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Post by accidentalrockhound on Jan 10, 2019 20:43:35 GMT -5
Has anyone seen this material? Said new to Quartzite this year. On the auction site it was described as being found near Freidite UT. By a family that was out rockhounding . Here is a photo from the site. It caught my eye because it looked very similar to some material I picked up. I have not slabbed any of this yet I have two variations of colors. This material is very hard and solid. Nice looking. One more photo. This darker piece is more dense and heavier feeling then the rest.
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lookatthat
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Post by lookatthat on Jan 10, 2019 20:57:30 GMT -5
I don't know about that Freidite thing. It looks awfully similar to a manufactured counter sample I saw once.
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Post by pauls on Jan 11, 2019 0:30:09 GMT -5
My thoughts exactly, here in Aus it's called Terrazo, widely used for floors and walls in public toilets, you wouldn't sell a cab of that here.
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Post by fernwood on Jan 11, 2019 4:25:30 GMT -5
Kind of reminds me of Pudding Stone.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 11, 2019 18:20:14 GMT -5
Pretty conglomerate. Angular pieces look more like a breccia. I always have a hard time differentiating breccia and puddingstone. I tend to think of puddingstone as being a conglomerate with rounded pebbles and a breccia with unrounded broken angular hunks but sometimes they seem to also have examples between the two, We get very similar examples in the Rio grande gravel here in Texas.....Mel
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Jan 12, 2019 17:23:37 GMT -5
Thank you Sabre52. As pauls mentioned terrazzo the piece on eBay was compared to it. I'm not sure how much they found it did not say. Maybe one piece? The material I have came from south Dakota. I need to break down some chunks to cut on my small saw. My 24" needs a blade My saw stopped when I attempted to cut this material. Tried dressing the blade and still no luck getting through it.
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Post by NRG on Jan 12, 2019 21:40:42 GMT -5
Thank you Sabre52. As pauls mentioned terrazzo the piece on eBay was compared to it. I'm not sure how much they found it did not say. Maybe one piece? The material I have came from south Dakota. I need to break down some chunks to cut on my small saw. My 24" needs a blade My saw stopped when I attempted to cut this material. Tried dressing the blade and still no luck getting through it. Fresh oil? check your feed dog
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