longtallmark
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Post by longtallmark on Aug 23, 2009 12:22:57 GMT -5
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cman
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Post by cman on Aug 23, 2009 16:46:03 GMT -5
Blue and White looks like Sodalite
Man should have kicked some more up off the tracks.
If you saved all of those as a youth you might have been richer then Gates.
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Post by MyNewHobby on Aug 24, 2009 15:46:41 GMT -5
Those are some crazy looking stones! Cool!
The first one looks almost green. Maybe a lace of some kind.
As always
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longtallmark
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Post by longtallmark on Aug 24, 2009 22:35:56 GMT -5
It is green! There was actually much more green in it before it went through the tumbler. I think I may have almost ruined it.
Pre-tumble, it looked like a ball of toothpaste.
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Post by texaswoodie on Aug 25, 2009 10:18:55 GMT -5
The red one is a Poppy Jasper. The last one is a fossilized clam. We call them deer hearts around here.
Curt
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carloscinco
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Post by carloscinco on Aug 25, 2009 19:44:29 GMT -5
The things you did at the tracks as a kid are what I still do today. I have to look for abandoned tracks to find gravel since they started using the quartzite material that today's tracks are laid with.
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longtallmark
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Post by longtallmark on Aug 26, 2009 17:10:17 GMT -5
Amazing the stones you can find on those tracks. No telling where they came from.
Poppy jasper, aye?
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 27, 2009 8:58:57 GMT -5
The 3rd one down is a "lake superior agate"...................
The 9th one down looks like polished quartz...........
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longtallmark
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Post by longtallmark on Aug 28, 2009 19:26:59 GMT -5
I wondered about the 3rd one down--whether or not it is actually agate. It has layers like agate, but not the typical color array. I suppose a cab machine would do me some good at this point.
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gloria
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Post by gloria on Sept 8, 2009 20:18:56 GMT -5
2nd one down is feldspar and quartz, I have it's twin
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