Don
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Post by Don on Apr 1, 2011 17:10:21 GMT -5
Here's a fairly rare specimen of a pale blue agate from southern Utah.
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rockwizz
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Post by rockwizz on Apr 1, 2011 19:11:01 GMT -5
Wow must be the last piece from cedar city,, cause I have not seen anymore holly blue in Utah in a while
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Post by gr on Apr 1, 2011 20:36:35 GMT -5
are you going to cut it Don? If you do, post a pic of it. Looks alot like some blue chalcedony that I find once and a while
gary
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Post by kap on Apr 1, 2011 20:39:54 GMT -5
WOW I love the color. Keith
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 1, 2011 21:16:24 GMT -5
Wow nice color in that one!.....Mel
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Post by Jack, lapidaryrough on Apr 1, 2011 21:50:49 GMT -5
Wow must be the last piece from cedar city,, cause I have not seen anymore holly blue in Utah in a while Holley,Oregon, Holley Blue agate is a location name - 4 miles south of Lebanon Oregon. Holley Oregon is a store and 50 homes at best. Blue agate is ...... Potassium Ferraro Cyanide in solution an silica mix. Depositing in a sedimentation deposit. In Holley Oregon the matrix for the agate is formed in rotten pillow basalt formation. though the agate can be found in a 15 mile radius around Scott Mt. where the Old dig is. Closed in 1997.
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Post by sandsman1 on Apr 2, 2011 0:03:19 GMT -5
theres just something about a blue rock haha love the blues
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Post by tanyafrench on Apr 3, 2011 8:42:52 GMT -5
Oh yeah, that blue is so soothing!
Tanya
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Post by christopherl1234 on Apr 3, 2011 12:58:17 GMT -5
lets see some cabs!!
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Don
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Post by Don on Apr 4, 2011 10:37:43 GMT -5
Wow must be the last piece from cedar city,, cause I have not seen anymore holly blue in Utah in a while There's still some left, just takes some digging and a little luck. it's nice when the construction workers do the digging for you
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Post by beefjello on Apr 4, 2011 21:46:22 GMT -5
That's a nice hue!
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