Dr. F.
climber
Retired Climber, SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2011 - 09:50pm PT
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FortMental
Social climber
Albuquerque, NM
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Nov 28, 2011 - 09:55pm PT
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Nice rocks! I made some of those too with an old Smithsonian Museum Crystal Growing Kit...
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Nov 28, 2011 - 09:56pm PT
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Nature: that's cool...post a photo.
The photo I posted above is from an uplifted sea stack named Sunset Rocks (aka Mammoth rocks) on the Sonoma coast near Jenner, CA. It is a popular top roping crag. The rock is highly polished in some spots and has been interpreted as an animal rubbing stone. I didn't believe it at first.
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23566
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Dr. F.
climber
Retired Climber, SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2011 - 10:01pm PT
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You didn't make any of those
Those are all rare Gem Crystals
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Nov 28, 2011 - 10:10pm PT
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Dr F, any of those lab made, or all naturally found?
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Dr. F.
climber
Retired Climber, SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2011 - 04:42pm PT
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WTF??
Those are all natural gem crystals
Here is the history:
They came from the earth, and then the dirt was cleaned off, Not one of them was ever polished or cut.
They were sold as is
Then I bought them,
and then put them on a display base as part of a gem crystal Collection
Then I entered it in the OC Fair, and won 1st place for All Collections
Then took a picture of it, then disassembled it
and put the singles back in the Show case
That display is worth around $2000, I bought them one at a time over 20 years at Rock Shows from Native Country dealers
Close up
Any one want to try and ID Them???
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Aug 27, 2012 - 11:21am PT
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Time to bump this thread again.
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Dr. F.
Ice climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2012 - 09:16am PT
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Working on some more photos, since it's raining
Apatite
Purple and pink are the most desirable color, due to it's rarity
Yellow Apatite is the most common form
I took these with artificial light,
and apparently not as good as the earlier ones I took using natural light
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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OK, the taco is looking a little slow tonight. It must be time for "rock-heads."
I like finding minerals in crystal form "in matrix."
Mostly in the mountains, but I do have a noted weakness for the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show.
Some Tucson show Apatite.
And a cool feldspar & small smoky quartz crystal cluster I found in Idaho in the 1980's.
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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It is very cool. Great collection.
What year did you win at the fair?
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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We have been collecting up here for the last two years. The Oregon coast is fun and it gives me something to do while walking up and down the beach when I am not out climbing something.
Mostly we find agates and jasper and some petrified wood. We have tumbler and polish em up. It's fun and my wife loves it. It's like Christmas every time we open up the tumbler. I can hear it grinding away even as I type this.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Here's a great Tucson Mineral Show rock. The sellers let me photograph it. Price was out of my range.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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This is our haul today. One of the agates my wife found was the size of her fist.
The pile in this picture are un-polished, but they will be awesome when they are tumbled.
This next pic is all the jasper that we found. I kinda like the jasper better. They sure have some good color.
Here are some close ups of some of the agates with a flashlight underneath them to show off the color. This first one is the fist sized agate my wife found.
Another view.
Here are the last of the agates with light under.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Plaidman! Your rocks rock!
Thank you for sharing!
I have found most of my mineral specimans, but I do have a weak moment every now and then at the Tucson Show.
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ClimbingOn
Trad climber
NY
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Plaidman, that "biggest piece of petrified wood we have found" is not petrified wood. Not trying to be a downer, just saying...
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Fritz, are you sure that’s not some sort of mica, like muscovite, with your beryl crystals? Doesn't look like feldspar.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Dec 10, 2012 - 06:17am PT
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ClimbingOn - Ok. What are you saying? If it isn't petrified wood what is it?
Heavy and rock, looks like wood with wood grain makes it petrified wood in my book. If I had a book about petrified wood.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 10, 2012 - 07:25am PT
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Minerals: re your comment: Fritz, are you sure that’s not some sort of mica, like muscovite, with your beryl crystals? Doesn't look like feldspar.
Yes of course it is. I was just testing you.
Really!
I wasn't posting drunk!
Trust me!
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spenchur
climber
Flagstaff/Thousand Oaks
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Dec 10, 2012 - 07:54am PT
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I agree with minerals here, that looks like muscovite. Feldspars don't usually have "sheets" like that, and muscovite often twins perpendicularly like that.
edit: fritz beat me back here.
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ClimbingOn
Trad climber
NY
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Dec 10, 2012 - 05:05pm PT
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Plaidman, What you have is a nice piece of schist, polished by either a stream, beach, or possibly glacier. Yours is a dead ringer for the piece in the middle right of the following photo from a beach in Maine. Even the banding is the same. Petrified wood tends to have a number of different and identifying characteristics.
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