Fossilized palm: wild-caught in Brenda, slab from PowWow

[tandl]

nice piece

[pghram]

Super find.

Rich

[carloscinco]

Great find, well sliced.

[drocknut]

Feb 21, 2014 12:22:29 GMT -5 rockpickerforever said:

Yeah, I maybe remember you showing me some. I guess I was still excited about finding the fossil fish, so probably wasn't paying a whole lot of attention, lol. Besides, you'd already found the blue rock before we got to that last location, so wasn't really expecting to find anything else cool, you had used up your allotment of cool finds! So did you find the palm this year at the last place we were at again?

I may just polish the bottom edge where the pores are on the flat lap, and see what it looks like just a little ways in. If nothing else, it'll give it a flat bottom to set on. Yeah, we'll see.

Are you getting old and don't remember me showing you them? Hmmm? I didn't think there was an allotment of cool finds, wish I had been informed so I didn't have to roam around looking for more after I got the blue rock. Yes, the pieces I found were at the last place we stopped but not right by Jim's truck.

I hope you do polish the edge so we can see if it's any good.

[rockpickerforever]

Diane drocknut , yeah, I guess you could say I'm getting old and don't remember... What were we talking about? J.K.
You didn't know about the allotment for wonderful finds? Well, now you do, lol.

I did grind a flat spot on the bottom of that chunk of palm, it is definitely NOT worth cutting further. The interior is very porous, and suffused with iron. My water immediately went red. I've only hit it on the 100 lap, will go ahead and polish it out, for what it's worth. So, word of advice - if your palm finds from the same area look about the same as this one, don't bother with cutting them. I'll post some pics when I finish it up.

[drocknut]

Good to know, thanks for grinding it to check it out. Oh well, at least we got a few specimens of palmwood from that area.

[rockpickerforever]

Finally made some time to get some pics uploaded to pb.  Here's one of the previously posted pics of the petrified palm find from Brenda in January.

Ground a flat spot on it, perpendicular to the pores.

Turned my water red with just minimal grinding.

An interesting pattern and pretty color, but you can see how porous it is.  This is about how well it would polish.

Here's another piece of palm found in same general area. I think I found this piece on last year's field trip - maybe...

And with a quicky window to show interior.

A nice pattern.  Makes me think Morse code, dots and dashes.  Oh, and some squiggles.

Will have to cut it into a couple slabs, and give it a chance to be something...

Okay, Diane drocknut , does your palm look more like the first one, or the second one?  If the first, don't waste your time.  If like the second, go for it!  Jean

[beefjello]

Cool Jean, your second piece is definitely palm.. and a nice one at that!

[Deleted]

I cut two slices off one of my Brenda agates and tossed it. full of vugs and the inside was not the black and blue like the outside. Not sure if I will cut any more either, they all look pretty much the same. Guess I am not a good rockpicker in AZ.
Jim

[rockpickerforever]

Feb 27, 2014 21:26:21 GMT -5 @wampidy said:

I cut two slices off one of my Brenda agates and tossed it. full of vugs and the inside was not the black and blue like the outside. Not sure if I will cut any more either, they all look pretty much the same. Guess I am not a good rockpicker in AZ.
Jim

Jim, I've got a lot of jasper from Brenda, both from this year and last. It is very vuggy, but there were a few pieces that hold some promise, with nice colors and patterns. They've been put on the back burner (in a bucket, under a table on the patio!) for now.  I'll get to them someday, and see what it can get out of them.

Don't give up on picking rocks, it just takes a practiced eye.  And, of course, the company you keep while picking rocks is way more important that what you find anyway...  Well, mostly.

[drocknut]

Jean, the one I got this year was much like your number one piece but the pieces I got last year look more like the second one so there's hope for them. Thanks for posting the pictures.
Jim, don't give up on them, there might be some keepers in the bunch, don't really know what you've got until you cut them.