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Sandsave

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Urban Rockhounding
« on: October 23, 2016, 06:01:45 PM »
Did a little urban Rockhounding Saturday, a good friend of mine wanted to clean out part of his rock pile.picked up some nice sphere material.
Zebra marble 120lbs
Birdseye Marble 85lbs
Escalante Pet Wood 90lbs
White Quartz 80lbs
Mookaite Jasper 50lbs
Yellow Feather Jasper 45lbs
Brianhead Agate 20lbs
Unknown 10lbs
Mahogany Obsidian 5lbs each
A couple are weathered , the escalante and the brianhead I think I can get a few spheres from them.

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Re: Urban Rockhounding
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2016, 06:26:38 PM »
The next to last picture looks like a piece of weathered Palm root from the circular depressions in the stone.  A nice batch of material sure to make some good spheres.  I had gone to a free rock giveaway a couple months back and when I went into the back yard where the bigger material was there were 2 very large pieces of Crestmore Quarry Blue Calcite.  Way too big for my 18" saw and my 24 is in San Diego and never hooked up.  Never know what treasures lie in the rock piles.  Grats
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Re: Urban Rockhounding
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2016, 07:26:55 PM »
Latch onto those hunks of Crestmore blue if you can. Unless they've reopened the mine to collecting, that stuff is getting hard to come by.
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Re: Urban Rockhounding
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2016, 07:39:45 PM »
Great score.  You got some cool stuff there.
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Jhon P

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Re: Urban Rockhounding
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2016, 06:45:25 AM »
Great score. That should keep you busy through the winter
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Re: Urban Rockhounding
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2016, 09:54:53 AM »
I hope you grabbed that little piece of snow flake obsidian.
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Re: Urban Rockhounding
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2016, 05:36:54 PM »
Everything in the pictures is in my rock pile now. I have bunch of cubes cut now, I need to get started on these, I need a couple more for jhon's next shipment, he has one of everything I have cut already.
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