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Post by mohs on Nov 17, 2014 18:29:32 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Nov 17, 2014 18:37:00 GMT -5
The Cartersville to Ringold area is a great target to hunt rocks and artifacts. Cartersville is about the most geologically rich area of Georgia. it is either at a fault or at an intersection of several faults. And has fossils. There is another spot that has cave formations apparently from a fallen cave. The barite pits used to be fine source of specimen barite and was fluorescent. Lots of strange minerals at those sites.
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Post by broseph82 on Nov 17, 2014 20:03:19 GMT -5
I cannot wait until a nice hard rain to go back to Cartersville for that big football looking piece if it's still there. Not sure how far down it went but it was a pretty good size! Only had little rock hammers and a smaller shovel. Ground was way too hard.
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Post by quartz on Nov 18, 2014 0:34:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the pictorial ride along, and all the stories. Great thread.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 18, 2014 5:18:36 GMT -5
I cannot wait until a nice hard rain to go back to Cartersville for that big football looking piece if it's still there. Not sure how far down it went but it was a pretty good size! Only had little rock hammers and a smaller shovel. Ground was way too hard. I was not sure if that chunk was at Cartersville. It sure looked like it. That clay is like concrete. The middle of the rough road is where the deepest grading was done and has some of the prettiest jasper. Extraction is difficult. Maybe you can find a wrecking bar about 5 feet long. It is very persuasive Jimi. You can bring a section of water pipe to extend it. The hard clay fears this device
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Post by jamesp on Nov 18, 2014 5:48:54 GMT -5
That Cartersville jasper comes in nodules from 1 inch to several feet. Most ugly on the outside and pretty in the center. An 8 pound sledge can break them into pieces. They seem to have cubic fracture lines. The bigger the nodule the bigger the cubes. The bigger cubes in turn are often with less fractures. So the big nodules are desirable to break down. Please wear protection from fragments. Lay a blanket/carpet over the chunk when using sledge. The 411 bridge gives access to river on SE corner. It is a party spot and kayak launch. Great spot to collect in summer. That purple looking piece is a large nodule that the bulldozer broke the top off of. Heavy equipment can do the work for you if you find construction in the area. That jasper has to be tumbled together. It must be Mohs 6-6.5. It does not polish well with hard agates. That jasper runs for many miles in that area. Seems the deeper it is dug from the prettier. I have not explored the river much for pretty jasper, guessing that it will have material from deeper source. May need a kayak. Ancient fish weir, Etowah River
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Post by fantastic5 on Nov 18, 2014 8:32:06 GMT -5
I cannot wait until a nice hard rain to go back to Cartersville for that big football looking piece if it's still there. Not sure how far down it went but it was a pretty good size! Only had little rock hammers and a smaller shovel. Ground was way too hard. I was not sure if that chunk was at Cartersville. It sure looked like it. That clay is like concrete. The middle of the rough road is where the deepest grading was done and has some of the prettiest jasper. Extraction is difficult. Maybe you can find a wrecking bar about 5 feet long. It is very persuasive Jimi. You can bring a section of water pipe to extend it. The hard clay fears this device My breaker bar is about that size and was very proud of it until I saw kap 's and munchie . I actually felt a tinge of envy at the size of his, that is until I tried to use it. There is a video of me someplace trying to roll a boulder using that thing. Looked more like an uncoordinated pole dance
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Post by jamesp on Nov 18, 2014 9:41:18 GMT -5
I was not sure if that chunk was at Cartersville. It sure looked like it. That clay is like concrete. The middle of the rough road is where the deepest grading was done and has some of the prettiest jasper. Extraction is difficult. Maybe you can find a wrecking bar about 5 feet long. It is very persuasive Jimi. You can bring a section of water pipe to extend it. The hard clay fears this device My breaker bar is about that size and was very proud of it until I saw kap 's and munchie . I actually felt a tinge of envy at the size of his, that is until I tried to use it. There is a video of me someplace trying to roll a boulder using that thing. Looked more like an uncoordinated pole dance The pole dance would get more attention Ann. Ready anytime you are Keith and Mark are clay men, noticed their jimmy bars right off. Me and a buddy put a pipe on one of those hardened pry bars and bent it trying to get a 20 pound coral out of the clay. Never could bend that rascal back, it would flip when reversing pressure was applied. I think we dislocated our shoulders trying, paralyzed by laughing. They work well as an under water hammer too. like in 3-4 feet of water, using the chisel end and the bar like post hole diggers. Nothing easy about that heavy thing.
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Post by kap on Nov 18, 2014 18:33:35 GMT -5
What did I miss the pole dance!!!!!!! I use the big bars a lot but they will wear you out using then like a hammer especially when using them over shoulder high! James I have one that is bent also Mark and I was rolling a boulder at Graves Mtn. and bent it we could not get it straitened back ether and like you said when it flips it will whup you!!
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Post by jamesp on Nov 18, 2014 20:56:45 GMT -5
What did I miss the pole dance!!!!!!! I use the big bars a lot but they will wear you out using then like a hammer especially when using them over shoulder high! James I have one that is bent also Mark and I was rolling a boulder at Graves Mtn. and bent it we could not get it straitened back ether and like you said when it flips it will whup you!! I believe a big vice may be required on that job. It flipped on us twice and put us on the ground.
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Post by broseph82 on Nov 19, 2014 12:45:54 GMT -5
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Post by broseph82 on Nov 21, 2014 15:30:30 GMT -5
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 21, 2014 15:51:52 GMT -5
Excellent photos and story---Thank you for sharing that...Thumbs up
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 21, 2014 15:53:26 GMT -5
Still trying to figure out how they knapped those micro miniatures with out magnification. Like #3.5 reading glasses for a start I bet their eye sight was A OK!!!! I bet their skin was tough as nails too..........Beautiful points James..Thumbs up
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Post by fantastic5 on Nov 21, 2014 16:52:41 GMT -5
That last picture is really cool. I can imagine a thick mud that had a rock dropped in.
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Post by pghram on Nov 26, 2014 23:34:08 GMT -5
Nice jasper.
Rich
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