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Post by fernwood on Aug 10, 2019 15:50:45 GMT -5
Posting here, as it is both equipment and rocks. Picked up in Quick Trip parking lot, lol. Here is the great part. I was able to ID some of the 300 + pounds of additional rocks the seller has. She has entrusted me to help her sell them. Will deliver to my barn and I can keep them there. toiv0 NDK wigglinrocks I will be posting photos of everything in her truck tomorrow. There is lots of mahogany obsidian, chrysocolla, charoite (or something that looks the same), copper/gold/silver ore and much more. All was found or purchased between the 1970's -1990's by her father. He was a perfectionist according to her. Much of the collection is in bags labeled with the name and location found. Much of the material is from NM and AZ. There are 3 large industrial totes of about 50-75 lbs each, about 4 crates and a couple more pails. A sluice box with carrying strap and a heavy duty bucket strainer. I am guessing the strainer was used at the bottom of the sluice box. I did not have time to go through everything, but photographed the containers. Here are a few photos of what was in my pails. Opals. Some have fire. Did not try to open the jar yet. This is some of the supposed gold/silver/copper ore. Was labeled variscite. Unknown slabs. Group of rocks. There was a gallon bag stuffed with this: More rocks. I should know the name of this, but forgot. Another stuffed gallon bag. There are 2 more bags of it. More rocks. That is about 1/3 of the random rocks I got in the pails.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 10, 2019 16:35:43 GMT -5
Looks like you SCORED, Beth! Good for you! Looking forward to seeing what you post up. Are you going to be selling for her on the forum (please!)?
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Post by amygdule on Aug 10, 2019 17:33:42 GMT -5
Nice score!
Looks like a jar of Opal. Is there any fire?
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Post by NDK on Aug 10, 2019 19:22:44 GMT -5
fernwood - Of course because I ordered a box from Tony last night 😆 Looks like that 2nd gallon bag maybe is chalcedony roses? Possible fire agate? Thanks for the poke Beth
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Post by <'))))>< Fish on Aug 10, 2019 19:55:15 GMT -5
i would love to see photos of the Charoite and copper/gold/silver stones
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Post by MsAli on Aug 10, 2019 21:41:13 GMT -5
That's an awesome score!
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Post by fernwood on Aug 10, 2019 23:47:25 GMT -5
Looks like you SCORED, Beth! Good for you! Looking forward to seeing what you post up. Are you going to be selling for her on the forum (please!)? I dunno. Posting photos of what is for sale below.
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Post by fernwood on Aug 10, 2019 23:53:59 GMT -5
Here are the photos of what is in back of truck. Each photo is a separate container. The three gray totes with the red lids are about 3' long. 5 gallon pail of obsidian and mahogany obsidian. Tote of rocks. Another tote full. Crate. Another crate. Sluice. Sluice and strainer. Crate of obsidian. More detail below. Smaller tote. It is about 2.5' long. Another large tote. Same green crate as above. It is full of obsidian. So, that is everything.
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Post by wigglinrocks on Aug 11, 2019 9:41:42 GMT -5
Congrats on the saw deal AND the rocks to go along with it . You're welcome .
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Post by fernwood on Aug 11, 2019 14:56:21 GMT -5
<'))))>< Fish I edited the above post to include some that were labeled as ore. The large one has many gold colored spots, some a few CM's .size Here are a few more that appear to have silver/copper in them. They were only labeled as from Big Diggins. Some other rocks from that bag who do not have any mineral content are also in the photo. Looks like silver in large one and copper in smaller ones.
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Post by stardiamond on Aug 11, 2019 15:35:51 GMT -5
I am no expert. The unknown after the Variscite is likely more Variscite. I have a cigar box labeled Variscite and it looks the same.
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 12, 2019 9:19:25 GMT -5
Nice haul, this will keep ya' busy for awhile!
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