, 2017 9:35:01 GMT -5
I like that pink breccia. That yellow looks exactly like the stuff we used to get at my buddies old ranch at Creston, CA....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 8, 2017 9:32:33 GMT -5
Got a buddy who collects granite here in Texas as we have many beautiful types. Llanoite is especially popular. Never cabbed granite myself though as I'm an agate and jasper guy....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 7, 2017 20:24:26 GMT -5
Ugh! Ugly white stuff and slippery ground! How long till springtime?...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 4, 2017 22:20:20 GMT -5
Went with the wife by the nature center the other day. Guys house right across the street is plumb full of those ugly blow up plastic Santas, snowmen, raindeer, elves etc. Looked like some kiddies had taken a BB gun to them. Santa deflated and floppy as an old man's you know what, Rudolf on his knees with hangy down antlers, Frosty bent over backwards at the waste, elves prostrate next to melted looking candles. Holly jolly scene! Man I love the Christmas season *L*....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 4, 2017 9:29:46 GMT -5
Holy smokes, that's a monster pretty hunk of Mara Mamba. Someone had them a pocket full of money when they went Christmas shopping *L*....Mel
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