Scott's Rock Shop Options

[ScottKS]

Here is some pictures of my rock shop in progress.....these pics are the before am still decideing if i want to set it all back up because everything in the boxes in that cornor use to be on those shelfs on the wall....as u can see dad has his lil chopper still in there and that is a hazard hopefully we will get that out this weekend so i will have more room to play with....the last pic is a pic of my lapidary or (PDQ as it says on the front....not sure yet what that stands for but it is a lil table top lapidary) right now it is setup for faceting (without the disk in the platform) and drilling right below that on the left side and a lil polishing wheel on the left and then the trim saw on the right on the motor. This is just the begining........there will be more

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[ScottKS]

Here is a pic of all the Pop Rocks i have........as you can see looks like i have mostly males and males are harder to find.......that one half looks to be a female....and all the lil ones to the right was polished in the tumbler....you can't really see it in the pic but all them tumbled ones are see threw and do look exactly like the cab i did........i could be wrong about the cab though...it wasn't marked....i took a guess but with the research i just did i'm sure that's what it is...only other rock guess that i can think of that it could be is Apache tear maybe??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_tears

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boji_stone

Ok sorry after reading that last article i kinda understand now..... .......so i guess i should have been calling them Boji Stones (maybe)........i just have always called them Pop Rocks.....but "Kansas Pop Rocks" have the exact same mineral make-up or offer the seemingly magnetic properties as true Boji® Stones offer.....soooo i'm not too far off.........here before winter i'm hopeing to go to where they are found...my aunt lives in Scott City and i use to spend some time at the Smoky Hill Chalk Cliffs...can also find fossils there too like sharks teeth....so i know that mound is in that area somewhere.

Here is some sites of the Chalk Cliffs

http://www.washburn.edu/cas/art/cyoho/arch...s/pyramids.html

http://www.naturalkansas.org/monument.htm

http://www.kansastravel.org/monumentrocks.htm

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