daisyd681
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by daisyd681 on Feb 13, 2011 16:05:19 GMT -5
I was gifted this from a relative. It looks like quartz, except for the shaping. It seems like it has layers of softer and harder material, in a bowl shape. Attachments:
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Post by Jack, lapidaryrough on Feb 13, 2011 16:27:19 GMT -5
looks like the white agate cap off of a piece of Deer creek fire agate. The original desert rose material.
Jack
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daisyd681
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Post by daisyd681 on Feb 13, 2011 17:10:45 GMT -5
Do you find that up where you are? The relative who gave it to me lives a little ways from Turner. I can't remember exactly where as I was following my step-grandpa down all those back roads. Couldn't get there again on my own if I tried.
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 13, 2011 17:59:12 GMT -5
Looks like a chalcedony rose to me. Lots of them found in the California deserts. Don
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 13, 2011 18:19:27 GMT -5
Yup chalcedony rose. They are very cool. Nice piece u got there
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daisyd681
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by daisyd681 on Feb 13, 2011 18:24:58 GMT -5
He had very many coffee cans full of rocks. This one jumped out at me. I finally figured out what to do with it. It just didn't seem like all the other stuff I've seen. Thanks for the ID.
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Post by Jack, lapidaryrough on Feb 14, 2011 1:20:22 GMT -5
Daisyd681;
i bet step Grandpa lift you with a Coffee can of fire agate. are the coffee cans marked? like Coon Hollow, Wiley California. They`l have a clear or white agate like your photo, white agate capping brown laminate with a matrix, Our just brown agate on matrix
Jack in Oregon
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daisyd681
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Post by daisyd681 on Feb 14, 2011 10:41:05 GMT -5
There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the cans. There were several in the house, which he said we could pick some out of (my son is very into rocks too). Then he showed us his setup in the garage where there were a LOT more cans. (He must drink a lot of coffee too). I'm pretty sure if there had been fire agate in the can I would have ended up with a peice, but that doen't mean there wasn't any. The can he gave us to look through was all stuff he was willing to part with, the scrap, so to speak. I also ended up with a peice of half petrified wood, and some really cool red agate with blue "rivers" running in it.
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Post by Jack, lapidaryrough on Feb 14, 2011 11:26:08 GMT -5
i to only drink color`ed water, MJB. and i have a lot of coffee containers full of grinding wheel material.
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