Jadeite possibly ?

I am a rouck hound but know 1% of what they are. I just grab what I find interesting and went to lapidary shops to purchase my slabs to cut into pieces for cabs,etc.. I wish to someday go to AZ or NM on a turquoise hunt

I did find some small desert sandstone boulders filled with holes and sea shells in some of the openings. The shells looked like pistaschio nuts ?

 

That's interesting about not taking rocks off the beach. Here you can't take rocks from National Parks etc. so I guess it's all about who owns/controls the shoreline.

 

WOW I love your trilobite and the amber.

 

Here are some of the semi precious stones I have collected over the years to make my jewelry. In one of the containers you will see an amber blob but no insect.

 

I hope you don't mind my hijacking your thread Davey, I am on a roll Here are some rocks I keep outdoors. I watered them so you could see the colors. When they are cut and polished then the color remains. I just saw my sandstones have all the sea shells missing? I wonder if the critters got em? I have some geodes that I cut and the ones that were not crystelized I cut into slabs. Also petrified wood,petrified sea snails,jet,lots of agate and a honkin piece of rose quartz,etc.

 

I LOVED LOOKING AT YOUR ROCK COLLECTIONS!

Shiloh, Your rocks are so well organized!

If the seashells "disappeared" from stone exposed to fresh water, it could be that they became unstable when exposed to fresh water.

I was a kid when I discovered I could not keep a seashell inside of my freshwater aquarium tank because it dissolved..!

I still have large cans of beautiful seashells from the 1960s Atlantic Ocean family trips and some of my old rock collection. I'd like to find a home for the rest of my coral and the reef salt water aquarium too but that's not something I can ship!

 

Hi anti, the sea shells have been in my sandstone holes for years. I used to keep them stored in the garage. Since I have all the rocks in a screen container outside, I think something took them They were the size of pistashios.

 

Wow -- love all the rocks and love Davey's green stones, chert or whatever. What is it with rocks? Ya just gotta pick them up! I'm prone to taking a few rocks whenever I go beachcombing. I want to find a fossil -- haven't yet, but will maybe take rock hunting more seriously when I retire...maybe... I do have a rock polisher which is fun.

 

Rock polisher? You mean a tumbler?

 

Yes, a tumbler. Lots of fun, but it takes a while to get results!

 

I like those trilobites as well. Sometimes I look at the ones available on eBay. Some remarkable specimens come from Morocco. (And even fossils get faked.)

I never found a whole trilobite. Apparently they molted - like crabs - and all I've ever found are fragments:


I have this beautiful fossil horn coral:


These are pink dolomite crystal with gypsum:


Sphalerite crystals ( a zinc ore - very small):




This is chalcopyrite on talc. This was collected from a rock dump at a talc mine. (I remember someone at the mine saying that the pyrites were a problem as they stained the talc.):


And this is a piece of slag I picked up from a mine somewhere. I just liked the flow pattern:


I have other crystal specimens I've bought here and there, but the above are pieces I collected myself.

 

Ooooh, Bob, those are great!

 

Meteorite:

 

Certainly looks like it's been through a lot of heat!

 

Hi, my first post on this board -- by chance I am reading Elizabeth Kolbert's Sixth Extinction and am on the ammonite chapter. Really fascinating. They went out with the Yucatan asteroid.

 

There's another book I should read...

 

Hi Judy,
Welcome. Ricky and I have settled in here fine. How is Binky?
greg

 

Hi Greg, Hi Wendy, Hi Davey, etc.! Hope everyone is doing really well. It's so nice to have this Board.
Binky is fine, still slimmed down, but Scrushy (in the basket) got fat. They both make us laugh, especially in summer when they lie on their backs airing their pits.
I just started selling a couple of things on Ebay after about 6 months off... my cousins gave me a few things to sell for them. It's been a good break.