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Post by NRG on May 6, 2020 8:07:08 GMT -5
Peace and happiness to you and Jeannie Scott. Serenity that such a space offers is a valuable commodity this day. Thank you it certainly is peaceful there. Plus the current owners have filled their deer tags off the front porch!
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Post by NRG on May 6, 2020 8:10:56 GMT -5
Does it come with a shop? I am not sure if you will have room to add one. LOL I will have to add an outbuilding. 7 years to save and plan that. Thinking about a 40x60 steel building. Lapidary, wood and metal shops, a bunkhouse for visitors, four indoor parking spaces......
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Post by orrum on May 6, 2020 8:28:34 GMT -5
NRG. That's my dream house and location!!! Looking at this thread its every bodies dream. Happy for ya pardner!!!
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Post by knave on May 6, 2020 8:32:48 GMT -5
Thinking about a 40x60 steel building. Lapidary, wood and metal shops, a bunkhouse for visitors, four indoor parking spaces...... Congratulations on a super nice place!! The shop sounds like my dream place to tinker and play with wood, metal, stone, etc.
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Post by nowyo on May 6, 2020 9:52:24 GMT -5
Looks good Scott NRG. That is a pretty area. I looked at properties over south of Westcliffe 20 years ago. There is some nice stuff right there in the Wet Mountains. Lots of cool places farther west in the Sangre de Cristo Range, and you're not far from the Spanish Peaks. Spent a fair amount of time down that way for a few years. Congrats. Russ
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Post by rockstock on May 6, 2020 10:09:26 GMT -5
That is awesome, congrats! I want the outbuilding portion too, maybe we can get a buy-one get-one deal ??🤣 I down sized from a 40x80 that I hadn't gotten to use to a 0x0 in switching properties (stupid flooding shortly after buying, sold took my loss and moved elsewhere)
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Post by 1dave on May 6, 2020 11:43:43 GMT -5
Be sure to have a boneyard hidden in the back corner to stash scrap supplies. Aka a useful junkyard well out of site. Us humans need 'stuff' to carry on a happy life. Yeah, there is a place we can put an out building and RV parking and behind that would be great for that And a 40 car parking structure for visitors.
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Post by 1dave on May 6, 2020 12:51:23 GMT -5
As the crow flies your new home is 26 miles east of some of the largest geodes in the world! THE BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE JULY 2007 - Megaspherulites by Paul V. HeinrichMember of the Houston Gem & Mineral Society Rockhounds, volcanologists, and other people who either collect or study volcanic rocks and minerals are quite familiar with more-or-less spherical bodies which are commonly found in glassy, typically rhyolitic lavas and felsic welded ash flow tuffs (ignimbrites). These spherical bodies, called “spherulites,” consist of radiating masses of either acicular crystals (also known as spherulites) of feldspar, different polymorphs of quartz, or combination of both arranged around a nucleus within its center. In some cases, these spherical bodies do not exhibit a distinct radial crystalline texture. However, they are still considered spherulites because they share a common origin with and often occur together with spherulites exhibiting radial textures. Spherulites are a very common feature found in obsidian, pitchstone, vitrophyre, and ignimbrites. The “snowflakes” of snowflake obsidian are a typical example of spherulites found in a rhyolitic volcanic rock. Typically, these spherulites range in size from a few millimeters to just less than one centimeter. However in very rare cases, spherulites greater than 20 cm in diameter (called “megaspherulites”) form decimeter- and meter-scale size natural stone balls as discussed by Smith et al. (2001a) and Tremallo(1998). Silver Cliff, Colorado The best documented example of megaspherulites, as described in detail by Smith etal. (2001a, 2001b), Tremallo (1998) Tremallo et al. (1998), are found in the Black Obsidian Quarry just north of Silver Cliff, Custer County, Colorado. These light gray to light brownish gray megaspherulites, which range in diameter from 0.21 to 4.3meters, occur within a black to greenish black vitrophyre with microscopic albite and biotite phenocrysts. This vitrophyre is the middle unit of a 76- to 106-meter thick Middle Tertiary rhyolitic lava flow. The megaspherulites consist of fine to very fine grained radiating masses of acicular sanidine with interstital quartz; 3 to 4 millimeterveins of feldspar; and secondary purple fluorite and manganese oxide dendrites. The acicular sanidine occurs as compound, fan-shaped masses which form radiating columnar-like jointing and cone structures (Smith et al., 2001a, 2001b). Cerro Piedra Bola, Jalisco State, Mexico The most spectacular known example of megaspherulites are stone balls, which range in diameter from 1.4 to 2 meters, and are found on and around Cerro Piedra Bola(Stirling 1969a, 1969b). It lies within the Sierra de Ameca about 6.2 miles southwest of Ahualulco de Mercado, Jalisco State, Mexico in the area of 20º 39’ 13.7” N, 104º03’ 27”W. Contrary to some descriptions, these stone balls occur not only in sphericalto semispherical shapes but as pear-shapes, cojoined twins, and dumbbells. In addition they are composed of devitrified volcanic material. According to Stirling (1969b),individual stone balls were encased in ash-flow deposits. Regionally, these tuffs havebeen dated to be 20 to 32 million years old (Frey 2007). According to Stirling (1969a,9 THE BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE JULY 2007 1969b), Dr. Robert L. Smith of the United States Geological Survey conducted a detailed petrographic analysis of samples from these stone balls. Unfortunately, the report that discussed these analyses was never published. It and the other field notes, pictures, samples, and petrographic thin sections of Dr. Smith and Dr. Stirling pertaining to their research appeared to have been lost. Currently, efforts are being made to protect these natural stone balls and to make them more accessible to tourists. Klondyke, Arizona Simon (1962) has briefly described megaspherulites, which are similar in nature to the stone balls of Cerro Piedra Bola, Jalisco State, Mexico, from the Santa Teresa - Turnbull Mountains near Klondyke, Graham County, Arizona. They occur in the east side of a gully on the west flank of these mountains in the center of Section 18, T. 6S.,R. 20 E. about 610 meters east of the road to Imperial Mountain and about 8 kilometers north of Klondyke. These megaspherulites have an average of about 1 meter with some individual examples that are more than 2 meters in diameter. They consist of spheruloitic, radiolitic, and axiolitic aggregates of cristobilite, mica, orthoclase, plagioclase, and quartz. They occur in a black vitropyhre, which is about 12 meters thick and contains phenocrysts of feldspar and sparse biotite and quartz. This vitrophyre is the middle layer of a partially devitrified welded ash flow tuff, which is over 20 to 27 meters thick (Simon 1962). Other Reported Megaspherulites Megaspherulites have been reported from other locations in the world. Fuller (1931)reported the presence of megaspherulites, as large as 3 feet (0.9 meters) in diameter, within Tertiary “laminated rhyolites” exposed within Steens Mountain, Harney County, Oregon. In addition, Walker and Scheller (2004) reported the presence of megaspherulites within outcrops of the basal part of the Precambrian Tile Red rhyo-lite in the St. Francois Mountains of Missouri. In both cases details about the physical characteristics of these megaspherulites have not been published. Stirling (1969a,1969b) also reported that megaspherulites with maximum diameters of only 0.6 metershave been found at six sites in outcrops of ash flow tuffs within an unspecified 1,300square kilometer area around Los Alamos, New Mexico. Rockhound State Park, New Mexico One place where rock hounds can observe and collect specimens of spherulites is Rockhound State Park near Deming, New Mexico (McLemore and Dunbar, 2000,Dunbar and McLemore, 2001, 2002). These spherulites range in size from 1 mm to about 30 cm in diameter. The spherulites, which are larger than 20 cm in diameter, are technically small megaspherulites. They occur in rhyolitic lavas. Many consist of concentrically zone dark grey to pinkish material surrounding a reddish core. Other spherulites of similar material are partly hollow. In a third group of these spherulites, this void space has been filled with agate, chalcedony, and quartz crystals. The concentrically banded portions of these spherulites have been shown by microprobe analysis to consist of intergrown quartz, alkali feldspar, plagioclase feldspar, and magnetite (Dunbar and McLemore 2002). Read more: forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/73693/mega-thundereggs#ixzz57KC0bFcQ
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2020 15:36:11 GMT -5
As the crow flies your new home is 26 miles east of some of the largest geodes in the world! Wow!
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Post by RocksInNJ on May 7, 2020 0:16:09 GMT -5
That’s awesome. Super Hoopy congrats to you both and hope you have many many years of enjoyment there.
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2020 4:28:52 GMT -5
Be sure to have a boneyard hidden in the back corner to stash scrap supplies. Aka a useful junkyard well out of site. Us humans need 'stuff' to carry on a happy life. Yeah, there is a place we can put an out building and RV parking and behind that would be great for that You can have tractor trailer loads of scrap iron dumped in the back corner well out of sight. A welder, plasma cutter and 50 - 100 tons of assorted scrap iron in the boneyard is heaven on earth for a rural land owner. Example is south Texas where thousands of miles of spent drilling pipe is welded up into sexy barns and sheds. Fencing and corals. A giant shed for welding, 48 inch rock saw, home made 12 inch sphere machine, giant tumbler, cover for off road vehicles, geodes, fire wood.......
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Post by NRG on May 7, 2020 8:10:38 GMT -5
NRG. That's my dream house and location!!! Looking at this thread its every bodies dream. Happy for ya pardner!!! Well, it's certainly our dream!! Thanks Bill!!!
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Post by NRG on May 7, 2020 8:13:28 GMT -5
That’s awesome. Super Hoopy congrats to you both and hope you have many many years of enjoyment there. Thank you!! ETA We are super hoopy too!
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Post by NRG on May 7, 2020 8:16:59 GMT -5
jamespSounds good. Need that tractor for sure. One project is to run a trench deep underground and run ducting in a 2-3 hundred foot loop. Then fans blowing air thru the loop can heat the shed to earth temperature all winter. For the cost of a fan. Like this guy
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Post by NRG on May 7, 2020 8:19:04 GMT -5
1daveThanks for the internet rockhounding! We will certainly have to visit that site. Perhaps sort out how to get one home for the patio!
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Post by NDK on May 7, 2020 8:19:11 GMT -5
Congratulations Scott & Jeannie! I wish you many wonderful years of enjoyment at your new place!
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Post by NRG on May 7, 2020 8:20:42 GMT -5
Looks good Scott NRG. That is a pretty area. I looked at properties over south of Westcliffe 20 years ago. There is some nice stuff right there in the Wet Mountains. Lots of cool places farther west in the Sangre de Cristo Range, and you're not far from the Spanish Peaks. Spent a fair amount of time down that way for a few years. Congrats. Russ I'll have to Google wet mountains for the rockhounding! Thanks Russ!!
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Post by NRG on May 7, 2020 8:21:41 GMT -5
Congratulations Scott & Jeannie! I wish you many wonderful years of enjoyment at your new place! Super cool of you to say. Thank you kindly! And once we settle in we will have to have an RTH Meetup!
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Post by NRG on May 7, 2020 8:47:30 GMT -5
As the crow flies your new home is 26 miles east of some of the largest geodes in the world! Wow! Wow indeed!
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Post by Rockoonz on May 7, 2020 12:15:15 GMT -5
Congrats Scott. Once we're in AZ, probably in fall, we'll be about 12 hours away. We will also be mobile, should have a toy hauler RV by the end of the weekend. I have a good friend and a master metalsmith who now lives in Colorado Springs as well. Maybe we'll finally get to hang out.
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