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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 22:05:04 GMT -5
I think the energy you two spent if not properly contained would quickly become a new sun!
8-10 hrs a day for over a week (or two!) Boggles my mind.
I'm good for 4 hours a day of solid hounding. Then it's sammiches and waters for me. Ibuprofen to sleep, maybe a beer or three.
I bow to the energy and enterprise of both of you. Well done guys!!
Jim? You done or more for you?
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Post by Garage Rocker on Nov 3, 2016 22:08:34 GMT -5
Love those panoramas jamesp. I enjoy the feeling of isolation in a place like that. You're like the energizer bunny. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 3, 2016 22:11:46 GMT -5
I think the energy you two spent if not properly contained would quickly become a new sun! 8-10 hrs a day for over a week (or two!) Boggles my mind. I'm good for 4 hours a day of solid hounding. Then it's sammiches and waters for me. Ibuprofen to sleep, maybe a beer or three. I bow to the energy and enterprise of both of you. Well done guys!! Jim? You done or more for you? Not normally driven like this, got to blame the treasures. Got no agates out east, not like this anyway. You Cali folks got the rocks. Probably routine for you guys. Advil and Aleve helps. Got all my stuff organized for a last day hunt tomorrow. Probably hit the road early Sat. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 3, 2016 22:16:40 GMT -5
Love those panoramas jamesp. I enjoy the feeling of isolation in a place like that. You're like the energizer bunny. A long point out into the lake Randy. Wind often blowing out of Mexico and stops highway sound which is about 6 miles away. The only person I have seen while out of my car at hounding area was Bob. I probably average 7 hours hunting. I do smell the roses and watch nature. Poke around in town a bit. Hunting rocks here grabs all your attention though. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 3, 2016 22:20:24 GMT -5
I bought a bucket of tumbles. These people get it when you give them to them.
Many of these people are avid arrowhead hunters and understand cherts palm wood and agates.
One rancher said, "oh yea, those lace stones". He and his wife pick them up.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Nov 3, 2016 22:26:05 GMT -5
Love those panoramas jamesp. I enjoy the feeling of isolation in a place like that. You're like the energizer bunny. A long point out into the lake Randy. Wind often blowing out of Mexico and stops highway sound which is about 6 miles away. The only person I have seen while out of my car at hounding area was Bob. I probably average 7 hours hunting. I do smell the roses and watch nature. Poke around in town a bit. Hunting rocks here grabs all your attention though. I'd go hog wild in a place like that too. Totally different experience than back here. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 22:26:13 GMT -5
I bought a bucket of tumbles. These people get it when you give them to them. Many of these people are avid arrowhead hunters and understand cherts palm wood and agates. One rancher said, "oh yea, those lace stones". He and his wife pick them up. Like bringing candy and fish hooks to the Amazon basin! Smart man. Indeed. |
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Post by MrMike on Nov 3, 2016 22:47:32 GMT -5
A long point out into the lake Randy. Wind often blowing out of Mexico and stops highway sound which is about 6 miles away. The only person I have seen while out of my car at hounding area was Bob. I probably average 7 hours hunting. I do smell the roses and watch nature. Poke around in town a bit. Hunting rocks here grabs all your attention though. I'd go hog wild in a place like that too. Totally different experience than back here. Amen my east of the Mississippi brother. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 3, 2016 23:30:25 GMT -5
Took some field picture of rock hunting here today. May shed some light on the process. Common habitat for cobbles, partially imbedded in sand. Most of the black is wood. One out of 50 gem wood. www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157676013693166 Deep purple plume biscuit dead center  yellow/orange plume biscuit. Yes, that is often all the color you get. Then the flattened shape.  not bad  Hard as concrete Texas caliche. Most likely prehistoric rock slurry. Fine road underlayment. Agates will break often when trying to remove them from this concrete like material. Some 15 foot vertical walls of caliche, packed with never seen rocks.  Texas chert no slouch in the looks dept. Sharp X1000  Looks to be a jasper dead center  not bad, peculiar fellow. Jasper crazy here. Most of it is puuuurple. Hematite ??  invisible thorns, mostly at upper body level. Trees with thorns ---why  common Texas chert  red jasper w/veins  looks best in person  common Texas chert. never know about chert  aardvark jasper  aardvark opened  a fooler, didn't get jamesp  chocolate plume  common wood but well silicified  converted to tumbles, will shine to no end  common Texas fossil chert  nice conglomerate  stole a few tumbles off it  10 pounder just laying there. No rock hunter has been here.  10 pounds of fine triple color plume. Don't let cloudy day fool you. That sucker is gorgeous  alien brain tissue, 5 pounds of it  And that was about 40 minutes worth. Did about 150 pounds from 12PM to 6:30PM. Productive spot. That I had walked over briefly last week. Thanks for looking in. Tired of sticking images. Last day for collecting is tomorrow. Feel guilty about Bob leaving so early. He will know what to do next time. Then bonboyage , spelled Georgia style. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 23:47:54 GMT -5
Omg....
Wow.
Aardvark? Wow!
Chert looks like Polish flint. High dollar.
Alien brain?
Puuuuurple jasper???
10# triple color plume? All in one day?
I wanna cry.
You certainly earned it.
Congrats
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Post by captbob on Nov 3, 2016 23:53:18 GMT -5
*sigh*
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Post by jamesp on Nov 3, 2016 23:54:16 GMT -5
Some wood finds close to my heart     This IS wood. Trust me. Next photo is insides. Makes no sense. Welcome to Texas wood.   Bet this one will pinch Mel's mind. 6 pounds and hard to crack  The skin on this one was a guaranteed fruit cake. Real cool rock, almost soft ball sized   jasper/plume hybrid bad photo  round like a jasper ??  wear your sunglasses jasper  plummy jasperoid  tons of purple jasper in every pattern. the purple stuff pulls a fine polish in the tumbler. glass like.  jasperoids  banana/pineapple popsicle at the 'Mexican ice cream shop' as the locals refer to it as. Think the girls were serving something else in the backroom. Was open at 11:30 PM the other night.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 0:07:49 GMT -5
banana/pineapple popsicle at the 'Mexican ice cream shop' as the locals refer to it as. Think the girls were serving something else in the backroom. Was open at 11:30 PM the other night. What 'toppings' do they offer? Hehehehe |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 4, 2016 0:13:29 GMT -5
No telling.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 4, 2016 0:15:19 GMT -5
close in of alien brain agate. needs polish to figure that one out. It is grainy but totally dense and will polish to water  |
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Post by meviva on Nov 4, 2016 0:24:27 GMT -5
WOW!! Love the aardvark. Unbelievable variety!! Love them all.
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Post by MrMike on Nov 4, 2016 6:43:10 GMT -5
jamesp, these are looking too good to be true. Starting to wonder if you're somehow altering the photos. To protect your reputation on RTH I suggest, no I insist that you send me a LFRB sampling of the best materials for evaluation. I will share results of said evaluation with the RTH community. Sorry but I just don't see any other way to resolve this situation... Seriously, great trip report, photos and awesome finds. Thanks for letting me tag along.
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 4, 2016 8:24:37 GMT -5
Zowie! James if this thread ain't the next best thing to being there, I don't know what is. Really fun to see the gravel closeups. Looks like some wood in there with the agates all right. Excellent finds you made and you are right, that red one with the little fortifications rules big time. Like the green and yellow aardvark jasper too. Wonder how many green plumes you'll get when you cut those. Matt Dillon seems to find quite a few but none for me as yet from Clayton's material. Interesting the Carrizo Springs material has much more crust on it. Lake action seems to have cleaned your stuff up a lot more.
Re: the thorns. I told you folks about the old Texas saying, " In Texas, if'n it don't bite , stank or stang, it has thorns!" *L*.....Mel
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Post by jamesp on Nov 4, 2016 8:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Nov 4, 2016 8:55:39 GMT -5
jamesp, these are looking too good to be true. Starting to wonder if you're somehow altering the photos. To protect your reputation on RTH I suggest, no I insist that you send me a LFRB sampling of the best materials for evaluation. I will share results of said evaluation with the RTH community. Sorry but I just don't see any other way to resolve this situation... Seriously, great trip report, photos and awesome finds. Thanks for letting me tag along. I hope not to make any enemies turning down requests for boxes of rocks. It is a 3 year trip. Probably be another 3 years before returning. Got to feed the saw and the tumblers with something. Guilty of possessiveness. There is several high water shorelines that have piled serious tumbling gravel for many miles. Tumbler's paradise collecting the contours where the gravel shores are up on higher land when the lake is low like this. Rocks that need one week in course grit.. You could sit on your butt and fill a 5 gallon bucket in 10 feet with fine agates and woods. |
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