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Itsandbits

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Feldspar cabs
« on: June 29, 2015, 08:23:46 AM »
My daughter has been up visiting for the last few days so we've been busy rockhounding and stuff.
her fording a creek which I'd wanted to look at for a while so we went there to escape the heat on Friday.

yesterday we went up to the old lime stone mine to collect quartz crystal; slim pickings because it is a well known site but large; up to 2ft. terminated crystal  are known from here when the mine was operating 30 yrs. ago. Now it is a sea of white quartz dump piles scattered in the undergrowth and pine/spruce forest. It had to have been 120F in the open areas we were breaking quartz looking for crystals; and blazing sun.....
A couple of cabochons of 40mm. feldspar my buddy showed me at his place where we went for a couple of cool ones after the trip, that he made from material from another local site
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Re: Feldspar cabs
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2015, 11:43:55 AM »
Those feldspar crystals are much more rectangular then the average.If the quartz crystal site has clear quartz that looks fuzzy  or hazy it could be good for cutting star stones. I keep looking but the San Diego area is the only place I am aware of in North America where sar quartz is found. Nice to get out with my daughter and I am sure it was nice to share with her on that hot day. Keep your hat on.
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Re: Feldspar cabs
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2015, 03:17:04 PM »
yeah, those feldspars are beautys Frank, did you see the size of those cabs? 40mm, so those crystals are huge!!! It was way too hot to put much effort into busting quartz rock up after hiking in to the old mine site but I'm going back up on a cooler day and tyring again; biggest we found was a 3cm. single terminated I found and I'm just cleaning them right now to see what's there.
On another subject Frank, I am missing the reply and quote button from your rockhounding picnic post at Joshua"s so I can't put my two cents in; 1 1/2 in Canadian money LOL
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Re: Feldspar cabs
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2015, 05:39:35 PM »
Quote from: Itsandbits on June 29, 2015, 03:17:04 PM
On another subject Frank, I am missing the reply and quote button from your rockhounding picnic post at Joshua"s so I can't put my two cents in; 1 1/2 in Canadian money LOL

Hrm....
Missing buttons?  That's odd.  I know Phish did some work recently....
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Re: Feldspar cabs
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2015, 06:12:48 PM »
i have this profile set just as you have yours itsandbits.
I dont know what the hay is going on.
The quote and reply are on top and bottom still and quote in each reply from all the members.
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Re: Feldspar cabs
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2015, 09:16:18 AM »
I didn't have those buttons for any of that post but I went back late last night and they were there?? All fixed somehow. All the other posts were working fine.
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Re: Feldspar cabs
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2015, 09:19:30 AM »
Frank, you'll notice my daughter wasn't carrying a 75lb. pack of rocks LOL  although she could have used it to keep her footing. Here's the largest quartz point I found at the old mine site; clear at the top and milky going into the quartz matrix
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Re: Feldspar cabs
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2015, 06:54:51 PM »
YOU NEED NEW GLOVES WOMAN!!!!
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Re: Feldspar cabs
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2015, 08:41:51 PM »
Quote from: Phishisgroovin on June 30, 2015, 06:54:51 PM
YOU NEED NEW GLOVES WOMAN!!!!
LOL, I have a half dozen pair with the same disease LOL wornoutitis I think they call it
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