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Let's Rock => Rough and Slabs => Topic started by: Kaljaia on May 05, 2019, 08:15:37 PM

Title: T-eggs
Post by: Kaljaia on May 05, 2019, 08:15:37 PM

More from the old military road bed!
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Colored banding yay! I didn't see it until I'd removed the egg from the vice, otherwise I'd have taken a slab off. I cut the end off this egg, as it was a long hollow one, and the other end had common opal fill with fluff zeolites. Really unique egg.

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Typical green-matrix egg with 'snowflaked' (i don't know what else to call the feathering in the agate) fill and a tiny dendrite! I keep hoping for a good big dendrite someday, but for now just a few tiny ones.

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Red egg with what I think is an oddly formed calcite fill. Really I have no idea what's in this one.

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'Dud' ball of tiny eggs, more or less a 'rainforest' rhyolite. Cut a few slabs for mosaic rock. It's a bit soft, with some pitting.

Title: Re: T-eggs
Post by: lithicbeads on May 05, 2019, 09:18:57 PM

 Fun stuff !

Title: Re: T-eggs
Post by: rocks2dust on May 06, 2019, 10:17:26 AM

Just gorgeous!

Title: Re: T-eggs
Post by: hummingbirdstones on May 07, 2019, 04:50:17 PM

Beautiful finds, Kaljaia!

Title: Re: T-eggs
Post by: fossilman on October 02, 2019, 08:11:06 AM

Score! Nothing like cutting a beautiful egg!

Title: Re: T-eggs
Post by: lithicbeads on October 02, 2019, 12:45:45 PM

 Exciting.How cool is it at night down there?

Title: Re: T-eggs
Post by: Kaljaia on October 02, 2019, 07:30:11 PM

Quote from: lithicbeads on October 02, 2019, 12:45:45 PM

Exciting.How cool is it at night down there?

Last night was 28. Went deer hunting at 5 AM and froze on the 30 minute ATV ride out. No luck on the deer! 60 today, still in the 50's with cloud cover and dead calm.

Title: Re: T-eggs
Post by: lithicbeads on October 02, 2019, 08:28:17 PM

We almost had frost at my place.Have a good winter.