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Post by elementary on Feb 22, 2012 3:27:32 GMT -5
-Sorry for duplication in different threads but just making sure those who are interested in this see the announcement. - The 2nd edition of the American Agate/Jasper Index has begun! Vol 1: The Southwest with Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico has been made available! To download - hit the blue button (NOT GREEN), wait the allotted time for a download button to appear, then follow directions. 2012 Agate Index Vol 1 Southwest.pdf55 MB: 245 pages: 230 pages of color photographs: Indexes for Locations, Names, and Contributors. Due to its size, download time will be much greater for this series, but ultimately there will be less volumes to download. If you know the old index, this one has gone through much changes. 1) The new edition is gathering more states together in each volume. Volume One covers Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. The side effect of this effort is that the files are much larger than before. Previously the largest files reached 20 MB. The new volumes will be over double this and reach hundreds of pages. 2) The new edition no longer divides material by state. Instead it gathers all related material in a region together by type for easier reference. For example, all the thundereggs in Volume One will be listed together. Dugway Geodes from Utah will be listed in the same section as Baker Eggs from New Mexico. This will help with identification of material as it means the reader doesn’t need to bounce between states to match a specimen to the photos. 3) There will be indexes at the end of each volume that list the contents by state and location, as well as by common and trade names (if known). This will help people who are using the index to research the type of material found at a specific location. There is also a contributor index in the back showing the page numbers for their photos. Table of Contents: Fossil Material 4 Thundereggs 43 Nodular Agates 70 Dendritic Material 93 Moss Material 104 Plume Material 128 Brecciated Material 149 Orbicular Material 160 Agate - Miscellaneous 166 Jasper - Miscellaneous 202 Other Quartz Material 215 Peripheral Material 225 Contributors 238 Contributor Index 240 Location Index 241 Name Index 244 Final Word 245 Contributors: Don Bagshaw (UT) stores.ebay.com/Dons-Stone-ImagesDaniel Bontempo (KS) Jim Brace-Thompson (CA) Lynn Dalton (UT) www.etsy.com/shop/AgateCabachonSheri Donovan (AZ) www.rockwrapsody.com/Lowell Foster (CA) Jamie Frisby (AZ) Dan Heuer (NM) Don Hixson (AZ/WA) Mel Hixson (TX) Steve Holmes (UT) sites.google.com/site/echostones/Richard Kawamoto (CO) Dick Lamond (CO) Tim Messang (NM) Parfive at RTH.com David Rix - Eibonvale (London) www.thundereggs.co.uk/blog: thundereggs.wordpress.com/Bob Rush (CA) Brian Sellers (AZ) Tony Terner (PA) Ron Wise (CA) Gerald Woodside (WA) Kathy Woodside (WA) and dlcgems.com - Don and Dave Christensen (UT) www.dlcgems.com/www.etsy.com/shop/dlcgems?ref=emElegant Cabs - Jeff and Karyn Bee (AZ) www.elegantcabs.com/Idaho Rock Shop (ID) www.idahorockshop.com/Stones That Rock (AZ) www.stonesthatrock.net/Stoneviews (AZ) stoneviews.com/StoreFront.bokSuperagates - Mark Boche (NE) www.superagates.com/Tom Wolfe Minerals (CA) tomwolfeminerals.com/Please let us know what you think, and we hope this comes in handy, Lowell Foster and Mel Hixson
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Post by elementary on Feb 22, 2012 3:24:10 GMT -5
The 2nd edition of the American Agate/Jasper Index has begun! Vol 1: The Southwest with Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico has been made available! To download - hit the blue button (NOT GREEN), wait the allotted time for a download button to appear, then follow directions. 2012 Agate Index Vol 1 Southwest.pdf55 MB: 245 pages: 230 pages of color photographs: Indexes for Locations, Names, and Contributors. Due to its size, download time will be much greater for this series, but ultimately there will be less volumes to download. If you know the old index, this one has gone through many changes. 1) The new edition is gathering more states together in each volume. Volume One covers Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. The side effect of this effort is that the files are much larger than before. Previously the largest files reached 20 MB. The new volumes will be over double this and reach hundreds of pages. 2) The new edition no longer divides material by state. Instead it gathers all related material in a region together by type for easier reference. For example, all the thundereggs in Volume One will be listed together. Dugway Geodes from Utah will be listed in the same section as Baker Eggs from New Mexico. This will help with identification of material as it means the reader doesn’t need to bounce between states to match a specimen to the photos. 3) There will be indexes at the end of each volume that list the contents by state and location, as well as by common and trade names (if known). This will help people who are using the index to research the type of material found at a specific location. There is also a contributor index in the back showing the page numbers for their photos. Table of Contents: Fossil Material 4 Thundereggs 43 Nodular Agates 70 Dendritic Material 93 Moss Material 104 Plume Material 128 Brecciated Material 149 Orbicular Material 160 Agate - Miscellaneous 166 Jasper - Miscellaneous 202 Other Quartz Material 215 Peripheral Material 225 Contributors 238 Contributor Index 240 Location Index 241 Name Index 244 Final Word 245 Contributors: Don Bagshaw (UT) stores.ebay.com/Dons-Stone-ImagesDaniel Bontempo (KS) Jim Brace-Thompson (CA) Lynn Dalton (UT) www.etsy.com/shop/AgateCabachonSheri Donovan (AZ) www.rockwrapsody.com/Lowell Foster (CA) Jamie Frisby (AZ) Dan Heuer (NM) Don Hixson (AZ/WA) Mel Hixson (TX) Steve Holmes (UT) sites.google.com/site/echostones/Richard Kawamoto (CO) Dick Lamond (CO) Tim Messang (NM) Parfive at RTH.com David Rix - Eibonvale (London) www.thundereggs.co.uk/blog: thundereggs.wordpress.com/Bob Rush (CA) Brian Sellers (AZ) Tony Terner (PA) Ron Wise (CA) Gerald Woodside (WA) Kathy Woodside (WA) and dlcgems.com - Don and Dave Christensen (UT) www.dlcgems.com/www.etsy.com/shop/dlcgems?ref=emElegant Cabs - Jeff and Karyn Bee (AZ) www.elegantcabs.com/Idaho Rock Shop (ID) www.idahorockshop.com/Stones That Rock (AZ) www.stonesthatrock.net/Stoneviews (AZ) stoneviews.com/StoreFront.bokSuperagates - Mark Boche (NE) www.superagates.com/Tom Wolfe Minerals (CA) tomwolfeminerals.com/Please let us know what you think, and we hope this comes in handy, Lowell Foster and Mel Hixson
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Post by elementary on Feb 22, 2012 3:07:59 GMT -5
Initial Volume of 2012 American Agate/Jasper Index is released:
Volume 1: Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado 245 pages. 55 MB. 230 pages of color material. With indexes. See revised message at top of this thread!
We hope you like it,
Lowell and Mel
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2012 0:44:13 GMT -5
Mel, I got quite a pile from your backyard. Some went to the club (there was so much I grabbed when you moved, I needed to send some elsewhere). Don, Here are some pieces from that pile: I'll look at those buckets again tomorrow to see if I have any others that show much difference from what I just posted. Don't know if this helps. ---Oh - Don - if you have shots of material from other collecting sites in that area - especially the ones you've just mentioned - can you post them here so I can see other differences between locations. Much appreciated. Utah is a place I have a lot to learn about. Much thanks, Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2012 0:34:47 GMT -5
Wound up going to a local estate sale and picked up a random box of sealed medicine bottles. I started going through it and came across a couple jars of 'eh' tumbled stones, another with some interesting tumbled obsidian (rainbow, sheen) that can't match Mel's in quality, a small batch of peridot: another marked 'emerald' two marked amazonite and then I picked up this jar filled with a thick amber liquid and held it up...hello and another and another and another another couple with turquoise and amethyst pieces These are going to be great to give my kids - at least the inexpensive finds. My question - what value does the opal fragments have - and I also see at least four different types. Is anybody able to i.d. the origins of any of this stuff? Value? I'd like to give pieces to my students, but if the value is too high, then I should look into saving them for some other use. Don't know what that would be, but right now, I don't know what I have. Thanks, Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2012 18:06:30 GMT -5
that's whale PENiS to you, Jason...
Mind your manners....
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2012 17:06:20 GMT -5
Holy cow...never knew these things existed....Looked it up and seems like eskimos sell fossilized walrus versions.
And to paraphrase the movie "Bachelor Party"
"to think I held a strange animal's petersite in my hands..."
So I was right...the end was used for grinding...
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2012 16:58:27 GMT -5
I was going through the buckets at my club's shop and came across a small pile of opalite that I hadn't seen before. Does anybody recognize this stuff? Today at the estate sale I just went to, I came across another piece, which makes me think it's local to Cal, but nobody seems to know it. I'm thinking Black Mountain by Opal Mountain as a hunch, as the two colors I've seen are reddish and greenish, and Scouts Cove over there used to produce opal of those colors, but that is pure guesswork. I'm sticking it here as it is a pretty material, and if I can get it ID"ed, I'll alter the heading to represent its provenance. thanks for looking: As a side note - if you have ANY material from Black Mountain or Opal Mountain that you can take a picture of, i'd appreciate seeing it, as I have not seen material from either of those sites, and would like to. Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2012 16:49:54 GMT -5
Thank you for posting this.
In looking at the two pictures, I notice an immediate difference involving the amount of dendrites in the Cosmos agate.
I also, in the Brian Head, I see more of a consistency (in this sampling) of the colors - the Reds and the blacks, whereas the Cosmos seems to have more of a dispersal of color.
Though similar - your description of location and seeing the material side by side seems to indicate that they should be treated as different - though related by proximity.
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2012 16:40:28 GMT -5
Damn!
Love them all, especially that first one!
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 19, 2012 16:32:20 GMT -5
I went to an estate sale this morning and picked up some various things (see future post in members section.) One item I picked up appeared to be bone, but it is extremely dense and smooth, and it looks like one side was used for crushing or grinding. Please look and let me know if you have any idea... thanks Thanks for looking, Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 17, 2012 21:26:09 GMT -5
This is too bad.
I enjoyed his site. There was overlap between the two, but there was also a difference of 'personality' if you will. Like rock clubs, both forums did the same type of things, but they did it differently enough with the people involved to make it worthwhile to visit and be a part of both.
I hope it gets resurrected.
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 12, 2012 18:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by elementary on Feb 11, 2012 21:11:46 GMT -5
Excellent across the board.
You've really caught my eye with the greens and the read feathery ones.
Beautiful and magnificent.
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 11, 2012 11:08:38 GMT -5
Very impressive!!!
I know a few old timers who only cabbed with their fingers...and their stuff is incredible.
Of course their fingers are now lil nubby things and they have no feeling above their knuckles...
Keep it up!
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 10, 2012 10:02:32 GMT -5
Da-yum!
I mean, gosh darn it all - DA-YUM
That cab from that rough caught me off guard and all I can say is
Da-YUM!!!
Great blue skies that is gorgeous.
Great job!
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 10, 2012 9:59:39 GMT -5
I like Kramer. It takes a lot of walking, but the black dendrites on pink agate can be pretty. Plus there is one hole in that whole area that produces purple: Happy hunting!
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Post by elementary on Feb 9, 2012 13:22:19 GMT -5
yeah, I hear you "It sucks all the time..." which I disagree. Come rockhounding in our deserts and I'll convert you. So maybe I need to modify to "L.A. Sucks" They just passed a law to ban throwing frisbees and footballs and etc on the beach in all of LA County. $1,000 fine if you're caught. Exceptions are beach balls, volleyballs (DUDE!) and, ah hell. I'm too depressed to read more. Good news? They may 'ease up' on the off season. I guess people have paid so much for their new noses and, um, enhanced floatation devices, they don't want them broken, bruised or popped by misplaced balls or rotating discs. See: beta.local.yahoo.com/news-la-county-oks-000-fine-throwing-football-frisbee-beachesF N Idiots
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Post by elementary on Feb 9, 2012 13:13:46 GMT -5
Mel,
As always, you work magic with those machines of yours.
Those tears I got last week are yours as you need them. I'll post a box out to you hopefully in the next week. As for returns, just keep me up on tumbled pieces for my class. It's all I ask. Oh...and the occasional shrinkwood. That stuff's fascinating... If you liked the Cady Mix, I have more.
(I already need to mail a box to tntmom - been in my car for 3 weeks, the auction box to wyobrian, the agate trade box to Thunder69, and...heck...I just need to get to the post office..hmmm, with where I am today, maybe I'm just wary about entering governmental edifices...)
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Feb 9, 2012 13:07:31 GMT -5
10:00 o'clock and ALL'S WELL!!!
I'm on break until 10:20. I usually hate when time passes quickly but in here it's a blessing.
As for jury duty, I've been on two juries the last three times I've been called, and was the foreman of one of them. I guess they like teachers, as I'm essentially a judge jury and executioner (symbolically) in my classroom.
The last time I was called, not one jury panel was pulled. We had a fire drill at 2:30 in the afternoon and then went home. It was really kind of them to make me feel at home like that. We tend to do a drill of some kind every other week at school (fire/earthquake/lockdown - for intruders on campus) so the practice was, well, helpful, I guess.
Hoping to check in at lunchtime....
Lowell
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