rockhoundoz
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Post by rockhoundoz on May 11, 2018 17:21:56 GMT -5
Howdy ya'll! Purchased a bunch of rocks, & I'm terrible at ID, since I usually collect my own & therefore know exactly where they're from.. First up is this plume agate, was basically a freebie add-on, much nicer than I expected! California maybe? Got 6 good slabs, all virtually perfect/fracture free except for one small fracture on the edge of one slab. 1. Then 55 lbs of petrified wood. Mostly black, but some has browns & some has nice wood patterns. Maybe not all from same location. 2. 3. 4. 5. Then, mystery agate. This one is mildly blueish/purplish. Doesn't look like African material to me. Banding is white & rather faint. Another freebie. 6. 7. Then, mystery labradorite. Any ideas? Looks to me like it has schorl included. 8. Then, thundereggs. I have very little thunderegg experience. All from same location or maybe not? 9. 10. Only cut the one so far, greener plumes than it looks: & finally, another mystery agate. Texas? Mexico? I'll post more pics soon after cutting it. Not sure of best cutting approach either? Maybe just do the easy thing and clamp it along the flat bottom and cut along the broken face? Or is it worth it to try to cut it at an angle to maximize the height of the seeming sagenite spray at the bottom? 11. Thanks!
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Post by fernwood on May 11, 2018 18:04:08 GMT -5
#8 looks like WI Moonstone to me. toiv0 ?
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Post by rockhoundoz on May 11, 2018 18:23:04 GMT -5
Thanks fernwood, that would be great! I was bummed when I missed the WI moonstone up for sale/auction some time back.
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Post by toiv0 on May 11, 2018 18:25:51 GMT -5
#8 looks like WI Moonstone to me. toiv0 ? Looks like a lot of the WI moonstone I see. The black probably isn't schorl but pyroxenes and amphiboles. I had to look that up as my memory is not so good looking anymore.
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Post by gemfeller on May 11, 2018 18:35:51 GMT -5
The banding in #7 makes me believe your "mystery" stone is Blue Lace Agate from South Africa. It's a seam agate and the structure of the rough pieces looks like it was mined from a seam with some included host rock.
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Post by <'))))>< Fish on May 11, 2018 20:05:24 GMT -5
that first on is Paul Bunyan Plume Agate
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Post by rockhoundoz on May 11, 2018 20:22:15 GMT -5
Thanks Toiv0, I do hope it's WI moonstone! Much cooler to me than some random labradorite. Gemfeller, 'preciate it! I guess African material was the only thing that came to my mind, but it seemed less blue, less banding & no druzy, which differed from the African blue lace I've had. Reckon this piece could just be low quality blue lace from the (really) old continent . & <'))))>< Fish, Paul Bunyan plume sounds good! While looking at google 'red plume agate' images, paul Bunyan & Carey plume were the 2 that seemed most similar. Thanks for the thought!
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 20:57:35 GMT -5
For the thundereggs, the top 3 and the bottom-left all look like Priday area eggs. The cut egg could be Mcdermitt, Priday or ??
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Post by amygdule on May 12, 2018 9:59:50 GMT -5
That purplish one looks more like Holley Blue than Blue Lace to me.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 13:18:41 GMT -5
That purplish one looks more like Holley Blue than Blue Lace to me. That occurred to me, too. I even had a piece of Ellensburg that looked similar (depending on how closely the colors of agate and matrix on my monitor match the real thing).
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Post by rockhoundoz on May 12, 2018 14:41:47 GMT -5
That purplish one looks more like Holley Blue than Blue Lace to me. That occurred to me, too. I even had a piece of Ellensburg that looked similar (depending on how closely the colors of agate and matrix on my monitor match the real thing). Hehe, now we're talking ! Thanks Amygdule & Rocks2dust! I spent many, many days searching around the Ellensburg area for the elusive blue agate while living in Washington state. Found tons of nice rocks, mostly gray/black/white agate, crystal geodes (love-stones as an old local rockhound called them) & also some really nice bluish-greenish seam agate, but never found any E. blue. Only dreamed of holley blue since the location had already been closed. When I saw this piece, these PNW agates did occur to me, but I wrote it off as a fantasy 😅. For one thing though, up until this point, I have only seen domestic material in the collection where these were found. Guess I'll bring that rock out to the PNW on my next trip to have it ID'd. It does look more purple than blue in person. & thanks for the thunderegg id rocks2dust! After cutting a couple more eggs, & finding (what my limited experience considers) the classic Oregon blue-grey waterline agate centers, that seems likely. Started cutting unknown agate from pic #11, here's a couple slabs.. Any ideas?
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Post by rockhoundoz on May 12, 2018 20:11:54 GMT -5
Here's a picture of the piece of pet. wood that I thought was most interesting, & that was small enough to cut. Still in saw, cutting it into two .75" slabs after some deliberation. It was nicer than I anticipated. Rock was also in pictures 2, 4 & 5. It looks fairly similar to AZ wood that I'm seeing online, but very different from the AZ wood I've collected.
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Post by Fossilman on May 13, 2018 9:07:27 GMT -5
For the thundereggs, the top 3 and the bottom-left all look like Priday area eggs. The cut egg could be Mcdermitt, Priday or ?? I was thinking "Lucky Strike" egg on the cut... I see a Richardson Ranch egg in the bunch too (Second one from the left,on top..)...Probably Blue bed or Red bed..
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2018 11:29:02 GMT -5
The white and cream areas look like they might be common opal (do those areas have a waxy feel/luster?). If so, I think eastern Oregon, central Cascades in Oregon or eastern Washington would be more likely than AZ. Looks a lot like pieces of oak from the Prineville area.
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Post by rockhoundoz on May 13, 2018 22:04:08 GMT -5
Rocks2dust, it does look very much like oak in the small patch of grain that's highly visible. Spruce would be about the only other wood looking similar at all. The poor lighting in my picture made the lighter colored zones seem more white or creamy. There are some fine white/opaque inclusions & also similar white 'crust' on the rock, which do feel slightly waxy, but it won't scratch a bit by my hard steel knife & looks chalcedony like. Here's a better picture showing that it looks more transparent & agatized overall: For the thundereggs, the top 3 and the bottom-left all look like Priday area eggs. The cut egg could be Mcdermitt, Priday or ?? I was thinking "Lucky Strike" egg on the cut... I see a Richardson Ranch egg in the bunch too (Second one from the left,on top..)...Probably Blue bed or Red bed.. Fossilman, does the red/blue bed refer to the color of the chalcedony? The 2nd from left top was the one with what I think of as classic star-shaped blueish, T. Egg from OR. The larger egg from picture 9, on the bottom, far right seemed particular interesting & beautiful to me-
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