Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 18, 2007 13:42:14 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Was going through my frustration file of unidentified slabs and was hoping maybe Jamie or Dale or any one of you rockhound/ dealers could help me out. The first slab I would think is maybe Wingate Plume except I got it from the collector who swore he collected it in Oregon but of course, would give me no further information. Maybe Dale ( Rhodescabin) has seen it since that's his neck of the woods. This slab is one of several I got at the Nipomo show year before last and totally has me stumped. It was so nice I bought all he had. Every slab is similar with tons of golden tubes and eyes on snow white agate. The seller claimed it was a Tampa Bay Coral Geode but the exterior looks like a volcanic nodule crust and is very unlike the crust on any of my coral specimens. Ideas anyone? Thanks ....mel
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181lizard
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Post by 181lizard on Jan 19, 2007 14:37:32 GMT -5
Wow Mel! When one of the most knowledgeable peeps around here is stumped...looks like you're just gonna have play with your rocks without knowing a name!
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rallyrocks
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Post by rallyrocks on Jan 19, 2007 17:35:02 GMT -5
I know I've seen some plume very similar to that first one, can't for the life of me remember where- but in a couple days of digging around the closest I've come across in terms of Oregon sources for anything remotely like that would be Nyedigger Ranch plume.
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desertdweller
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Post by desertdweller on Jan 19, 2007 17:58:54 GMT -5
Hi Mel, Try this website
agateswithinclusions.com,
I bet you will find a match so you can identify your slabs.
Jamie
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 19, 2007 19:20:27 GMT -5
Jamie: I tried that with no luck except I still think Wingate comes closest.
Rally: I was thinking the plume shapes do look a lot like Nyedigger except my few examples from there are all white plume. Now I will have to go to the Agates with Inclusions site again and look over the Nyedigger.
Thanks guys!.....mel
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Post by rallyrocks on Jan 19, 2007 19:51:47 GMT -5
The Wingate I've seen looks to have a bit more intense and distinct reds and yellows, and some brecciation, but whatever it is- that is one spectacular slab- actually two, both of them are really fantastic!
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rhodescabbin
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Post by rhodescabbin on Jan 19, 2007 20:22:41 GMT -5
Mercy!!! I have no clue. I see above those fantastic Plumes that the rock had lots of bubbles on the exterior which, atleast in Oregon, well Woodwards are like that too, if theres lots of bubbles theres usually Plumes...I do not know the tec term I am sure its not bubbles lol...I tell ya I see so many Oregon collections with mind blowing Agates that have no I.D. on them. I looked at one last week that we came so close to getting but a fella beat us to it anyway there was alot of gorgeous rocks the man had dug here in the Mitchell area. About a year before he passed away I asked him about the locale of some of the deposits and he laughed and said that was back in the 1930's all from horseback that he never worked a deposit more than a couple times as he had to much fun looking for them... If I were a betting man I would lean towards Wingate...Thanks for sharing the awesome pictures!!! -Dale Rhode
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 19, 2007 22:09:45 GMT -5
Thanks for the opinion Dale. I have a few Wingate slabs and many have that frothy, bubbly black part on top and while some have considerable red in them, others do not. However, Wingate almost always has soft spots or pits in the yellow plumes and this does not. I have another variety from this same source which I'll have to photograph and post. It's stranger still and this one he called Bird of Paradise, which to me is an entirely different bird *L*....mel
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Post by larrywyland3 on Jan 23, 2007 16:05:25 GMT -5
Hi
Don't know a lot about iding the jaspers and agates, but I did see a Nova Scotia plume that had a white jasper background with those color plumes. The plumes were smaller and it had no transparency to it.
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Post by stefan on Jan 31, 2007 11:52:14 GMT -5
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