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Post by pauls on Apr 16, 2017 20:26:33 GMT -5
I don't normally do batch tumbling, usually I open up once a week and grab a couple of Kilograms of stones out to check, wash, pick out and put aside any ready to move on, touch up any pits or cracks with the saw or grinder, top up with new rocks, add grit and water and roll them. When I got quite a few that were looking pretty good to go on I decided to do the clean out. 5.5 Kg of mainly Agate Creek Queensland Australia Agates and a few Queensland Petrified wood, good to move on to finer grits.  15 Kg of mainly Agate Creek Agate in various stages of rough grinding, about half have been touched up and will be ready to come out in a few weeks to move on.  All self collected. |
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Post by wigglinrocks on Apr 16, 2017 21:11:35 GMT -5
That's a sweet looking tray of candy you have going
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Post by Roger on Apr 22, 2017 0:27:12 GMT -5
15.5kgs lol Are you leaving ANY agates in the area for others to find?? Those are looking pretty darn good  |
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Post by pauls on Apr 22, 2017 5:03:51 GMT -5
Not much chance of running out of Agate any time soon, It's an area about 15 Km long by about 5Km wide, these are pictures of the ground at one spot, its literally all agate. Not everywhere has as much but it doesn't take too much effort to find a good spot, most people that are after good sized lumps are digging for it these days but tumbler fodder is just lying around. This is the ground on the track above a spot called Black soil, most of the Agate in this spot is small but egg sized nodules can be found by scratching around. This gravel is just as it is, it's not brought in to make the track, the track goes through it.   |
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 22, 2017 7:38:55 GMT -5
Wow! Just jaw droppingly wow!...Mel
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Post by notjustone on Apr 22, 2017 7:51:08 GMT -5
Not much chance of running out of Agate any time soon, It's an area about 15 Km long by about 5Km wide, these are pictures of the ground at one spot, its literally all agate. Not everywhere has as much but it doesn't take too much effort to find a good spot, most people that are after good sized lumps are digging for it these days but tumbler fodder is just lying around. This is the ground on the track above a spot called Black soil, most of the Agate in this spot is small but egg sized nodules can be found by scratching around. This gravel is just as it is, it's not brought in to make the track, the track goes through it. drool tumbling material. |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Apr 22, 2017 8:10:45 GMT -5
Good gracious! Grab a shovel and some buckets, PRONTO!!!
Nice looking batch you've got going there. I'd learn the metric system to be able to collect that kind of material. 😉
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Post by MrMike on Apr 22, 2017 9:39:29 GMT -5
Holy crap!! A Road of Agates!
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 22, 2017 10:05:22 GMT -5
OMG!!!!!! Totally crazy cool!!!! A river and (Or) lake of agates,just like Glass Buttes and it's Obsidian,its everywhere!!!
Liking your tumbles too! HOLY MOLLY!!!!!!!
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Post by bcrockhound on Apr 22, 2017 12:27:59 GMT -5
Man finding a spot like that would turn me into Gollum with the ring.
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Post by morerockspleaz on Apr 22, 2017 15:43:51 GMT -5
Wow now that's some eye candy.So colorful I wish the Easter bunny laid those kind of eggs around here. Beautiful tumbled stones.
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Post by youp50 on Apr 22, 2017 21:37:14 GMT -5
Good gracious! Grab a shovel and some buckets, PRONTO!!! Nice looking batch you've got going there. I'd learn the metric system to be able to collect that kind of material. 😉 On the metric system; if God wanted us to use the metric system He would have given us 10 fingers and 10 toes. Just saying..... With no doubt at all, that is the best gravel road I have ever seen pictures of. A road like that in the States would be much lower in no time at all. Thanks for showing the images! |
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Post by youp50 on Apr 22, 2017 21:41:00 GMT -5
Road like that should be hard on tires near the end of their tread depth.
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Post by grizman on Apr 22, 2017 22:56:57 GMT -5
WOWWWZERS! What a road and what a rock-heads delight. The variety of color is amazing and your tumbling project has left me very envious of your location. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by rollingstone on Apr 23, 2017 21:00:57 GMT -5
Good grief, you live in Heaven! And to think they charge about $10 per pound on ebay for Queensland agates...
-Don
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Post by jamesp on Apr 24, 2017 9:54:29 GMT -5
I'm coming down there to set up 500 tumblers. Make it a thousand. Looks like a candy shop paved the road with crushed hard candy !
Mergatroids
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Post by pauls on Apr 24, 2017 17:44:43 GMT -5
It might be better James to get it and take it home, our electricity prices are really high.
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Post by pauls on May 1, 2017 23:24:24 GMT -5
I have polished about a quarter of the rocks in the 5Kg batch in the first post, here's a few of them finished. There is another photo of some other nice colours, but photobucket is choking on it for some reason. Some pinks  Some Sardonyx  Petrified Wood  Eye Agates the majority of these came from the track in the picture above  |
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Post by Garage Rocker on May 2, 2017 1:16:21 GMT -5
Loving those eye agates!
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Post by toiv0 on May 2, 2017 5:12:25 GMT -5
It is uncanny how the eye agate and pinks are dead ringer for Lake superior agate. The pinks and oranges we call candy and the eyes wowowow. Thanks for the pics.
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