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QueenOfTheShadows
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 you maen geodes, yeah at the gem shows sometimes you can get a large bag of roughly grapfruit sized ones at the silent auctions... they are a nice thing to get when you are just getting started. 
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salaiek
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| Posted: Mon 07 May 2007 8:09 Post subject: Re: Rocks and gems: care/ shows and member collections. |
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There is also a large sho in Marysvill in november too, and i believe one that is comming up in Puyallip too. |
There's a show in Marysville?! x.X Nuuuu... Neeed to gooooo...
Ahem.
Anyways, I've got a modest collection of stones myself. Most of them are polished/tumbled (such as quartz, tigers-eye, the usual), but there's a few that aren't. I can't recall of my stones right now, and I have some hidden in my room somewhere.. >< But I have a piece of Tektite (meteorite), a piece of coal (which I got for christmas- I was thrilled about it XD), and a fairly-sized case with all my tumbled stones in it- quartz, tigers-eye, hematite, malachite, obsidian, and a bunch of unknowns. I have a half-geode somewhere, too. ^^; I have some coloured glass that's supposedly made from Mt. St. Helen's ash, too; one of which I learned how to do an emerald cut on a lapidary with. That was a fun experience.
And apparently there's a number of sites here in Washington where you can find some good sized quartz points. x.X We were supposed to go find one of these places, but never did.. |
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Cyborg Dragon
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| Posted: Mon 07 May 2007 8:28 Post subject: |
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I have a small collection of rocks, most of them from Colorado, some are more shiny then others, though I hadn't added to it in a while.
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VoxDraconis
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| Posted: Mon 07 May 2007 9:30 Post subject: |
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| QueenOfTheShadows wrote: |
I have heard that you should treat amolite and tanzinite as you would opals as well. amolite is givin an aitional rule though: do not attempt further polishing of stone as the color layer is often very thin you can polish it right off. (and the colors are very showey too) |
I can't say that I've heard that one before but then again I don't own either of the mentioned minerals.
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QueenOfTheShadows
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| Posted: Tue 08 May 2007 7:45 Post subject: Re: Rocks and gems: care/ shows and member collections. |
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| salaiek wrote: |
| QueenOfTheShadows wrote: |
There is also a large sho in Marysvill in november too, and i believe one that is comming up in Puyallip too. |
There's a show in Marysville?! x.X Nuuuu... Neeed to gooooo...
Ahem.
Anyways, I've got a modest collection of stones myself. Most of them are polished/tumbled (such as quartz, tigers-eye, the usual), but there's a few that aren't. I can't recall of my stones right now, and I have some hidden in my room somewhere.. >< But I have a piece of Tektite (meteorite), a ...... |
Huh so you live in washington state too?
one minore corection tektites and metorite peices are two dirrerent things. Tektites are inpact glass it is often found with forms syimmlar to lava bombs. They are found arund teh sites of metor impacts. metorites are the chunks of metors that make it to raeths surface. I to have both a metorite and a tektite.
Tanxinite is curently grouing in poupularity most stoes or it are pale blue with violet and even ome read flashes. Amolite is cut from the outer layer of amonite fossils, and even then only those that are found in very specific fossil beads, that if memory serves me correctly, are located in centeral Canada, I can't recall off the top of my head the names of the fossil beds though. XD It was also called "bufflo stone" by the natives.
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VoxDraconis
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I'll have to see if my friend is heading out that way. He's currently in Mexico digging up spiney trilobites.
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salaiek
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| Posted: Tue 08 May 2007 14:34 Post subject: Re: Rocks and gems: care/ shows and member collections. |
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| QueenOfTheShadows wrote: |
Huh so you live in washington state too?
one minore corection tektites and metorite peices are two dirrerent things. Tektites are inpact glass it is often found with forms syimmlar to lava bombs. They are found arund teh sites of metor impacts. metorites are the chunks of metors that make it to raeths surface. I to have both a metorite and a tektite.
Tanxinite is curently grouing in poupularity most stoes or it are pale blue with violet and even ome read flashes. Amolite is cut from the outer layer of amonite fossils, and even then only those that are found in very specific fossil beads, that if memory serves me correctly, are located in centeral Canada, I can't recall off the top of my head the names of the fossil beds though. XD It was also called "bufflo stone" by the natives. |
Yeah, lived in M-ville for 13 years, then moved two years ago. e.e Aaaanyways...
I didn't know that about Tektite. o.o Thanks much for the info. It's been a while since I've looked up info on stones and all. Guess I'll have to get back into that. |
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VoxDraconis
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Hehe I bought myself a nice big lump of Blue John the other day. Its a very pretty rock
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