rockhoundoz
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Post by rockhoundoz on Feb 10, 2024 11:06:30 GMT -5
I'd like to buy a bag of cutting rough also please.
Glad to catch this 👍
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 19, 2023 23:07:34 GMT -5
Beautiful! We don't see enough Kentucky agates.
rockhoundoz Is your family Lithuanian? My best friend lived in Vilnius. She has since moved to a small estate by the sea. I can't remember the town. It is definitely rare stuff! Yes, my dad is Lithuanian 🇱🇹😁. On my mom's side however, I'm the 9th traceable generation on the very same land where I live in KY 💙. By the sea in LT? Maybe Palanga? That's the super charming seaside town. Klaipeda is a city \small city - even Vilnius which I love has a "large village" vibe. Then there's Kursiu Nerija (ugh, it's killing me I can't figure out how to get the right characters! Pixel 7 from Samsung feeling like a big downgrade 😂) - which is the long "spit", like a barrier island, it's so gorgeous! Nida & Juodkrante are the two towns on K.N. & if she lived there I'd be exceedingly jealous; ). Did you ever visit\think of visiting her there? Highly recommend it! *Edit - just realized I could've been copying & pasting the characters 🙄, swear I'm not really from my generation 🙃...
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 19, 2023 22:54:32 GMT -5
Delighted that you find them so intriguing: ) There's not many places in the world with agates of such diversity in such a small area - from Ploczki in Poland's another even moreso That last one in particular captures me, but I'm real partial to the dark gray & black scales. That pattern reminiscent of turtleback, is the result of super tight botyroidal crystals as found in the geodes, such that you've got a very narrow band to cut, and get a flat face - without reducing the pattern to a tiny size. The slab right before the sweet spot: It's unfortunate that tapatalk reduced the free acct photo size, it does take away even more from my already "rustic" photo results 😅 When I look at cut rocks, my first instinct is to look for cabs within the cut face as I'm not really into specimens (except Fairburns! LOL). However, that botryoidal goodness SO deserves a place on a shelf...with a spotlight or two shining right on it!! Wowzers, that's gorgeous!!! You made me look up Płóczki Górne Agates! OMG! The Ploczki agates are just impossibly excellent, personally I think they exceed the sum total of agates from Mexico 😋 - but I'm sure most ppl would disagree lol. Can't figure out how to get the right characters on my new phone but if I remember correctly Gorne means 'upper', so there's an upper & lower Ploczki. Tiny sweet village. Also, the way to pronounce it is like "poolch-key" more or less. That L with the line is kinda a soft "w" sound almost. There are a lot of areas with abundant agates in Poland - but I was barely able to find a couple low grade ones at ploczki myself, but doubt we found the right field. Do miss Poland. Frankly, I'd be happy to send you that thick slab of botyroidal if you send me something in exchange. Maybe one of your great wraps I'm seeing? Or a slab, I'm open & would just enjoy getting something different.
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 22:25:19 GMT -5
I like the Kentucky Ocean Jasper 😉. Very nice! Cool, yah that one was almost completely encased in a big block of matrix, & pretty rare as being completely fracture - free , since most of em are moderately to highly fractured... But the shell\rind of that one, was guessing it'd be a cream yellow banded type & so the orbs were a pleasant surprise : ) The back\rind of that half pictured:
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 22:15:50 GMT -5
Delighted that you find them so intriguing: ) There's not many places in the world with agates of such diversity in such a small area - from Ploczki in Poland's another even moreso That last one in particular captures me, but I'm real partial to the dark gray & black scales. That pattern reminiscent of turtleback, is the result of super tight botyroidal crystals as found in the geodes, such that you've got a very narrow band to cut, and get a flat face - without reducing the pattern to a tiny size. The slab right before the sweet spot: It's unfortunate that tapatalk reduced the free acct photo size, it does take away even more from my already "rustic" photo results 😅
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 18:08:13 GMT -5
Thanks Jasoninsd, have you ever tried your luck at hunting any? No I haven't. It would be too big of a commute for me! *I do "try" to find Fairburns out here...but the operative word there is try! LOL Heh, I'll commute almost any distance for a chance to find good rocks 😋 I hear ya, from my experiences, fairburns & ky's are about on similar par for rarity - at least the good ones.
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 18:01:06 GMT -5
Being a native Kentuckian, where in the state did you hound all of those? I'm in the northern Ky. area and all we seem to find is clay, sandstone, and shale. Love to know what part of the state you go rock hounding. Jim You wanna be in the knobs. Problem is finding good places to hunt- all public land in KY is forbidden for removing rocks, including the national forest & state lands, so you really gotta knock & talk \ ask permission to get into any real good areas. Also, beyond finding a spot, the main challenge is learning to ID the good ones in the field - or at least the ones that have a shot at being good. If you try & break em in the field they usually just shatter. The competition has gotten so fierce though, ppl just removing all the nodules wholesale, so even with decades of experience yr lucky to walk away with one good one after getting way back into the woods.
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 17:58:56 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing the pics! I'm a fan of Kentucky Agates...and you've showed some real beauties!! Thanks Jasoninsd, have you ever tried your luck at hunting any?
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 17:55:02 GMT -5
Had to look up pics, but that's true! Have you tried those before? The nice, whole nodule eye pattern chert seems more rare than the agates IME, really like 'em Yeah preserved duck eggs are quite popular Chinese food. The nodules in your picture actually look a lot like the preserved duck eggs in the making: Your collections of Kentucky agates/cherts look amazing. Please keep cutting them and sharing the pictures with us. So cool! The resemblance is strong enough, making me think about all those museum displays with rocks cut to look like food : ). Just a little bit o real easy carving on the chert & it'd be even more striking. Remembering now that I have had 'younger' salted eggs before & really enjoyed those, would be fun to try them after the full process. Still have a slab or 2, plus the full half nod., Any museum collectors wanna make an offer just msg me 😉- half nod. front & back here: Also for convenience sake, a few pics from google of the preserved eggs: & Thanks for the kind words of encouragement 🙏!
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 12:58:19 GMT -5
It's always nice seeing some Kentucky's. The color in them just stands out The great colors, range of colors, & the fact you've got no idea what's inside til you cut on half of em, keeps it real fun! Sometimes you'd have to look carefully to tell the difference from a rough KY to a potato 🤔:
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 12:54:28 GMT -5
These are wonderful. The bullseye chert really reminds me of preserved duck egg. Had to look up pics, but that's true! Have you tried those before? In Lithuanian culture we eat a lot of fermented foods too, though known for a different type of preserved eggs this time o year ; ) (this pic taken off google*) The nice, whole nodule eye pattern chert seems more rare than the agates IME, really like 'em
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 11:27:41 GMT -5
Few more non KY agate hehe- Graveyard point cut thick & 'lengthwise', tend to like it better that way myself. Got that piece years back on a trip where my truck got two flat tires same night lol: Piece of 'colla that I cut as a small gift, think I actually bought that rough off a member here 👍: Old marble found in my yard! Probably was my grandfather's ir one of his siblings, maybe akro peach swirl?: Aaaand actually one more KY piece, fossil stone off a friend's property, I like how the oolites filled up the brachiopod casts :-) (although it does also kinda make me think bout microplastics) :
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Post by rockhoundoz on Mar 17, 2023 11:18:55 GMT -5
Surprised how long it's been since I made any posts 'round here! Actually, last time I logged in, saw that I had apparently 'followed' 2 different members here (one of who I'd never even seen here before) which I 100% did not do, kinda weirded me out but I'm over it now 😋. Some recent KY material finds: That piece actually looked more promising before being cut. Still not bad, but pattern didn't 'open up' as I was hoping : Kind of a messy one, but I like it b\c the calcite is very solid & has a rich golden color: This is a rare one with some red left over found far away from the classic agate zone: Some of my favorite type of bullseye chert: This is a fairly abundant agate type here, reminds me of material from another state - anyone else think so too? : KY OJ 😉: With those pink & golden hued in this last pic, would almost think it was colored by gold if I didn't know better 🙃. The golden parts even have a metallic sheen. Could that still be considered turtleback agate in the center, even though it's translucent rather than transparent - & lacks the almost iris-esque effect?
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Post by rockhoundoz on Nov 8, 2021 9:36:41 GMT -5
I agree that it's not Kentucky agate. But it reminds me a lot of horse creek chert out of the Tennessee/ Alabama area Ft Payne Formation. Beautiful stone though & really liking your wrapping as well .
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Post by rockhoundoz on Sept 13, 2021 11:32:05 GMT -5
Hello all, figured it wouldn't hurt to post this here.
I've been in the market for a large saw for several years now, as my pile of 7" & larger rough grows in size. Currently, I just have a 12" lortone.
20" is really the smallest size I think to be worth it, 22 or 24" even better.
I'd consider anything that is in roughly working condition, could do cleaning, motor/blade install & whatnot, but wouldn't want anything that's not in working condition. Brand new saws are just outta my budget.
I live in Kentucky & would travel just about anywhere to pick up the right saw. Although of course the closer the better.
Thanks for any leads in advance!
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Post by rockhoundoz on Aug 10, 2021 12:39:28 GMT -5
Those are some awesome specimens. Thanks, & yes, even though living in rural KY mostly has it hardships, the rocks are definitely an enjoyable silver-lining. Also, re. living near good rockhounding sites, I don't know where you live, but you might be surprised how many interesting things are available near most locations. After I moved back to KY from Washington state for 3 years, I lamented the boring rockhounding here, until after a few years, finally discovered our little pockets of cool stuff.
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Post by rockhoundoz on Aug 10, 2021 12:17:05 GMT -5
rockhoundoz, I think sea sponges can be petrified? I'm really not super sure but it kind of looked like one. Yah, I also google-sesrched it after your sponge suggestion, & like you, discovered that sponges can be fossilized, & also then remembered that several years ago, I'd already identified another type of local fossil as sponges: JasoninSD: Thanks! I also really love this one, because although it's a pretty common fossil type in areas where I hunt, I've never seen another one that has such nice fortifications around each pocket/tube/"pore" so to speak :-). Here are some more pics of other sides, showing the tubes/ pores - fwiw, being totally uneducated on the subject, I'm guessing these tube-like structures are called pores, given that the sponges are called Porifera: And then a pic of a small group of other fossils of the same type, for variety: Those two specimens at upper left show the structure a little better, I think, & unlike the others, are not agatized, but replaced with some softer material: & some nice colors from other agatized ones :-) : & finally, another one, which I also had assumed was coral, but now wondering if this isn't also a sponge (of some other type) : Detail: To Quartz: unfortunately, on that 1st fossil, since I was trying to get a smooth slab from as close to that colorful skin surface as possible, I completely annihilated that surface 😬. Non of the other surfaces had those nice pink colors. I've learned from past similar Kentucky material of that locale, that the best colors are usually closest to the skin. I'm guessing that's from iron & other minerals staining the outer layers over the millenia. Marmamook: Interesting thought, so you think that the 'tubes' would be parallel to the sea-floor, so horizontal rather than vertically oriented? I was assuming they would be vertical, but I don't know anything about sponges 😋
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Post by rockhoundoz on Aug 7, 2021 14:41:19 GMT -5
rockhoundoz, I am willing to agree with you on the sea animal identification. I am guessing it's a sea sponge or coral. Thanks for that perkins17 👍. I had not considered the possibility of fossilized sponges. Most of our silicified rocks out here are some type of coral or bryozoan, as well as mollusks.
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Post by rockhoundoz on Aug 7, 2021 14:01:37 GMT -5
Hello & good summer wishes fellow rockers 😁 Found this rock a few months ago, thinking it was the common 'moss agate' type around here, which I believe to be some type of coral or other sea-life fossil. But then after cleaning & cutting, it kinda reminded me of agatized palm root fossils that I've seen. Any ideas? Possibly palm root? Just another agatized chert sea-creature? I'm usually wrong when I have hopes of finding interesting fossils, lol, somehow I can't seem to grasp the idea of cellular structure in a rock 🙃. Also, think it's one of the very few rocks that I kind of wish I hadn't cut- the outer skin was more colorful than the interior... Outer skin pic: Cut surface, & then zoomed in a bit on a more colorful area: &I never know whether this type of thread is better in the fossil forum, or the ID forum...
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Post by rockhoundoz on Feb 13, 2021 17:02:47 GMT -5
What a varied array of cool finds! The mastodon tooth has such a beautiful texture & dark color, especially striking on the top surface, onyx-like 👍.
Horse leg bone/phalanx also stands out as super interesting! Would be cool to find some fossilized 'knuckle'/talus bones!
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