Dr. F.
Ice climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2012 - 05:16pm PT
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Me and my wife, who loves collecting rocks more than anything
went to Holbrook Arizona in Sept. and found `400 lbs of awesome agatized wood, just outside the Petrified Forest National Park, which we sell along with our cactus at cactus shows.
And what was really cool, is that we found this Petrified Wood Ant Fines Sand, I scooped up some to use on our plants as a top dressing.
The Blue apatite is from Madagascar
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Dec 16, 2012 - 06:41pm PT
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Our newest batch of polished rocks. I sure love these things. The reds are my
favorites. The jasper has so much color. We got some good agates too.
Here are three shots of the same red jasper mix.
This is one of my favorite agates
And we are throwing in another load. This process will take 2 months of grinding and tumbling.
Why is patience a virtue?
Because not many people have it.
Tumbling rocks is an exercise of patience in the extreme.
Another would be watching me climb.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Dec 16, 2012 - 10:22pm PT
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A couple more pics.
This first one is a banded agate.
Sure isn't easy getting photos of these gems with the camera that I have.
Also I aint much of a photographer.
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toadgas
Trad climber
los angeles
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Dec 16, 2012 - 10:44pm PT
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im fascinated by what cmac calls the "aplite" dike on Eichorn Pinnacle
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Dec 16, 2012 - 10:46pm PT
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im fascinated by what cmac calls the "aplite" dike on Eichorn Pinnacle
Please elaborate. Chris Mac? and what is he talking about?
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Dr. F.
Ice climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2013 - 08:19am PT
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"aplite" dikes, such as found on Eichorn Pinnacle often have smokey quartz and feldspar crystals, along with muscovite.
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Dr. F.
Ice climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2013 - 08:22am PT
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Re did some of the Apatite photos
Blue from Madagascar
Purple from Pakistan
Yellow, various location
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Jan 20, 2013 - 09:44am PT
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I was going to say... I'm a climber and a Geologist, and I don't have a rock collection...
Then I realized... I have rocks from Fontainebleau, Monsant, Stanage, Hueco, and other areas that I have been lugging around for 15 years.
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locker
Social climber
state of Kumbaya...
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Jan 20, 2013 - 09:46am PT
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What a MEAN thing to write...
"Plaidman, What you have is a nice piece of schist"...
;-)
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jan 20, 2013 - 11:44am PT
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But Locker it is good schist!
Seriously our last few outings have been really good. We have to get-em polished up. When we do there should be some real gems in there.
We are on track to find some green agates in a new area we are going to get to as soon as there is a low enough low tide.
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Dr. F.
Ice climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2013 - 05:43pm PT
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Oh, I love a good schist!!
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Dr. F.
Ice climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2013 - 05:46pm PT
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Scapolite collection
Purple is from Pakistan
Some Aquamarine, also from Pakistan
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Here is my new passion. Take the rocks I have polished and do something with em. I am really liking doing the wire wrap on the rocks. It is meditative and I seem to have the knack for it.
Plaid
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Here's my little collection. Mostly samples of Sierra granite and volcanic rock (obsidian) collected from road cuts and stream beds. One hunk of West Virginia coal. And the shale samples are from the Wadi Rum in Jordan.
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Dr. F.
Big Wall climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2013 - 07:47pm PT
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Prehnite balls, a zeolite
Close up, with Epidote inclusions
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sure has collected a big pile of Leaverite.
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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