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Post by Mark K on Sept 30, 2017 12:56:02 GMT -5
I have buckets of that stuff. I need to run a batch or two I think.
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Post by Mark K on Sept 22, 2017 14:12:50 GMT -5
I paid $200 for one recently. I'm 60 miles north. I would gladly pay that for one.
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Post by Mark K on Sept 16, 2017 20:56:52 GMT -5
I have been banning them on the other lapidary site.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 31, 2017 23:53:25 GMT -5
Is that the stuff I sent from the benefit auction? IF so it is rhyolite from Q.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 29, 2017 17:55:23 GMT -5
I pull those concretions apart and keep the ammos and toss the rest.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 17, 2017 23:43:40 GMT -5
I love the Bearpaw Shale. I gave a really nice Bearpaw ammonite to the Butte Museum.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 16, 2017 16:24:38 GMT -5
captbob, gotta respect a woman digging in the dirt wearing rubber boots! @shotgunner you know you can't resist jeannie in rubber boots! Mark K... omg'sh did you see all that poison ivy??!!! I'm highly allergic and so is my husband so I put on long sleeve, pants and gloves and went to work cleaning a lot of it out! I showered immediately and wiped down with diluted bleach water. I have sprayed it twice and heavy rains after 😂😂 hoping to get a brake in the rain so I can spray again and put down the weed barrier. Now I have a new rock garden! When you spray it, put some dish soap in with it. The soap helps it to cling to the leaves and helps to break down the waxy coating that protects the leaves.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 15, 2017 20:33:22 GMT -5
My guess is that Scott is thinking sphere.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 15, 2017 20:28:43 GMT -5
You should spray that poison ivy.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 14, 2017 21:31:00 GMT -5
I am referring to the spot on the aerial photo.
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Post by Mark K on Aug 14, 2017 17:47:04 GMT -5
Looks like private property to me
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Q 2018
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Post by Mark K on Jul 31, 2017 15:32:09 GMT -5
So when is the get together in Q this year?
I am thinking about it, but might go a week later to avoid blizzards like last year.
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Post by Mark K on Jul 21, 2017 12:39:21 GMT -5
I'll get a pic today if possible... Please do , these guys can be brutal . In a few weeks once she gets to know us, we will have her trained to be as bad as we are. We may be assholes, but we are assholes who care.
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Post by Mark K on Jul 19, 2017 19:19:29 GMT -5
Trying to identify a rock without pics is like trying to to smell the color nine.
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Post by Mark K on Jul 15, 2017 19:52:58 GMT -5
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Post by Mark K on Jul 8, 2017 19:46:59 GMT -5
Using a home made thing I call a coin spoon. I took a piece of 1/2 in. re-bar and bent a small bow peep style hook on one end that fits over your hand or jeans pocket, then flattened the other end like a small spatula. You stand your pin pointer on end and find the exact center of the coin and then take the side of the spatula end and push thru the soil until you make contact with the coin and continue across until your completely past the coin. Rotate the point of the spatula 90 degrees and push the end under the coin / target and pry up like removing a nail with a pry bar. The soil opens up like a clam and the target will be sitting on the end of the spatula. A very large screwdriver can be used but it is kind of awkward to carry around and is not as impressive hanging out of your pocket when you are hanging around an older neighborhood when it's getting to be about dark thirty ! If you can score a jumbo screwdriver in a goodwill or other similar store you might grind an edge on one side of the blade for forcing the grass roots apart easier and slightly round the corners so you don't score any of the better targets while pressing down to feel the coin before the turn, press forward and pry up move. The whole thing takes about 12 seconds from the detector signal , pin point, coin spoon moves and pocket the target, then depress raised grass. NO holes to fill in and no unsightly mess in a sensitive area. The only drawback is the getting back up off your grey haired old butt ! After a couple long days of ( curb surfing ) the old knees start to feel the gaff ! After you hit 70 or so, you will find that parking meters and street signs are your best friends ! That is all fine and well for clad, but when you gouge a silver Barber or a Indian, you will wish you used a brass probe.
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Post by Mark K on Jul 7, 2017 5:42:44 GMT -5
At first the kneeling was kicking my butt. Then as I kept doing it, I began to adapt. Now it is not even difficult. I have lost enough weight that my duty belt is about to fall off of my ass. I will have to tighten it pretty soon.
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Post by Mark K on Jul 6, 2017 15:51:52 GMT -5
Or maybe trashure hunting.
I have been metal detecting hard and heavy for about 2-3 weeks. I have almost filled a big yogurt container with coins. Plus lots of trash.
Today I dug up over 100 coins.
High humidity and 90's.
I still am hunting.
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Post by Mark K on Jun 29, 2017 10:11:43 GMT -5
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Post by Mark K on Jun 27, 2017 21:34:52 GMT -5
Here is me holding a chunk of the biggest geode that was probably at RS
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