Post by elementary on Jul 13, 2012 17:43:44 GMT -5
First of all - I want to say thank you for everyone who's been working on - providing information about - and responding to - my problem with the Index files. I am finding out again how awesome people can be around here. I see there has been some posting and responses - but I haven't read them yet. I've barely been able to get through all my PMs.
But I will. And again - THANK YOU. I'll be getting back into the groove
BUT
In the meantime, I took a little break from this board and the other I visit, and took a break from worrying about the index. I wanted to get back to what got me all excited about this hobby in the first place - grinding stones!
So a few days ago I plopped my padded behind on the stool in front of my Titan and began pulling agates off the shelf behind me. I really didn't care what I grabbed. The pieces I didn't need would be donated to the kid's booth for next years CFMS show. The pieces I likes would be kept.
Here they are:
Destined for the kid's booth spinning wheel prize box:
Left to right (Cady Mtn Plume/Two limbs leaning on two Cady nodules/(front - large curve - Christmas Tree Agate - South Cady/ (Top) Lead Pipe Springs Tegg/(Below) Mex Agate/(Bottom - washed out white) Turtle Mnt Nodule/ (top red) Unknown - poss. Agate Creek Austr./ (bottom) Woodward ranch nodule/(far right) core of Black Hills black agate t-egg)
Lead Pipe:
Closer look at the Agate Creek (?) Has white crust over exterior
Mex agate
Core of Black Hills Black agate (wish it wasn't cracked)
THE KEEPERS:
North Cady White Plume (sorry details washed out by light)
Simple Arrowhead Lane Nodule
Okay - I will tell you what I see --- I see a mushroom. You weird people can see something else in this.......
(oh, I think it's a parceles...)
Mex agate - might be a kid booth prize...
Disdero Agate (THANK YOU TNT MOM 0 Krystee (please tell me I spelled that right.....)
Probably a barite nodule from around Moab Utah (Anyone know better....)
Love how it came out...
Mexican agate bought from one of the owner's family of Diamond Pacific. He said two years ago a guy came up from mexico with a sack of new agates that he needed to market for the miner. Well, the guy with the sack - the middleman - died - and noone could find the miner. Evidently the owner finally showed up at Quartzite this past year selling his own stuff.
At least that is the tale. This was one of about 20 small pieces of rough Don had...
Two views of texas springs limbcast.
Poor lost Bruneau Mine - this is for you...
Southern Cady Pisgah Road borderline flame...
(edit - forgot this guy)
A nodule showing pseudomorphism (is that a word?) where crystals used to be before being replaced by agate. There were quite a few of these guys on a hill a friend and I call Flattop in the Northern Cadys.
The side shows some of the former crystalline structure. The interior view shows the patterns formed by the agate.
It's not huge, but it's interesting as a specimen.
(sample frpm same site....picture a couple years old...)
Finally a condor that had windows on both sides of a small nodule -
I couldn't decide which I liked better - ergo both sides are now polished.
Whew....my fingers ache - but that was fun.
I need to remember to relax.
Be talking with you all soon (both happily and regarding Index)
So to all a Good Night!
OH - See some of you at the CFMS show in Riverside this Weekend!!
Lowell
But I will. And again - THANK YOU. I'll be getting back into the groove
BUT
In the meantime, I took a little break from this board and the other I visit, and took a break from worrying about the index. I wanted to get back to what got me all excited about this hobby in the first place - grinding stones!
So a few days ago I plopped my padded behind on the stool in front of my Titan and began pulling agates off the shelf behind me. I really didn't care what I grabbed. The pieces I didn't need would be donated to the kid's booth for next years CFMS show. The pieces I likes would be kept.
Here they are:
Destined for the kid's booth spinning wheel prize box:
Left to right (Cady Mtn Plume/Two limbs leaning on two Cady nodules/(front - large curve - Christmas Tree Agate - South Cady/ (Top) Lead Pipe Springs Tegg/(Below) Mex Agate/(Bottom - washed out white) Turtle Mnt Nodule/ (top red) Unknown - poss. Agate Creek Austr./ (bottom) Woodward ranch nodule/(far right) core of Black Hills black agate t-egg)
Lead Pipe:
Closer look at the Agate Creek (?) Has white crust over exterior
Mex agate
Core of Black Hills Black agate (wish it wasn't cracked)
THE KEEPERS:
North Cady White Plume (sorry details washed out by light)
Simple Arrowhead Lane Nodule
Okay - I will tell you what I see --- I see a mushroom. You weird people can see something else in this.......
(oh, I think it's a parceles...)
Mex agate - might be a kid booth prize...
Disdero Agate (THANK YOU TNT MOM 0 Krystee (please tell me I spelled that right.....)
Probably a barite nodule from around Moab Utah (Anyone know better....)
Love how it came out...
Mexican agate bought from one of the owner's family of Diamond Pacific. He said two years ago a guy came up from mexico with a sack of new agates that he needed to market for the miner. Well, the guy with the sack - the middleman - died - and noone could find the miner. Evidently the owner finally showed up at Quartzite this past year selling his own stuff.
At least that is the tale. This was one of about 20 small pieces of rough Don had...
Two views of texas springs limbcast.
Poor lost Bruneau Mine - this is for you...
Southern Cady Pisgah Road borderline flame...
(edit - forgot this guy)
A nodule showing pseudomorphism (is that a word?) where crystals used to be before being replaced by agate. There were quite a few of these guys on a hill a friend and I call Flattop in the Northern Cadys.
The side shows some of the former crystalline structure. The interior view shows the patterns formed by the agate.
It's not huge, but it's interesting as a specimen.
(sample frpm same site....picture a couple years old...)
Finally a condor that had windows on both sides of a small nodule -
I couldn't decide which I liked better - ergo both sides are now polished.
Whew....my fingers ache - but that was fun.
I need to remember to relax.
Be talking with you all soon (both happily and regarding Index)
So to all a Good Night!
OH - See some of you at the CFMS show in Riverside this Weekend!!
Lowell