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Post by accidentalrockhound on Sept 8, 2019 22:29:44 GMT -5
I felt this one waiting for me. Took my wife to Taos for Labor Day weekend. While there I seen a shop called “gems and minerals llc. “ found this hiding in a far corner. It was priced but not labeled. Any ideals?
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 8, 2019 22:44:59 GMT -5
Looks like shrinkwood of some type. Real pretty!
You have the knack for finding the special stuff.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Sept 8, 2019 22:54:17 GMT -5
Looks like shrinkwood of some type. Real pretty! You have the knack for finding the special stuff. Thank you, my first impression in the shop was jasper, a friend of mine said maybe wood. nice size chunk by feel I’m thinking 8-10lbs. some time I think the stuff finds me. Kinda weird.
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Post by MsAli on Sept 9, 2019 13:02:27 GMT -5
Looks like shrinkwood of some type. Real pretty! You have the knack for finding the special stuff. Thank you, my first impression in the shop was jasper, a friend of mine said maybe wood. nice size chunk by feel I’m thinking 8-10lbs. some time I think the stuff finds me. Kinda weird. Serendipity! Its beautiful whatever it is
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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 9, 2019 14:12:25 GMT -5
I've seen and had a lot of this that was called Tabu-Tabu or forest fire jasper (not sure if that last one is right). It's from Africa.
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Post by captbob on Sept 10, 2019 10:23:11 GMT -5
Shrinkwood may be a really good guess. But I've never seen a 8 to 10 pound chunk of that before. Where is Mel Sabre52 ?? Gonna have to disagree with tabu tabu A few more pictures from other angles and not just the face sure would help.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 11:20:50 GMT -5
Reminded me of the silicified/jasperized brecciated rhyolite that can form the walls of seams for old Carey Plume, Robinson Ranch, Eagle Rock and other agates from the area around Prineville in Oregon. All three were once found in sometimes large pieces and were distributed widely among rock shops and collectors back in the day. FWIW, here is a piece of Carey (mostly red plumes) just as an example. Don't have a piece at hand of any of those that shows mostly rhyolite. Robinson has mostly black plumes and Eagle Rock a mix of colors. These wouldn't be the only sites, though. I don't see any plume in yours, but that'd depend on which direction it was sliced and where (not every slice shows plume). Eagle Rock with the layered rhyolite (rhyolitic mud flow?) matrix, piece was cut across the botryoidal top (thus no plumes in this slice). Color of the rhyolite can vary quite a bit...
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Post by Tommy on Sept 10, 2019 11:24:58 GMT -5
My first thought was tabu tabu also - the red to pink transition with white agate are distinctive and look dead-on Tabu ... but the tabu that I've seen and had has more randomly dispersed breccia. The almost banded alignment near the bottom of the first photo does look like shrinkwood. Some Tabu Tabu I had recently:
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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 10, 2019 12:36:12 GMT -5
My first thought was tabu tabu also - the red to pink transition with white agate are distinctive and look dead-on Tabu ... but the tabu that I've seen and had has more randomly dispersed breccia. The almost banded alignment near the bottom of the first photo does look like shrinkwood. Some Tabu Tabu I had recently: I have seen them both. The slab posted is brecciated, too.
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Post by Tommy on Sept 10, 2019 13:08:13 GMT -5
I have seen them both. The slab posted is brecciated, too. I agree. The more I look at it the more I think it IS tabu.
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Post by fernwood on Sept 10, 2019 13:28:02 GMT -5
This reminds me of a piece of pet wood I recently purchased and posted here for ID. Mine is not lapidary quality and a specimen. If it would have just been a slice, I would have thought breccia jasper. The outer appearance said wood. A lot of the outer areas are opalized on this piece.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 10, 2019 16:53:23 GMT -5
Shrinkwood may be a really good guess. But I've never seen a 8 to 10 pound chunk of that before. Where is Mel Sabre52 ?? Gonna have to disagree with tabu tabu A few more pictures from other angles and not just the face sure would help.
Bob, you've probably not seen any large chunks, only slabs. Am I right? I know I have only seen slabs. I also disagree with tabu tabu.
Yes, it does look brecciated, like tabu tabu, but it also looks like wood. That's my final answer...
I will go with Mel's opinion!
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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 10, 2019 18:10:42 GMT -5
I've bought several identical slabs called Tabu Tabu
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Post by Tommy on Sept 11, 2019 11:28:44 GMT -5
The pink with red IS very distinctive. I've got a note in to a friend who is very experienced with Texas shrinkwood to get his opinion on it so I'll post what he thinks if he response on it. Here's a cab from a slab I purchased as Tabu Tabu a few years back. Not as much agate but it has that distinctive pink/red combo.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 11, 2019 12:39:11 GMT -5
The pink with red IS very distinctive. I've got a note in to a friend who is very experienced with Texas shrinkwood to get his opinion on it so I'll post what he thinks if he response on it. Here's a cab from a slab I purchased as Tabu Tabu a few years back. Not as much agate but it has that distinctive pink/red combo. Looking forward to hear what your experienced shrinkwood friend has to say. Thanks, Tommy.
I did some forum searching, there was a post by Maryann (and Ralph, stonesthatrock ) way back in 2011, some cabs that he had done. Ralph's newest........ pic. heavy Check out the last two pics in her first post in the thread. She said a friend had picked it up (Bought it? Found it?) in TX. I was sure Mel Sabre52 would have said shrinkwood, but he goes the other way:
OK my favorites are the black crazy lace and the flame agate but all are great. That last red jasper is Tabu tabu jasper from south Africa....Mel Here is another post about shrinkwood from 2015: What is shrinkwood??? And here's one more Is this shrinkwood? Unfortunately that one has some missing photos, but it still has information. Looks like PB is having some issue right now. Photos by various people are blurry. Hope that is a technical problem, not something they are doing on purpose??
Jeremy txrockhunter had a post about rocks from George West, TX. Many woods and shrinkwoods. A bunch of eye candy! George West, TX - Small Cuts
And equal time for the Tabu Tabu- Posted by <'))))>< Fish tabu tabu slab
Well, maybe not equal. Had a couple more threads to post, but no pics in them.
ETA - Re, PB issue. That's strange. The older PB images are only blurry on my HP desktop, but not on my phone .
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Post by fernwood on Sept 12, 2019 3:35:18 GMT -5
The PB photos were blurry on my laptop. I like Shrinkwood. That and the Tabu Tabu do look a lot alike at times.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Sept 12, 2019 17:23:40 GMT -5
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Post by NRG on Sept 13, 2019 22:38:21 GMT -5
Here are a couple pics of a block that I have that was identified as Tabu-Tabu, looks similar, not as much red but has that herring bone look. Tim your bottom pic shows breccia with the striping and the fade to pink, just like the OP example. I'm sold It's Tabu or a very Tabu-like example
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Post by Tommy on Sept 14, 2019 13:54:12 GMT -5
Looking forward to hear what your experienced shrinkwood friend has to say. He has not chimed in but I did post the photos on his shrinkwood Facebook group and most are is saying Tabu (or its nearby cousin Painted Valley per roy ).
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