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Let's Rock => Rockhounding Tips, Maps, Trips Etc. => Topic started by: Itsandbits on March 29, 2015, 02:54:09 PM

Title: Buse lake blue
Post by: Itsandbits on March 29, 2015, 02:54:09 PM

Figured I'd pick on something easy today after getting skunked at the old Disdero Robbins range dig so I spent the morning acting like a gopher and came up with this batch showing various shades of blue, I left a bunch of clear and so light of blue It wasn't worth packing out behind. I'm having second thoughts about one piece I left because I think if I convexed the back of a small cab I could get more blue out of it by reflecting the light back out the top. Oh well, it'll still be there for another time....
 (https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YfBRDsEIU2k/VRhyY00CI8I/AAAAAAAASHg/2R4P8L_WNwg/w552-h735-no/IMG_20150329_135820.jpg)

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: ToTheSummit on March 29, 2015, 03:50:19 PM

I just saw this on Facebook a few minutes before popping in here.  Nice blue, I like! :icon_thumleft:

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: lithicbeads on March 29, 2015, 05:04:17 PM

It will be fun figuring these pieces out. I love this stuff.

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Itsandbits on March 29, 2015, 05:50:33 PM

Thanks Frank and TTS, I posted it here first :) The botryoidal drusey one in the centre is a beauty and the big plate on the bottom right is over an inch thick and weighs close to a pound 1/2 so I think I've got a bit of material to work the bugs out; not that I want to waste any of this :) That square one in the centre is the palest blue but it is such a unique shape I had to take it.

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Gergis on March 29, 2015, 06:00:11 PM

Love me some blue agate!

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Itsandbits on March 29, 2015, 06:24:23 PM

I hear through the grapevine there is a place pretty close to you in OR that produces some pretty fine material too :)

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: MrsWTownsend on March 29, 2015, 09:36:30 PM

Great haul!  I am diggin' the square one too- that is a fun piece.  The color is really nice, you done good.

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Minkos61 on March 29, 2015, 11:05:13 PM

Just love that material I got to get down that way one of these days. :coffee2:

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Itsandbits on March 30, 2015, 04:54:32 PM

Like I say Ernie, anytime you're down....
a piece of the blue I am working on, it is 25mm x 17mm and is the lightest of the blue pieces; such a delicate shade of blue; I've got to give some of this to a faceter, I know they would be a lot more brutal than I am.... now on to the resin wheels for a polish of some sort :) I know I'm not going to do the material justice.
 (https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ipRo-xCM3eI/VRnen5WOJ2I/AAAAAAAASMk/cSrwa-CVAz0/w552-h735-no/IMG_20150330_163444.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6_6TZ7ip188/VRnekdffQyI/AAAAAAAASMM/pkvHu-XMhP8/w980-h735-no/IMG_20150330_163717.jpg)

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Bentiron on March 30, 2015, 05:24:56 PM

That is sure pretty material,WOW! :WEEEE:

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Itsandbits on March 30, 2015, 06:31:11 PM

Thanks Bent
I buffed it up as best I could with what I have; this is at 300 on the diamond resin wheels, thanks for looking, I guess I'm going to call this my slumped cushion cut....
Edited to correct; it is 3000 grit on the diamond resin wheels.....
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-YlKN5Lx1vFk/VRn2jWB9PGI/AAAAAAAASP4/a3zvpV0yegE/w980-h735-no/IMG_20150330_181538.jpg)
backlit
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UHyWBzo9GMA/VRn2gHQm8XI/AAAAAAAASPg/6UvKHeeEQDE/w980-h735-no/IMG_20150330_181618.jpg)
another
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nk3FXeac3fw/VRn2dLvS87I/AAAAAAAASPI/nN7Y0VqtBdA/w980-h735-no/IMG_20150330_181659.jpg)

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: lithicbeads on March 30, 2015, 07:55:58 PM

I think lovely is the appropriate word!

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Itsandbits on March 30, 2015, 08:56:44 PM

Thanks Frank, I just wish my skills were up to the material; oh well, practice, practice, practice....

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Gergis on March 30, 2015, 09:05:17 PM

Looks like your skills are quite awesome to me! ;-)

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Minkos61 on March 30, 2015, 11:06:47 PM

Quote from: Gergis on March 30, 2015, 09:05:17 PM

Looks like your skills are quite awesome to me! ;-)

Yup Gergis nailed it.  :icon_thumleft:

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: Itsandbits on March 30, 2015, 11:29:45 PM

Thanks guys, I appreciate it. I really should have put this one on a stick though; that's why I called it a "slumped cushion" cut :)

Title: Re: Buse lake blue
Post by: seejey on March 31, 2015, 02:12:42 AM

Wow. Very nice material to work with. I love colour.

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