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Post by Bob on Mar 25, 2024 19:41:52 GMT -5
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Post by Bob on Mar 25, 2024 19:48:52 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on Mar 25, 2024 19:53:12 GMT -5
Great job on ALL!
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Post by Bob on Mar 25, 2024 20:01:37 GMT -5
Rocks collected from Lake Superior SE side USA and Canadian NE and N side. Just love some of the deep rich green ones. Never have seen anything like this. I'm guessing might be white/clear aventurine with muscovite inclusions. Lab grown alexandrite. Sorry out of focus!
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pebblesky
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Post by pebblesky on Mar 25, 2024 20:19:33 GMT -5
These are so nice and the picture qualities are great!
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ThomasT
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Post by ThomasT on Mar 25, 2024 20:34:50 GMT -5
Wow... Great looking finish job on some nice materials.
The made Alexandrite is very interesting.
Bob, you're the man.
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Post by dillonf on Mar 25, 2024 20:37:58 GMT -5
Awesome batches! Great variety. I don't think that one is a leopard jasper. If it is, it is not like any I've tumbled. I think leopard jasper is actually a type of rhyolite- yours doesn't look like rhyolite. It is very nice though!
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Post by Son Of Beach on Mar 25, 2024 21:04:02 GMT -5
Nice batches again Bob. I like the Lapis and Snowflake obsidian. I think your mystery rock might be "Rainforest Jasper" I was gifted some of the material and it looks similar.
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Post by Bob on Mar 25, 2024 22:20:20 GMT -5
Thx Son of Beach, that's what it is. I remember now ordering a bit of it when I got the dragon blood. Both I suspect are rhyolites due to lousy tumbling experience. Very few pieces came through with solid corners that didn't keep falling apart.
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hplcman
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Post by hplcman on Mar 26, 2024 9:54:50 GMT -5
That is a beautiful batch! I can’t imagine processing 36 pounds of rock like that! I’m sometimes overwhelmed with my 12 pounds at a time!
Seeing all that variety makes me happy!!
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 26, 2024 10:27:18 GMT -5
Wow, that's a lot of beautiful rocks, Bob. What is the green group just after the tiger eye? I'm also wondering what the iridescent green rock is all by itself in the upper right of the picture three past the previously mentioned group of green rocks. It's above two pieces of rutilated quartz.
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Post by Bob on Mar 26, 2024 11:23:02 GMT -5
Wow, that's a lot of beautiful rocks, Bob. What is the green group just after the tiger eye? I'm also wondering what the iridescent green rock is all by itself in the upper right of the picture three past the previously mentioned group of green rocks. It's above two pieces of rutilated quartz. Rob, those sea green ones are prehnite, one of my fav rocks. I've been buying some off and on for several years and finally learning how to spot the higher quality pieces. I got some really good stuff at Quartzsite in Jan. This material has a strange, radiating, fibrous internal structure. The other one is a piece of glass that accidentally got in with all this other stuff. Odd that it came out pretty good. I started to make up some story about finding an emerald in Colombia or something like that.
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adam5
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Post by adam5 on Mar 26, 2024 19:50:57 GMT -5
So many great rocks! Thanks for sharing
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 27, 2024 14:58:08 GMT -5
Wow, that's a lot of beautiful rocks, Bob. What is the green group just after the tiger eye? I'm also wondering what the iridescent green rock is all by itself in the upper right of the picture three past the previously mentioned group of green rocks. It's above two pieces of rutilated quartz. Rob, those sea green ones are prehnite, one of my fav rocks. I've been buying some off and on for several years and finally learning how to spot the higher quality pieces. I got some really good stuff at Quartzsite in Jan. This material has a strange, radiating, fibrous internal structure. The other one is a piece of glass that accidentally got in with all this other stuff. Odd that it came out pretty good. I started to make up some story about finding an emerald in Colombia or something like that. I keep trying to find decent prehnite in the U.P. but I haven't found anything even close to yours.
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Post by Bob on Mar 29, 2024 12:38:58 GMT -5
Rob, those sea green ones are prehnite, one of my fav rocks. I've been buying some off and on for several years and finally learning how to spot the higher quality pieces. I got some really good stuff at Quartzsite in Jan. This material has a strange, radiating, fibrous internal structure. The other one is a piece of glass that accidentally got in with all this other stuff. Odd that it came out pretty good. I started to make up some story about finding an emerald in Colombia or something like that. I keep trying to find decent prehnite in the U.P. but I haven't found anything even close to yours. We have had some private discussions about how I have studied minerology enough to try at least to classify material that is suitable for tumbling and make sense of all the terms for materials being sold, which is confusing and sometimes misleading. Now and then, I look up a material at random I've never seen in person, but that I predict might tumble okay, and buy a little if it's something I can't find in the field. This is exactly an example of when I did that and I've done that with several materials. First, I'll just buy something cheap on eBay or similar to get an idea of what it's like, knowing it's probably not high quality. Then I'll try and learn. My first piece reminded me of a lemon drop botryoidal piece covered with sugar, except a different color. Although the quality was low and the polish mediocre, I loved the unique color! Those very light colored pieces are highly fractured and the result of my buying a piece about the size of a lemon that had to be sawn up and there were voids almost everywhere in it and little could be kept. Most of the pieces that are darker have lots of black tourmaline in them and no way to go to perfection in the surface, like rutilated quartz, unless you get lucky. 2-3 of the very rich and uniform green pieces are high quality, and one of them is like jewelry and no tour inside and it's very striking. One of the reasons I went to Quartzsite was see if I could find some high quality, and I did. Never let the seller wet it, because it will hide the internal problems. Like tiger's eye, it can at times have some fibrous surface areas that are touchy. So on those I use the Opticon trt.
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Post by dshanpnw on Apr 3, 2024 19:14:18 GMT -5
Great job on all Bob. I've compiled a list, favorites first then questions. The petrified wood in photo #2 is superior; The unakite is beautiful; then the inferno jasper and psilomelane are great. Now the questions. Any idea what the striped one is at the bottom center of photo #1? It's very nice. What is the pink group in #9 photo below the aventurine? The unknown one in the last photo with patterns you haven't seen before is very interesting. Thanks for sharing and the photos are great.
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pebblesky
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Post by pebblesky on Apr 3, 2024 21:25:19 GMT -5
The prehnite are really lovely!
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Post by Bob on Apr 4, 2024 14:45:19 GMT -5
Great job on all Bob. I've compiled a list, favorites first then questions. The petrified wood in photo #2 is superior; The unakite is beautiful; then the inferno jasper and psilomelane are great. Now the questions. Any idea what the striped one is at the bottom center of photo #1? It's very nice. What is the pink group in #9 photo below the aventurine? The unknown one in the last photo with patterns you haven't seen before is very interesting. Thanks for sharing and the photos are great. I'm so glad you enjoy the PW too. After collecting it for years, I'm tumbling quite a bit of it, some all the time. It took several years of experimenting with my trim saw, but I'm finally courageous enough to really tear into it and not be bothered by having to sacrifice a lot of fractured areas to get to the solid stuff that will turn out nicely. Although most of it is kind of boring browns and dark grays and tans, from OK and TX primarily, I find it almost everywhere in the field and some of it has some amazing colors and patterns. That large palm size piece on far L is amazing and one of my favs. I'm also rather found of almost pure black pieces but that still show the wood grain upon close inspection. Last weekend, I collected a piece 4" in diameter and almost a foot long. But my experience is that most of it will be not very good looking after first week in rough grind and require being sawn up a lot. That striped one is one of the rare pieces of banded chert that show more than 3 colors. Most banded chert has only 2. A banded one like that is kind of rare, way less than 1% of what I find. Almost all of that comes from the area where OK, AR, and MO meet. The pink is rhodonite and some of rather low quality. The photo that preceded it was amazonite. There are 2 pieces of green aventurine later on in one photo.
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Post by dshanpnw on Apr 5, 2024 10:35:47 GMT -5
Great job on all Bob. I've compiled a list, favorites first then questions. The petrified wood in photo #2 is superior; The unakite is beautiful; then the inferno jasper and psilomelane are great. Now the questions. Any idea what the striped one is at the bottom center of photo #1? It's very nice. What is the pink group in #9 photo below the aventurine? The unknown one in the last photo with patterns you haven't seen before is very interesting. Thanks for sharing and the photos are great. I'm so glad you enjoy the PW too. After collecting it for years, I'm tumbling quite a bit of it, some all the time. It took several years of experimenting with my trim saw, but I'm finally courageous enough to really tear into it and not be bothered by having to sacrifice a lot of fractured areas to get to the solid stuff that will turn out nicely. Although most of it is kind of boring browns and dark grays and tans, from OK and TX primarily, I find it almost everywhere in the field and some of it has some amazing colors and patterns. That large palm size piece on far L is amazing and one of my favs. I'm also rather found of almost pure black pieces but that still show the wood grain upon close inspection. Last weekend, I collected a piece 4" in diameter and almost a foot long. But my experience is that most of it will be not very good looking after first week in rough grind and require being sawn up a lot. That striped one is one of the rare pieces of banded chert that show more than 3 colors. Most banded chert has only 2. A banded one like that is kind of rare, way less than 1% of what I find. Almost all of that comes from the area where OK, AR, and MO meet. The pink is rhodonite and some of rather low quality. The photo that preceded it was amazonite. There are 2 pieces of green aventurine later on in one photo. Amazonite, I should have known. Thanks for the sharing your passion for rocks.
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Post by johnthor1963 on Apr 6, 2024 17:02:47 GMT -5
Wow can’t stop looking at these. Can’t believe I missed them for so long. Awesome job on all of them I like the idea of all the states all together. You really nailed it well done I think your patience pays off big on this batch looking forward to your next batch thanks for sharing
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