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Post by adam on Oct 23, 2016 15:15:30 GMT -5
Those are some hot rocks.
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Post by barclay on Oct 23, 2016 15:30:39 GMT -5
west Texas, Rio Grand region. Thanks
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Post by orrum on Oct 23, 2016 16:54:29 GMT -5
You go Jim!!! You could go rubber tire tramp with me this year!!!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 23, 2016 22:43:27 GMT -5
Some from the top of the bucket today. Reading patina is an art. To be considered: Biscuit shape Speckled appearance Swirls and plume/moss markings High chalcedony content = white bleaching botryoidal pocking red gold purple green yellow orange coloring Many are totally bleached to white/off-white. Only way to know is to window the rock. About 1 in 100-300 are agates. Most rocks are glassy earth toned Texas chert with a plethora of markings. And the chert will fool you. Many very similar to agate. Most of the rocks are covered in caliche. Almost secured permission to hunt a larger quarry adjacent, just got to get permission from the cattle lease holder. Owner says OK. www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157672067750713
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2016 6:18:22 GMT -5
Great slideshow. There is a learning curve involved, that's for sure. Looks like you guys are doing well. One of those last ones ( the one unchipped in the pic) really looks promising, maybe a bit of plume in that one. Keep them pics coming. This is turning out to be a fun vicarious trip for all of us!....Mel
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 9:18:35 GMT -5
Great slideshow. There is a learning curve involved, that's for sure. Looks like you guys are doing well. One of those last ones ( the one unchipped in the pic) really looks promising, maybe a bit of plume in that one. Keep them pics coming. This is turning out to be a fun vicarious trip for all of us!....Mel This is a foreign place Mel. Quite different from Atlanta in more ways than one. Mystified why some places in the caliche hash spit out more agates/volume than others. Hoping to get into a large quarry today that I visited last trip that has large stock piles of cleaned #2 DOT gravel(2-3 inches) and an enormous pile of large reject cobbles. That pile will sink our boat. Will enjoy watching a wild eyed Bob in that pile...more fun watching exuberant collector than collecting myself. Kid in candy jar. Theory working out-find deposits of large 2-6 inch cobbles and collect there. Percentage- agate:chert still about the same. But agate quality often suffers after 4 inches. Also, collecting behind the mesquite that prevents boat collector's access yields more untouched areas. More hiking involved though. Got an achey lower body. Jasper has strange way of being concentrated in some areas more than others. Same with wood. All an enigma.
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2016 12:22:29 GMT -5
James: *L* Bob is an enthusiastic feller all right. Clayton tells me there is little rhyme nor reason to the agate deposits on the ranch he has too. Says sometimes it's easier just to collect road cuts. I've also found that in most cases, the quality of larger agates is not all that good. Large ones I get tend to be sugary, grainy, or porous and almost exclusively the yellow mossy material. Even the quarry rock I get to see is, as I've said before, quite variable. Last couple of years, agate has been scarce, while, when I first started hunting the rock piles, I could pick out a five gallon bucket full of good agates off the top of the pile without even digging around in it. To me, it seems as they've gotten down deeper in the quarry the agate has thinned out. Wood too. Used to find way more palm. Just very hard to figure. Can't wait to see what you find in the oversized cobble pile. If you find an agate there, it should be a whopper!......mel
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 22:21:20 GMT -5
We could not get into big quarry today Sabre52. Maybe tomorrow. Yes, the yellows get big but are grainy with tiny plumes. Run across a couple every day 10+ pounds. Useless. Hunted a finger going out in the lake today. Prime spot about 300' X 150'. Under and around the mesquite. Where no one goes. A full bucket of high grade waxy faced Rio's in 2 to 4 inch size. Half bucket smaller stuff. Cherry picked a lot of material. High density spot. They seemed to be at the interface of the caliche and the clay/sandstone below. Finger travels far toward center of lake(river). Here is the site, under 15 feet of water when lake is at full pool. DEA blimp in upper right corner. While taking photo I noticed a moss next to my stack. Blimp watching captbob 2 miles north, black rocks are pet wood Natural gas activity speckled all over the place captbob feeding the kittens as he does every night orange bucket
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 22:25:48 GMT -5
Decided to make a collection of S Texas ranch gates. They are bodacious and welded. These people weld everything. For those of you that deer hunt-2 kinds of land here for deer hunting, high fence and the rest. High fence ranches keep the deer on their ranch. Often feeding them and growing monster racks. Saw a sign "200 class white tail deer for sale". That's a humongo deer. Seen coyote-fox-deer-road runners-falcons-black snake-thick lizard about a foot long-tons of butterflies-rabbits w/elephant ears-many birds. No ticks. Last visit I met 2 badgers in the road. Got out of car and walked 15 feet from them; they acted like I was a nothing. attitude The foliage must be related to Rosemary and lavender judging from the strong scents. I tiny whip limb of mesquite will stop you in your tracks. Remove skin easily. I think livestock damage their eyes regularly. Weather hot after 1 PM. Me and Bob sore and moving a bit slow at days end. Old farts in late 50's, ha ha. www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157675666888365
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2016 22:39:40 GMT -5
This thread is so cool, I even approve of the Dr Ike's bucket(s) . Say hi to Bob!! 👍👍
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 22:44:21 GMT -5
This thread is so cool, I even approve of the Dr Ike's bucket. Say hi to Bob!! 👍👍 The bucket seems to relate to a past discussion. I was heart broke this morning, this snake is 6 feet long. Some arse hole went out of his way to run over it. Indigo ??
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Post by 1dave on Oct 24, 2016 22:46:19 GMT -5
Even the pet wood has tumbled a long way from home.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2016 22:47:47 GMT -5
Indigo.
Texas form. Season is now to Thanksgiving.
8-(
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2016 22:51:02 GMT -5
I love the gates too. Round here some of the ranches have gates that probably cost more than my home. Welding is a fine art hereabouts.
More great rock pics....goodie!
Man oh man, can't you come up with a real rock hammer to chip rocks? Nail hammering hammer can shed fragments that require surgery to remove when you use them on rocks. My father in law found that out one day. Nasty wound and hard to dig that steel spall out. Went clear to the bone!
Treat mesquite and huisache thorn punctures with caution ( neosporin and or betadine after peroxide) Infections from those can ruin your whole week.
Hope you don't stumble on any relict Comanche out in that brush. That ponytail ole Bob sports would make a fine lodge decoration *L*.
Ah man, so many critters get run over in Iexas. I love those Indigo Snakes and they are protected in Texas. Only seen a couple live and several DOR and Cara Caras were munching those. You seeing a lot of Cara Caras? One of my favorite birds and all over south Texas...Mel
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 23:02:54 GMT -5
There are many packs ? of wild horses out here. Like 4-8 per pack. They are very wild, running and picking at each other. Running into the lake and rolling in the water. Many w/young. Every pack seems to have a big stud. The females hide behind him. This one I walked up to. His harem hides behind him. I sense he would be aggressive toward me if I got close to his ladies. I fear him more than any rattlesnake. Don't know horses, so I can't read his body language. Why are his ears pointing backward ? Me 15 feet from him. He is a hoss, could kick me into Mexico. He in particular is always watching me, all day. Kicking the ground or rocks. What's his problem ?
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 23:14:00 GMT -5
Sabre52 Lots of Cara cara. Saw 4 in a blob yesterday chasing the one that had what looked like a song bird in it's beak. Very athletic show right in front of me. Agile/nimble flyers. Comical looking. As is the crazy road runner. Last trip I scoffed at the mesquite. Have naugahyde skin and used to stickers. A few scratches, so what. Not mesquite, my arms festered like never before and made my skin so sensitive that Neosporin even felt like salt. Day 9-10-11 of that trip was about ruined. This time being very respectful. Bob actually hunted Bob's Knob and my friend's ranch directly adjacent to it. The rocky ground did his feet in this time. Sand not like rocks.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 23:15:33 GMT -5
Indigo. Texas form. Season is now to Thanksgiving. 8-( Season ? What season ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2016 23:15:59 GMT -5
jamesp captbob knows I have an orange bucket fetish. So he is being a curmudgeon and teasing me with non THD orange buckets!! I love it. Get me one and save it for when I see u in Quartzite!!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 23:22:20 GMT -5
Even the pet wood has tumbled a long way from home. Most of it is black Dave(dark dark brown). Some is very hard and silicified. Some pithy. It occurs in certain areas. Should I say layers.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2016 23:23:53 GMT -5
jamesp captbob knows I have an orange bucket fetish. So he is being a curmudgeon and teasing me with non THD orange buckets!! I love it. Get me one and save it for when I see u in Quartzite!! LOL. Me aware. I was the one that insisted on the photo.
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