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Post by HankRocks on Apr 25, 2018 15:05:08 GMT -5
Went back today to pick through 4 large totes of rock that the seller had said I could take. Filled 5 buckets of all sorts of stuff, tumble material, a few cut geodes, Brazilian agate, and some larger Rio looking rock. Then went in I emptied an old grit cabinet he had and had told me to take, maybe 10 lbs of various silicon Carbide and 5 pounds of different polishes that I will need to identify and get into better containers. As I was doing it he pointed at 3 trays under a workbench and a metal pail with split geodes. The trays had about 70 pounds of Brazilian Agate and more geodes over half of which were already cut.
Ended up with about 500 lbs, 140 lbs Brazilian Agate, 140 lbs tumble material, 80 lbs of geodes, 100 lbs of slabbing material and about 50 lbs of large petrified wood He told me that the Brazilian was old as he had it for 20 years and bought it from another guy who had it for 20 plus years.
Will post pictures tomorrow as I get it all washed, sorted and put away. Will have several questions for the group about some of the polish and a couple of other things I picked up. Daddy needs a shower and a beer(maybe two)
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saxplayer
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by saxplayer on Apr 25, 2018 16:34:45 GMT -5
Wow!!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Apr 25, 2018 21:21:43 GMT -5
What a deal! Sounds like you scored big time. Looking forward to the pictures. Your son looks just like you!
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Apr 28, 2018 20:05:12 GMT -5
Waiting for them photos, super score.
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 29, 2018 11:01:08 GMT -5
Ok, Picture adventure time. Here's a sampling of the rocks I got with the 24 inch Saw, seller didn't want them and he was moving out of country. Already sliced geodes(coconuts), I counted 76 halves of which 42 paired up. Almost no hollows. There were another 70 uncut; DSC_0198 by Findrocks, on Flickr Brazilian halves, these have lots of color and should polish nicely; DSC_0200 by Findrocks, on Flickr Uncut Brazilian nodules, again lots of nice banding showing on these about 2 1/2 buckets of these. Look to be from old stock; DSC_0201 by Findrocks, on Flickr Really like this white skin(yellow skin?) Brazilian, very rich colors and can't wait to start cutting this one; DSC_0204 by Findrocks, on Flickr A bucket of large tumble size Texas Wood, there was also a bucket of larger cutting size wood and a bucket of misc cutting agate; DSC_0207 by Findrocks, on Flickr Not sure what this is, light green and have the 3 pound piece it was cut off of; DSC_0210 by Findrocks, on Flickr Is this Tiffany Stone? it is nice; DSC_0213 by Findrocks, on Flickr
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lookatthat
Cave Dweller
Whatever there is to be found.
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Post by lookatthat on Apr 29, 2018 12:35:18 GMT -5
Could light green be chrysophase? (pardon speklling, I am tired) What fun you will have with your goodies! Great buy!
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Post by parfive on Apr 29, 2018 14:08:53 GMT -5
Not bad . . . looks like you bought about twelve hundred bucks worth o’ rocks and got a free saw. : )
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 30, 2018 12:49:24 GMT -5
Forgot two pictures.... A small tub of what look to be Rio's or their close cousins; DSC_0215 by Findrocks, on Flickr I also bought a set of 12 U.S. Standard Sieves, various screen sizes, 5 inch diameter Stainless Steel. To sweeten the deal the seller threw in this nice Dogtooth Calcite specimen; DSC_0214 by Findrocks, on Flickr
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