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Post by victor1941 on Jan 26, 2024 11:25:14 GMT -5
I think he is near Canyon Lake.
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Post by velodromed on Jan 26, 2024 11:29:17 GMT -5
I think he is near Canyon Lake. Sweet, I’m only bout 20 min from there. Thanks! |
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Post by rmf on Jan 26, 2024 19:48:16 GMT -5
velodromed Not sure if it is Golden Wood or not but it is Golden and it is wood so great find. I am not familiar with Golden wood either but I will check out riverbend lapidary so thanks!
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rydersrocks
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Post by rydersrocks on Jan 27, 2024 17:50:14 GMT -5
Nice! Those look amazing! Really really nice finds.
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Post by rydersrocks on Jan 27, 2024 17:50:59 GMT -5
It almost resembles a Botswana, nice find! I thought they were Botswana agate! Wow! |
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Post by velodromed on Jan 27, 2024 22:04:50 GMT -5
It almost resembles a Botswana, nice find! I thought they were Botswana agate! Wow! it was pretty crazy finding those here in Texas. But there are good agates here. Just hard to find in my area. Both r hose tumbled nicely and are somewhere in my collection now. Somewhere… |
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rydersrocks
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Post by rydersrocks on Jan 28, 2024 1:30:43 GMT -5
I thought they were Botswana agate! Wow! it was pretty crazy finding those here in Texas. But there are good agates here. Just hard to find in my area. Both r hose tumbled nicely and are somewhere in my collection now. Somewhere… Even more surprising you found them in texas! I live literally on the edge of New Mexico and Texas, so I have a lot of rock hounding options. Only gone to New Mexico to rockhound. Usually Deming since it is only 100 miles away. Based on what I thought, Texas had kind of bland agates. I was completely wrong! You should try New Mexico sometime! There's a lot of coll stuff over here as well! |
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Post by velodromed on Jan 28, 2024 8:26:09 GMT -5
it was pretty crazy finding those here in Texas. But there are good agates here. Just hard to find in my area. Both r hose tumbled nicely and are somewhere in my collection now. Somewhere… Even more surprising you found them in texas! I live literally on the edge of New Mexico and Texas, so I have a lot of rock hounding options. Only gone to New Mexico to rockhound. Usually Deming since it is only 100 miles away. Based on what I thought, Texas had kind of bland agates. I was completely wrong! You should try New Mexico sometime! There's a lot of coll stuff over here as well! Actually, if you Google some of the West Texas agate on ranches, unfortunately currently closed to Rock hounding, you’ll see Texas has some amazing agates including Moss, Plum etc. I’ve heard New Mexico has good rock. Maybe someday… |
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Post by velodromed on Feb 3, 2024 22:03:23 GMT -5
Here’s another chunk (3 total) of that Texas moss agate that we found early last year. This is by far one of my favorite rocks. It’s been tumbling about 6 months in course and is nearly ready to move on.   |
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Post by dillonf on Feb 4, 2024 8:47:08 GMT -5
Very nice specimen!
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Post by ThomasT on Feb 4, 2024 12:09:03 GMT -5
Outstanding piece there.
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Post by whyofquartz on Feb 5, 2024 13:43:51 GMT -5
Friend, I am afear'd I have had a very different experience rockhounding around SA. I work in China Grove and live in Frio County and have found no shortage of cool rocks around town and the area.
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Post by velodromed on Feb 7, 2024 19:38:54 GMT -5
One of my favorite pet wood finds lately. We’ve had a lot of storms this winter that have uncovered some nice rocks in the creeks around our parks. This one is so interesting to me.   |
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Post by hplcman on Feb 8, 2024 11:15:56 GMT -5
That pet wood is excellent! Very dramatic! I love rock hounding after storms or heavy rain. It's like a whole new World out there.
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Post by velodromed on Feb 8, 2024 11:24:17 GMT -5
That pet wood is excellent! Very dramatic! I love rock hounding after storms or heavy rain. It's like a whole new World out there. Very true! It’s even better if it’s still lightly raining. The rock world looks so much better. We’ll see amazing rocks we’d walked past many times before. So whenever it rains, if possible Belle (‘The Kid’, my 10 year old step daughter) and I hit our favorite spots. |
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Post by velodromed on Feb 9, 2024 23:59:05 GMT -5
A month ago or so I threw a bunch of rocks that we had found in the rebel 17 , mainly to clean off the outer coating of calcite, lime or whatever it is so we could see if there was anything good underneath. I don’t know if these were two similar rocks or one that broke, but after four or five weeks of course tumbling, I was happily surprised to pull these out today. They look like tiger iron almost, but they are not magnetic. They are rather heavy and solid feeling. I’m switching them over to a 3 pound tumbler now with 60/90 SiC for a few weeks, then I’ll throw them in the vibe to finish.   |
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Post by velodromed on Feb 19, 2024 21:58:40 GMT -5
Found this interesting one walking the dog along a dry creek near my neighborhood. I’ll get it into the tumbler in the next day or so. It really interests me and if you look close, it has tiny agate banding ‘pools’.  |
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Post by velodromed on Feb 19, 2024 22:29:14 GMT -5
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dillonf
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Post by dillonf on Feb 19, 2024 22:46:51 GMT -5
Nice Finds! Look forward to seeing how they polish up!
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Post by velodromed on Feb 20, 2024 6:55:18 GMT -5
Nice Finds! Look forward to seeing how they polish up! The first one I am definitely going to tumble. The second one (the mighty holy rock), I think I’ll send to iamchris in the box I’m working on for him. Let him go at it with his soul, I mean saw(lol) maybe slab the thing lengthwise or however he sees fit. |
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