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Let's Rock => Identifications of Materials => Topic started by: Stonemon on December 20, 2016, 03:43:14 PM
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I cut this piece from a slab I bought with the inventory of an old shop. No ID on it, my best guess is Ocean Jasper?
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Bill
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Wow! That is wild. It doesn't look like ocean jasper to me. Any idea where it is from?
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I was thinking it looks like some of the Hornitos Poppy jasper I've seen. I really like the way you featured that wavy striped arc in your cab design.
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I do not have a location for the material. Most of the material I got from this collection was from Oregon. Some Nevada and some exotics.
I wish I had a bunch of it as it works nicely and I really like the way it looks.
It does have some similarity to the Hornitos R2D. Probably the closest match I have seen.
Thanks for the input. I am open to more insight if anyone else want to venture an opinion.
Thanks, Bill
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It's not Hornitos. The colors are wrong. I've not seen that much white in any of it. The red should be brick red.
By the way, I've been to the site with the owner. He lets our club come up and take what we can truck out. The vein with the poppies in it was depleted long ago. The veins I've worked on are just red/pink with darker dots.
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It looks like the Mexican Lace in my pile. Any chance of that?
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May turn out not to be Hornitos, but there are/were a wide range of colors in that, including white. What you got depends on the chunk and how the chunk was sliced. At least on the old stuff, there were layers of mostly sugary white, some that were very bright "Strawberry" red (not brick), some mostly shades of pinks, some browns with golden shades. Not every slice is necessarily going to be the classic dark brick red background with red and pink poppies. The brecciation in the pattern is something else you see in Hornitos (though also in many other California poppies). If Stonemon has pics of (or can recall) the original slab, there may be more clues.
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I'll take a look and see if there is any more of this material in the boxes I got.
I trimmed very little off of the piece to get my cab so not much help there. Thanks for the input...
I always like to know what I am putting up for sale!
Bill
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The red looks more like rhyolite to my eye. I've seen a lot of poppy jaspers over the years, and none that I have seen have that particular wonderstone type hue.
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It actually looks a lot a jasper that was surface and hard rock collected east of Quartzsite for years in small quantities. Later was claimed and labeled as Jasperella, near the Good day Chrysocolla claim as well if I recall right. The original owner of Blue Mtn Jasper (Kop) had several pieces always on display yeas ago and that is what he told me he dug it up near. THese two cabs are from my sold archive and were purchase from the Teddy Ridge mining CO who had the jasperella claim in early 2004.