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Let's Rock => Rough and Slabs => Topic started by: irockhound on May 17, 2020, 09:24:46 AM
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After Vince posted his old Mex rough pic I thought this might make a great sticky thread where everyone can post unusual pictures they find in slabs and rough. There are so many possibilities from the classic Picture Jaspers to great fortification patterns in the form of images or even some of the classic Thunder Egg images. Lets get them all in one place for us all to enjoy.
I thought I would start it off with an Indonesian Palm Wood that the rough was picked up at Tyson Wells during Quartzsite for a buck a pound. Had a black rind on one side but other than that just looked like tan wood. I got 2 great slabs and some other good ones. First is a pic that looks like the Ceratosaurus and the 2nd is one that looks like a morae eel of scary worm? slabs are about 4" across
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#2, leaping large cat.
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#2 - a seal halfway through a fish dinner... .
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I can see the seal for sure.
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My volcano geode...
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Really good volcano, also a hurricane, oddly vertical next to the volcano.
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thats a major eruption
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3 LANDSCAPE PICTURE JASPER CABS FROM OREGON.
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The first picture jasper, a hilly shrub covered landscape with a dinosaur walking uphill. Will have to think about the other two.
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Great idea for a thread, irockhound! I'll sticky it so it's easy to find. :occasion14:
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Nice jasper pics. I love that blue sky in the 2nd pic. Which jasper is that looks like more translucence than the usual Jasper.
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The second jasper has me stumped, too. Only one I can think of with such a wide range of colors is Vistaite, but I don't think I've ever seen that shade of blue in anything we have.
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My bad !-- #1 and 3 are jasper #2 is from a thunderegg its obviously agate. :Bash:
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More picture jasper
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I cut this one last week. It was a Montana that had the rind on the left so I had to cut carefully to remove rind cracks while maintaining the inclusions that form close to the rind. I had a tough decision on which side to cut since one side had a Dendrite close to the surface and felt it would grind away but the other side I would lose too many of the edge dendrites. I chose the one that might lose the dendrite close to the surface. Once I started grinding and got down to the dome curvature the picture emerged. I then sweated thru the grits hoping that I wouldn't lose this Amazing picture. When on it's side you can see either a Moth Butterfly or dragonfly flying over a field of flowers. If the cab is turned more on the edge the 2 flowers towards the tip actually have a stem and a blossom on each. The wings look like a dragonfly but the body is too fat and looks more like a moth to me. Still a collection keeper cab for me.
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Texas Longhorn that someone found in my slab of Maligano...
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See the longhorn. Also a geological cutaway view of deposits.
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here is one...
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Another...
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Again..
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One more..
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2 beautiful desert scenes, a standing figure, desert scenes with approaching sandstorm.
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here is one...
"If you save your breath I feel a man like you can manage it. And if you don't manage it, you'll die. Only slowly, very slowly old friend."
Every picture tells a story.
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Sorry so slow to add these two. The Willow Creek slab just came off last weekend.
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Is that a mouse in the bottom one?
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First thing Robin and I thought of is a little black cat. I felt better when she saw it.
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Here's a slab of BC Ocean Picture Jasper. I love the river and ocean scenes and the pastel blues in the water. The seaweed covered rocks and the occasional creature in the water. A mineralogical assemblage that results from the carbonatization of serpentinized ultramafic rocks and represents a distinctive alteration suite that is commonly associated with quartz-carbonate lode gold. or Silica Carbonate.
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Some Oregon Picture Jasper, locale unknown, until my picture jasper book comes in...
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A couple of Halloween rocks here.
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Cool! Spirit figure rising out of the water near land. Second one- something with 2 eyes but not as defined as the first one.
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Not mine but posted last week on youtube. Cookie monster agate posted by someone called Dogtooth Media.
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Love those cookie monsters! I have been saving this Bruneau for a special pendant. I won't bias you by stating what it appears like to me, but what does it look like to you?
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It looks like a man in a loin cloth of sorts moving..or one of those monsters come back to wreak havoc on the Earth! ooooo.
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Here's one...what do you see?????
Grey Lace Agate from Calder, Tasmania
p.s..ignore the funny 'white flashes'. I was trying to bounce light by using foil and it didn't quite work. :undecided:
(https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/greatminds/403153736/gray_lace_agate1b_medium2.jpeg)
No guesses????
I see a cockatoo flying over a dried up billabong(billabong is an untouched natural surface that dips into the cab) and my friend saw the snake in the cloud about to clutch the cockie out of the air! :shocked:
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@irockhound I absolutely adore your Montana from the first page. It looks like one of those frilly sea fish cruising over the seabed looking for nomnoms.
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I know this is more for slabs and rough but check out this opal.... :afro:
(https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/greatminds/873592832/Opal_question_medium2.jpg)
No comments? Have you never seen an opal ask a question before?????????
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Those who are familiar with old arcade video games might appreciate this one:
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Go pac man!
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Love it!
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Love those cookie monsters! I have been saving this Bruneau for a special pendant. I won't bias you by stating what it appears like to me, but what does it look like to you?
Looks like a Golem!
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When you are Canadian, everything looks like a maple leaf!
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Definitely a maple leaf even from the southern half I see it. Great piece of Teepee canyon by the way.
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Definitely a maple leaf even from the southern half I see it. Great piece of Teepee canyon by the way.
Found it in a local rock pile of several large estates from the U.S. that were bought and trucked over in the 1980s. Lots of material from the PNW, but also some from FL, NJ, MI, AZ and NM. This would be the first SD material I ever found there.
The skin of the round nodule looks gritty and bumpy, like some thundereggs (you can see a hint of it in the background). This is different from Teepee or Fairburn rough I am seeing online - it all looks river tumbled.
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The interior colors are similar to Dryhead but Dryhead has a Dark Brown Matrix on them and the lighter matrix is Teepee. Take a picture of the backside of one.
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Steve, have a look and let me know what you think. It was a large, round nodule with some bumps.
Could this be Mexican instead?
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Definitely not a dryhead from those pics. I am out of town and our new ranch under construction and when I get home will send some dryhead nodule pics from the outside, I'll stick with the Teepee and teepee can have several rind types.
I guess the other thing may be that the area between Dryhead and Teepee could also have similar agate colorations to the 2 locations. So much hidden material still to be found for sure.