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  Feb 7 2004, 12:11 PM
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 Master Mucker!  Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4  |
Ok everyone.. :)
This is a great specimen!! It weighs in at about 15 pounds. Can you identify this?    :D
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 Feb 7 2004, 01:51 PM
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 Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: 3-December 03 From: northern california(the great state of jefferson!!) Member No.: 40 |
 I'm pretty sure this is wrong seeing as though I didn't take the time to do more than just guess...Obsidian Thats too easy so it must be wrong...dangit Denise...now I'm gonna end up surfin the sites again until I find it!! I just wanted to throw that obsidian at ya because if it took me 3 days to find out it WAS obsidian I woulda been mad because it was my first guess!! take care... Kriss  PS...oh yea...did ya get alot of snow???????? -------------------- "The original point and click interface was a Smith and Wesson."
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Feb 7 2004, 05:58 PM
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 Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 7-December 03 From: Western Slope, Colorado Member No.: 45 |
Chert or Chalcedony AKA agate, jasper, flint
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Feb 8 2004, 08:20 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
:) Sorry..........Nope, Nope and Nope. :) ^_^ :D
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Feb 8 2004, 01:17 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 7-December 03 From: Western Slope, Colorado Member No.: 45 |
biotite
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Feb 8 2004, 06:47 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 20-December 03 Member No.: 56 |
:o :o :o Whoa , Denise , where the heck did you find that ? Get rid of it !!!
That's my old kidneystone ! I thought I burried that in a safe place !!!  :(
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Feb 8 2004, 09:27 PM
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 Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 2-February 04 From: Mesa Arizona Member No.: 81 |
psilomelane? also known as puddingstone
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Feb 8 2004, 09:30 PM
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 Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
OUCH!
:D :D :o That would be one serious kidney stone DB! Sorry Sammy not Biotite...... :) Sorry sgaolson not Pudding stone either....... :) CP -------------------- CP-Owner/Administrator
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Feb 9 2004, 02:11 PM
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 Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 434 Joined: 29-November 03 From: Eastern Oregon Goldfields and SW Idaho, too Member No.: 25 |
taxpayer's cerebral cortex April 15, 11:49PM PST?
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Feb 9 2004, 03:41 PM
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russau Group: Members Posts: 2,841 Joined: 4-December 03 From: st.louis missouri Member No.: 43 |
i think megan is pretty close to the correct answer! haha
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Feb 9 2004, 07:11 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 434 Joined: 29-November 03 From: Eastern Oregon Goldfields and SW Idaho, too Member No.: 25 |
Here's an official guess: (okay make it 2)
 a boytriodial red jadeite, or perhaps a boytriodial jasper or jasp agate. It does not appear to be conchoidal from the one view we have here, which is how a guess of obsidian is ruled out. If I'm correct and we don't know that yet, it has been found in specific boulders along the california beaches near a town that sounds something like Humbolt or Humble or something close. FINGERS Crossed here... |
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Feb 11 2004, 09:14 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
GROSS Russ!!! :o
, but very funny. :D ;) :D :D Funny gold tutor.But on the serious side for your guesses......... Botryoidal red jadeiteis a very good guess, but not correct. ;) But I will tell you that you have the right formation. Stay on the trail gold tutor :D :P, and you'll be there in no time. :) Denise :) -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
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Feb 16 2004, 12:47 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Are we giving up so easily??? <_< :P :)
OK........here's another hint. ^_^ Is often used as a pigment in paints. :D ;)
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Feb 16 2004, 06:36 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 20-December 03 Member No.: 56 |
Hi Denise , is this a source of red ochre ?
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Feb 16 2004, 11:03 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 7-December 03 From: Western Slope, Colorado Member No.: 45 |
Limonite
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