booboo
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Post by booboo on Jan 30, 2015 19:37:28 GMT -5
thanks y'all...as for now i'm just looking at 'em and enjoying them knowing I picked them up outta the ground lol I may look for a jeweler later on to make the calibrated uns into earrings...as for the charge its $2.10 per carat and an additional.50 cents per carat for calibrated uns...
joe
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Post by booboo on Jan 30, 2015 18:43:20 GMT -5
so after 5 months of waiting I finally got my sunstones back from Thailand. I sent a small parcel to see what kind of job they do and I gotta say they did a good job...aside from the long wait...they originally told me 6-8 weeks i'm satisfied with the results....I would say the yield was about 25%.....hope y'all like em!
a different angle
whole group
another angle
calibrated ones
biggest un...11.15 carats
another look
thanks for looking
joe
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Post by booboo on Dec 10, 2014 21:09:36 GMT -5
awesome colors! love the black and white contrasts...thanks for sharing!
joe
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Post by booboo on Dec 7, 2014 11:38:06 GMT -5
thanks for sharing your pics! sounds like a cool adventure
joe
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Post by booboo on Nov 8, 2014 11:53:42 GMT -5
Nice Pics!! Thanks for sharing!
joe
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Post by booboo on Oct 27, 2014 23:29:10 GMT -5
thanks all!
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Post by booboo on Oct 26, 2014 23:42:36 GMT -5
really nice patterns! thanks for sharing!
joe
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Post by booboo on Oct 10, 2014 11:12:31 GMT -5
@ nick
im in southern cali
joe
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booboo
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Post by booboo on Oct 9, 2014 23:19:42 GMT -5
thanks all! I think it would be fun if we can get a trip set up...I know the mines open back up in May so i'll mebbe send out something by early next year and see what we all can come up with...Yo Nick!!!...man if you're just a tad closer to me I wouldn't have a prob doing that
joe
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Post by booboo on Oct 9, 2014 19:11:49 GMT -5
Very nice, Joe. Love the sunstones! Crater Lake one of the few places I have visited in Oregon, it's beautiful. Hiked down the switchbacks that give the only access to the lake to do some fishing. That water is COLD. The fish were there, got some hits, but did not catch anything. Then had to climb back up that hill... yes!! the hike back up that hill ain't fun lol
joe
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Post by booboo on Oct 9, 2014 19:10:49 GMT -5
Wow very nice report Joe! Beautiful scenery pictures too! I would love to join you up there some day - we are always searching for new adventures. If I may ask what do you do with the sunstones? thanks Tommy! for now I tumbled the smaller pieces and am keeping the larger crystals until I find someone to cut them for me...I sent some to Thailand several weeks ago and still haven't received them so mebbe someone here in the US is in order...
joe
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Post by booboo on Oct 9, 2014 9:27:15 GMT -5
Hi everyone!
I went back to Plush Oregon last weekend to look for some more sunstones...left on a Thursday and drove all the way to Plush I visited the spectrum mines where I did the belt run and did some freestyle digging at their pit. during the AM hours I walked all around the surrounding area and picked up more sunstones that way. I also visited the Double Eagle mine where I screened from a pile of virgin ore for about 6 hours or so. both crews at these mines were very friendly and goes out of their way to make sure your experience is a good one...I did very well this trip...almost 14 lbs of sunstones total....I picked out the largest crystals from the lot cause they are easier to picked out but still have majority of the crystals to go through...I found lots of shiller from the spectrum mine this trip...I would say 15 to mebbe 20 percent were colored crystals from that mine...on the way back i stopped at crater lake in Klamath falls to relax and take in the views...incredible countryside out there!!! anywho...enjoy the pictures...hopefully someday some fellow rockhounders from this forum will join me on these trips!!!
from the spectrum mine I still have to go thru these almost 10 lbs to go
best ones I've sorted so far..almost 1400 cts
largest crystal from spectrum mines
5 of the largest crystals from spectrum
from the double eagle...almost 3 lbs
largest crystals from the trip was from the double eagle...the mine owner appraised it to cut into a 10-15 carat stone if I have it faceted
largest shiller from the spectrum mine
the following pictures are of crater lake..aside from rockhounding the other hobby I have is photography...
view of mt Shasta
that's all folks! thank you for looking...
joe
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Post by booboo on Oct 4, 2014 23:00:41 GMT -5
the speckled greens are probably serpentines.. we get a lot of them here and they have a characteristic "greenish- lumpy- barely- under- the- surface" look to a lot of them. Not usually super hard. If it is super hard then suspect a serpentinite... mix of serpentine and something harder, olivine or silicate maybe. thanks Snowmom!
joe
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Post by booboo on Oct 1, 2014 0:39:15 GMT -5
hi cariha!
welcome to the forum! what Pat said is so true...It all depends on what you want to do with the rocks...the best thing about it is whatever you decide to do this forum will have some experts ready to help you out...you wanna tumble 'em there's some very useful tutorials around...you wanna learn how to carve or make cabs there's some very skilled artisans around here that can lend a hand as well... if you need help to ID some of what you had collected there's Mel the thing I like the most about the forum is that most people around here will be more than happy to help when you ask ...really good peeps around hyeah!
I'm a newbie meself and learning quite a few things...
joe
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Post by booboo on Sept 30, 2014 21:23:44 GMT -5
Liking the petwood for sure...Liking the greens to,my fav. color on any rock..Yes sir Mel will ID for ya'.... thanks Fossilman!! yep the greens definitely intrigue me...hopefully someone can shed some light of what they are..
joe
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Post by booboo on Sept 29, 2014 0:58:57 GMT -5
Hi All,
While on my way to go hiking in Idyllwild I stopped at a rock sale and picked up a few specimens...some are easy to id but a few I'm not too sure...total haul around 12 lbs or so...paid around $25 for the whole lot...best I can gather these are from around the ca/az/nv area..any id help will be greatly appreciated...Lots of pics...enjoy
1st set opal wood
set #2
a really cool rock...ID??
set #3
some jade...I did the hammer test and they all sing falsetto
set #4
I picked these up to tumble...green speckled rocks...ID?
close up
dendrites on 'em???
set #5...vivid green on this un...ID?
set #6...my favorite un....lots of colors...ID?
same rock..different angle
Thanks for looking!!!!
joe
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Post by booboo on Sept 28, 2014 17:34:43 GMT -5
wawawiwa!!!! nice!!!
joe
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Post by booboo on Sept 28, 2014 9:36:14 GMT -5
love fire agates...nice 'uns!!
joe
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Post by booboo on Sept 27, 2014 11:46:14 GMT -5
very cool! nice work!
joe
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Post by booboo on Sept 27, 2014 0:38:43 GMT -5
awesome pics! love the snowflakes thanks for sharing 'em
joe
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