Ok everyone.....time for some fun!

Here's a cabin fever buster for all the rockhounds....metal and non-metalic rockhounds!

These are 12 cabs hot from the CP lap shop!

First person too identify all 12 in this thread, (material only) wins their choice of two cabs from the prize pic (6 cabs) that will follow this post.

Rules are.....
Contest runs until the end of the month.........ending at Midnight on 3/31/07.

You may enter your guess once and only once!

Your must enter your guess here in this thread........you do have 24 hours to edit
your posts.......but you must use the mark your post as "edited" if you do.

Take your time and use the aloted time frame to do some research.

First post in chronological order (including edits) will win first choice of the prize cabs.
There are 6 prize cabochons so the second poster (chronologically) will get second choice of 2 cabs and then third poster to be correct gets the last two.

Now........for a bit of extra fun!
To win the CP Placer Dirt you must give the correct locality (state only) for the following pieces.
Identify locality for pieces........ 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12.
There is one bag of CP Placer Dirt in this contest so first poster (again by chronologic order) to get those locations right wins the CP Placer Dirt!

We will pay shipping on all prizes.

Have fun with this contest and carefully post your answers!

CP

And here are the 6 prize cabochons.

CP

1, palm wood
2 del norte
3 opal
4 turritella
5 sodalite
6 moss agate
7 carnelia
8 pet wood
9 agate
10 lapis
11 amazonite
12 tigereye

OK here is my shot .........boy did i think long and hard about these lmao

Material Only

01. Sand Stone
02. Del Norte Agate
03. Opal
04. Turritella Fossil
05. Sodalite
06. Agate
07. Petrified Wood
08. Petrified Wood
09. Agate
10. Dino Bone
11. Amazonite
12. Petrified Wood

State Only

01. Arizona
02. Colorado (Del Norte)
06. Colorado
07. Arizona
08. Arizona
11. Colorado
12. Arizona

Only 2 entries........

Gives you two pretty dang good odds!

i have no idea!

8 days left!

Have you browsed your CP forums today?!

CP

1. Quartz Co
2. Del Norte Agate Co
3 Opal
4 Turritella
5 sodalite
6 agate Co
7 Agate Co
8 Del Norte Agate Co
9 agate
10 Lapis
11 Amazonite Co
12 Cornelian Co

You guys did great!

Ok, now for the answers........

1. Petrified Wood - Colorado
2. Agate - Colorado
3. Opal
4. Turritella
5. Sodalite
6. Petrified Wood - Arizona
7. Petrified Wood - Arizona
8. Petrified Wood - Arizona
9. Petrified Wood
10. Dino Bone
11. Amazonite - Colorado
12. Petrified Wood - Arizona

No one got them all right, but we are going to let the 3 closest (1st-3rd) choose 2 each of the 6 prize cabochons, starting with 1st place.

The winners are (all of them!)..........

1st place -ScottKS with 9 correct........and 5 states correct
2nd place -Jim with 7 correct
3rd place -cornwall84 with 5 correct.......and 3 states correct



And you know how we are here at ColoradoProspector..........and just for participating, Im going to let all entries choose a stone guitar pick of their choice
from the Miners Market - Folk Art section (collectors picks excluded).
Thanks for trying guys...It pays off doesnt it?

Post your cabochon choices here please, in the order specified.

A big THANKS to dan and Denise for running this comp if i could have got my agates sorted out from the petrified wood i would have done ok. Must get new glasses. Grin

WOW what a club to belong to. Joe

Thanks Dan and Denise for giving us a chance to hone our eyes to identifying the many different kinds of stone.It was a real eye opener. I learned also that some types of stone has a wide variety of looks.And,when it comes to rocks looks can be decieving. It was fun and I'm looking forward to next time.
Jim (jpolk)

Thank you all, what fun that was!
You guys did better than you think too........

All of the petrified wood, dino bone, and turritella used in this contest (all fossils) are in fact agatized.
But for this contest we were holding you too which type of fossils rather than just saying agates.

See...... you did great! Good work everyone!

We will definately do more contest like these........was alot of fun for everyone!
Thanks again to you all!

CP

Well, since the forum had a couple errors the day this ended.....
The prizes were chosen in the chat room and ended up going to.....

Scott chose cabs B & E
Jim chose cabs C & D
Alan then got A & F

With MrsCP's adding their choice of guitar picks from the Miners Market......
NICE SCORE YA'LL!!!!

Next one will be just as fun! Thanks again everyone.


CP

The stones arrived today ( april 11) and they are really nice.

A big thanks to you both.
best wishes

Our pleasure!