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Post by elementary on Jan 23, 2011 23:30:39 GMT -5
Ah Fran, you went and done it!!!!!
PM me your address and the box will be out later this week of California stuff....
Of course, if you think you already have enough stuff, I'll just keep my empty Medium flat rate here....
(I'm very envious of your spinning wheel. Wish myself had one....)
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 22, 2011 20:29:16 GMT -5
That question is always a complement in the tumbling world.
Nice batch!
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Post by elementary on Jan 22, 2011 12:39:05 GMT -5
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Post by elementary on Jan 21, 2011 2:24:06 GMT -5
Vol 8 Error fixed & new link added
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Post by elementary on Jan 21, 2011 1:01:22 GMT -5
Hey! I'm right down the road from you. I belong to the Ventura club. The field trip in march is out to to the Cady Mountains where I've been collecting the red moss and plume agate samples I've been posting.
You are joining at the right time. The VGMS president (and I believe your president) is Rob Sankovich who is also now the field trip co-chair for Southern California with Adam Deane. So there is a lot of stuff coming up during the next few months.
Have a great time hunting!
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 18, 2011 22:35:06 GMT -5
Those are awesome! I love the difference in color than what you normally see from tumbles.
By chance, do you know their origin?
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 17, 2011 19:16:41 GMT -5
Well, when I posted that I was done for a while posting photos, I forgot that today is a holiday. Well, my daughter still went to daycare and I had a few hours to go outside and fuss about. Here's the plateful of goodness I was able to rustle up: There's Mexican goodness, Aussie finery, Cady plumage, Dryhead, a reworked Christmas tree agate (hate those scratches you notice when you think you're done...), two from Chuckwalla Springs, and a couple from a place called Herorthere. For dessert I have a piece of blueberry pie: Here's the crust: and a view from either side: and (It's the red moss from the S. Cady's) I also cut a few things Saturday morning - here's just a couple: Mexican - from the estate giveaway: And a couple Aussie: Thanks for looking and I'm sorry I lied...I promise to be more truthful about future postings in the future. (Maybe) Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 16, 2011 17:28:21 GMT -5
Hey Fran,
You show us something cut, and I'll send you something from the west coast to cut!!!
But you got to show us a picture of your new acquisition in a not so pristine condition!!!! Once you post that photo, PM me your address!!!
Mwa ha ha ha!!!
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 16, 2011 17:17:37 GMT -5
That first single is incredible!!!!
Great work!
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Post by elementary on Jan 16, 2011 17:16:32 GMT -5
Damn that's a shiny batch of stones!!!
Wow! Great stuff,
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 16, 2011 4:48:36 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
In putting together geode/t-egg section of the California Index, I got the urge to put together a collector's guide the the Hauser Bed region of Southern California. The guide will cover from the Chuckwalla Mountains across to Thumb Butte/Clapp Spring, and down to the Southern Hauser beds (Road's End, etc.) It does not provide GPS level coordinates but will have basic maps and color photos of many of the locations - along with images of the agate types found at each site. I have material from a wide range of sites, but if you have something different or awesome from anywhere down there, take a photo and post it and please allow me to include it in my guide. Just post it here and PM me with your name, if you want to be credited. This guide, like the indexes, will be free to download, so I'm not making money with it. I'm doing this as a service to the hobby. The guide will probably be updated with major additions as I revisit the Wiley Well district, but I don't know how often that will be.
Items or specimens that I have few or no images of include - Opal Hill Fire Agate Paisley Agate Strawbeds Geodes Hidden Saddle Geodes Psilomene (heck - this is probably misspelled but I am not checking spelling this late at night.) Chuckwalla Well agate Gem Hollow Nodules (Graham Pass nodules) what might you have that is different or unusual or spectacular???
Thanks all for the help,
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 16, 2011 4:38:24 GMT -5
Vol 8 removed due to a technical problem.
Will have it fixed or reloaded by Monday.
Vol 10 is being worked on right now for California. It's a monster that might rival Oregon in size.
As a subset to the Agate Index, I am putting together a collector's guide for the Wiley Well/Hauser Geode Bed region of California. It will not provide GPS level coordinates, but will have basic maps and color photos of both locations and material found there. If you have any material from this region - from Chuckwalla springs across to Thumb Butte and the Opal Hill Mine, and down to the geode fields themselves, please post photos - even show-off pieces. I'd love to see them, and if possible, use them in the guide.
Have a good day,
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 16, 2011 3:35:33 GMT -5
Sorry for being offline. Been a busy week. I sent my address to Bob tonight before reading the thread, but I'm glad that Pebblepup is not being missed.
Bob, I'll send a message to Pebblepup with my address so there won't be delays later.
Thanks Rockhobbit for everything. Do you have any requests as it goes to you from me at the end of it all?
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 9, 2011 21:02:39 GMT -5
Got tired of working with South Cady materials and moved to material 20 miles or so to the north. Here's a couple examples from the Northern Cadys - primarily white and grey and blue - but the blue washed out of the pictures in this light. Nodules: Seam with Plume: Together: The extras are two of those Mexican nodules (Agua Nueva or Laguna or whatever) from the estate giveaway a while back: -sorry for the blurred images. I'd reshoot but I've already packed away the pieces. Christmas Tree Agate: And one from a bucket of Mexican material I got from Mel a few years ago. I just cut it. Hey Mel, what is this thing??? Thanks for looking. School starts again tomorrow so you'll get a break from my postings for a while. Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 9, 2011 15:22:35 GMT -5
I asked a friend who is down there to pick up a couple pieces of that wonderful stuff for me. What was the vender charging for rough, if I may ask?
I can only hope that the ones he picked up were as good as that!
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 6, 2011 18:54:43 GMT -5
Nate,
It's just a hair over 2 inches long so not very big, but it has some of the best contrast in color of all the pieces I picked up. Bill, the owner of Diamond Pacific who led us the day I found this, said that he pried out a 30 pound chunk back in the 50's. Ah, the good ol' days - before interstates and liability insurance...
Lowell
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Post by elementary on Jan 6, 2011 13:00:58 GMT -5
Christopher1234 posted material from this site recently. I visited this location a week after the CFMS field trip hit it. It looked like a giant vacuum cleaner sucked every loose rock off the ground. There was no obvious place to look and there wasn't much time to dig a hole as it was late in the day. So I dug in the piles of debris left by some of the older pits and came across some smaller pieces of what may be the agate (I haven't seen an official sample so I don't know.) Still, it's purty stuff. Two views:
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Post by elementary on Jan 6, 2011 13:00:11 GMT -5
Christopher1234 posted material from this site recently. I visited this location a week after the CFMS field trip hit it. It looked like a giant vacuum cleaner sucked every loose rock off the ground. There was no obvious place to look and there wasn't much time to dig a hole as it was late in the day. So I dug in the piles of debris left by some of the older pits and came across some smaller pieces of what may be the agate (I haven't seen an official sample so I don't know.) Still, it's purty stuff. Two views:
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Post by elementary on Jan 6, 2011 12:52:55 GMT -5
Not much else to say about this one except As a true Texan product, it shows off its colors proudly!
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Post by elementary on Dec 31, 2010 19:07:43 GMT -5
With winter break happening, I called a friend to see if he could go rockhounding the day after Christmas. My father and I go every year at this time - usually to the Hauser Geode Beds - but this time I wanted to go back to the Southern Cady's where all the recent activity has been going on. Well, my friend called another and another and another and we had 12 people and 6 vehicles heading out to the S. Cady's. We hit the same spot as Woody and I visited a month ago. Here's another picture looking down into the valley where the I-40 cuts across. This time we were heading to the next ridge in from the slope I have been finding the red moss agate. Here it is seam agate. It was overcast so it was hard to judge the depth of the agate I was prying out of the ridge. I got bored so I headed over to the former spot and picked up a bucket of the small plume/flame agate I came across last time. Here's one example - Here's another piece - polished: Most of my stuff I had to leave at my parents' home because of all the holiday gifts and luggage I was hauling around, so no photos of that stuff. I did bring home three flats of the more unusual material that we collected this time. I don't know what to call it: tube agate maybe? Anyways, I saw it first when coming back to the parking area. One of the guys had his tailgate open to hold his finds. The best pieces look like petrified fireworks. Here's some closer pics of his stash. When I saw them, I went up to the ridge and found it consisted of fractured rock riddled with these seams of incomplete agate. By popping open the seams, vugs appeared with these formations inside. Here's a couple of mine: (No Flash and Flash) Then, up a ways, I found a chunk of stone fallen from above with a large cavity. The whole top was loose so I popped it off and out came a miniature forest with double terminated crystals. Not the most colorful but a neat specimen: And that's it for now. I'm thinking about heading out on Monday for one final hunt before having to get back to school... Thanks for looking, Lowell
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