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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 4, 2022 15:50:57 GMT -5
Yep, classic Hornitos on that last one. Those flow lines and distortion are common in Hornitos too.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 23, 2022 16:22:36 GMT -5
Ah , so many possibilities for roadside signs pointing to Jim's fee dig.
WANT TO SEE SOME GREAT WOOD? 400 FEET TO TURN, ASK JIM
TURN RIGHT JUST AHEAD. YOU'LL BE DIGGIN JIM'S WOOD.
JIM'S FEE DIG. HIS WOOD IS HARD AND GEM QUALITY. HAVE HIM SHOW YOU FOR A REASONABLE FEE.
*L* I know my wife says I have no filter.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 23, 2022 8:59:20 GMT -5
*LOL* Love the beaver part of the story! They can be quite loud and annoying. Was sitting to the prow of a boat gigging frogs one time on the San Joaquin delta and surprised one of the delta giant beavers (Golden Beaver) Dang thing slapped his tail and I almost fell out of the boat. Dead still out there and the dang huge critter (These guys reach 60-70 pounds) made a sound like a pistol shot.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 19, 2022 15:24:32 GMT -5
Nice! I like'em. Very good idea that I think would really appeal to a lot of folks at shows.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 19, 2022 15:20:04 GMT -5
Wow great trip report! The Fairburns are awesome but I gotta say I love prairie agates and you found some great ones. What a fun way to collect rocks!
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Post by Sabre52 on May 19, 2022 8:54:52 GMT -5
Looks like an agate with a little banding to me.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 19, 2022 8:52:57 GMT -5
Yep, just trying to explain how the law reads/works for a newbie. BLM rangers have been getting much more aggressive recently and fines can be quite steep. Got to admit though, that I personally have rarely seen a ranger unless I sought one out except for an encounter near Petrified Forest in AZ where the ranger actually told me where I should collect. And the only fine I know of personally, was one issued for illegal offroad camping on the Mojave Desert. I would think since Saddle Mtn is so well known though, that your chances of encountering a ranger would be much greater. Just trying to give you a heads up to help you avoid trouble. Take it however you like.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 17, 2022 18:22:22 GMT -5
Sorry, I was mainly looking at the line of huge hunks in your first picture which appears to be way over the day limit. Oh yeah, I should explain too, the day limit applies first. For your one-day hunt, to be legal, it would allow you only the 25 pounds plus one piece per person. The annual limit does not mean you can collect up to the 250 pound "annual" limit in one day unless the "one piece" is a big one about 225 pounds, I guess. Ie: on a five day collecting trip, you could collect a total of 100 pounds plus lets say, five big pieces with the grand total not to exceed 250 pounds. If you were to find a single piece over 250 pounds or want to collect over 250 pounds per year, a BLM permit is required. Collected material to be for personal use only and cannot legally be sold or bartered.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 17, 2022 16:19:38 GMT -5
Looks like barite to me. Is it heavy? Barite is pretty heavy and often forms as fan shaped clusters..
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Post by Sabre52 on May 16, 2022 16:32:29 GMT -5
Might be good to remember pard, that there is a 25# plus one piece per day, 250# per year, bag limit on petrified wood there. Saddle Mtn is BLM land I think.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 12, 2022 18:21:37 GMT -5
Wow James, that chert makes our old earth toned Pedernales chert look positively plain. Gorgeous material! I suspect that even though it looks a little sparkly on the exterior, your chert will polish very well. Re your other comment, please do not send me more rocks *L*. I'm still tripping over boxes in my barn and am trying to get rid of my remaining collection, not build it up. I'm sure your first-hand knowledge of your local materials way eclipses my own anyway. I agree much of the Rio Grande wood originates in volcanic ash areas further west or south of the river. George West wood I believe, is much younger than our localized calcite wood, which is lower Cretaceous, which again befuddles me as if it has had three- or four-times longer exposure to overlaying beds of marine fossils why has not it been replaced by silica to a larger degree. I suspect chemistry is involved, and the reason I did not go to vet school, aside from being poor, is I totally sucked at all forms of chemistry. *L*. Beats me.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 11, 2022 18:05:19 GMT -5
Interesting discussion. I've always been confused how in south Texas near George West, where again the silica must come from marine fossils with silica skeletons, the wood is both colorful and very hard and silica replaced. Yet, here locally, though we rarely find a hunk, of agatized wood, most the wood is replaced by calcite. Yet the same silica bearing fossil layers are present, but I guess not correctly overlaying the buried wood. I've actually been to a ranch where the whole hillside was petrified longs, all calcite replaced and soft. Very frustrating. Not a gemmy, colorful, hunk to be found.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 7, 2022 16:04:35 GMT -5
Thanks rockbrain. Got to say I had several run ins with poison oak while collecting out there too. MY buddy Tom and I got kind of lost while hiking out toward Jasper Point one day and found a red brecciated jasper monolith the size of a friggin hotel and full of poison oak. Even had a gold mine shaft nearby as most the jasper there has some gold in it. Rock was so dense you could not even get a pick into it but oh such a sight to see. Unfortunately a fellow placed a claim on almost all the poppy jasper pits Tom and I found out there and between him and fire, the whole landscape has kind of changed from what I see on Google earth.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 6, 2022 17:34:30 GMT -5
Oh heck yeah, way too early for a limb cast in chert. We're all mostly lower cretaceous here. That's a stumper. I've never seen many fossils from that period at all. Wonder if there were any boring mollusks that would leave a tunnel as a trace fossil or if that is a partial filled in shell of one of the early cephalopods with the long pointy tube-like shell. A lot of our chert nodules in limestone here are infillings of old voids often left by shells or erosion creating all kinds of weird shaped nodules. Also many of the crinoids from that period were stalked and quite large. Could be you have a stem section where every detail of the original structure was lost and only a tube shape remained to be filled with silica. Quite a fun mystery.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 6, 2022 14:45:04 GMT -5
Looks pretty real. Throwaway duds or practice pieces are not uncommon around Amerind sites. I've found fat ones, curved ones, crooked ones etc that would plainly not have been suitable to actually use as a projectile point.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 6, 2022 8:38:08 GMT -5
Looks kind of like a little limb cast to me. We occasionally find agate limb casts in association with limestone and chert here in Texas.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 5, 2022 17:28:45 GMT -5
Boy, Lavic Siding and most of the Cadys for sure. They steal rockhounding sites and in turn cover a lot of the desert with friggin solar farms and such owned by their buddies. Only folks I've ever seen out there are rockhounds and off roaders. Pretty inhospitable for those not prepared. Sure not a family camping spot. They just don't want anyone using it except a handful of research scientists.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 5, 2022 8:53:11 GMT -5
No pic?
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Post by Sabre52 on May 5, 2022 8:52:16 GMT -5
Yup, Regency Rose which I believe is a particular claim found by Bill Tallman up in the Graveyard Plume area.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 5, 2022 8:36:12 GMT -5
Great colors in that one. I agree Swazis and also the African Malawi's are often heartbreakers with all the dang fractures. Odd that they really resemble Botswanas, but the latter are usually much freer of fractures.
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