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Re: Rocks collected from PopPop Point, Wake County NC
Reply #105 - May 26th, 2014 at 3:58pm
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and here they are all wet...
  

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Re: Rocks collected from PopPop Point, Wake County NC
Reply #106 - May 26th, 2014 at 3:59pm
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and one of my favorites that I think is Amethyst!
  

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Re: Rocks collected from PopPop Point, Wake County NC
Reply #107 - May 26th, 2014 at 9:21pm
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Wow. You just keep finding better stuff. Amethyst color is nice!
  
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Re: Rocks collected from PopPop Point, Wake County NC
Reply #108 - May 26th, 2014 at 9:24pm
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Fourth pic down, far left: petrified wood?  Sure looks like it came off a cord of firewood.
  
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Re: Rocks collected from PopPop Point, Wake County NC
Reply #109 - May 26th, 2014 at 9:35pm
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Is some of this stream tumbled quartz points?  I think I'm seeing some shapes.  Also like the cream colored rock with the gray-green veining. And amother piece showing a yellow gemmy end?
  
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Reply #110 - May 27th, 2014 at 11:57am
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A very nice lithic garden shrine.  Your a busy collector!  Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Rocks collected from PopPop Point, Wake County NC
Reply #111 - May 27th, 2014 at 2:51pm
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Hi,

Thanks Scott.

Yep, Tim4D, I do have about 20 pieces of stream tumbled quartz on the table.  I've been thinking that yellow stuff was from the clay, so I've cleaned and cleaned those yellowish stones and what yellow is left is real something or the other.

I don't know it's petrified wood or not.  Is there a test or easy way to tell other than looking at it and saying it looks like wood but is hard as a rock?  Scoitt - maybe we need a separate section for petrified wood pics. Smiley

I did sneak in a real gem in the pics in addition to the Amethyst - hopefully I'll have more info to share about it by the end of summer.

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Reply #112 - Jun 8th, 2014 at 8:38pm
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Found this surface find today.  The source must be near!
Smoky Tessin Habit
5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
  

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Reply #113 - Jun 8th, 2014 at 9:01pm
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Nice one Scott!  Hope there are more to find.
  
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Reply #114 - Jun 9th, 2014 at 9:11am
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Nice find Scott, thanks for sharing.  May the energy of the crystal direct you to the source to find more!
  
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Reply #115 - Jun 10th, 2014 at 1:56pm
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Hi,

Experimenting with my camera...pics look fine on my PC - then get huge and turns fuzzy when I load them... Maybe this will be better.

Joe found this in Mine Creek and left it with me to add to my PopPop Point collection.

I think he said it was Kyanite?  If so, it's some powerful rock per this link:

http://healing.about.com/od/gemstonesaz/p/p_kyanite.htm


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Reply #116 - Jun 26th, 2014 at 10:18am
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Needed to take a break from housework the other day so
I decided to go bust on some of the quartz boulders that
they were unearthing at a site right up the street.
There were vugs with crystals visible on the outside of the boulders
but most of them were attached to the walls of the vug and
could not be removed without damage.
So I thought by busting the whole boulder maybe a few whole crystals would shake out.
Well, that didn't happen so much, but I did come across this
vug with quartz drusy epimorphs of some mineral no longer present.
  

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Reply #117 - Jun 27th, 2014 at 12:48pm
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Quartz pseudomorph after igloo.
  

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Reply #118 - Jun 28th, 2014 at 1:21am
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I like it! Grin
So yes, would this be an epimorph or psuedo, or...?
  
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Reply #119 - Jun 28th, 2014 at 5:57pm
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Joe you are up in the middle of the night!! Smiley Smiley
  
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