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re: Any collectors of gems/minerals/crystals on here? Show your collections.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 6:30 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 3/27/21 at 6:30 pm to fr33manator
Had a great haul in Pigeon Forge not long ago.
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Posted on 3/27/21 at 6:50 pm to Armymann50
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Lavender Amethyst on Quartz that's all
Pics?
Posted on 3/27/21 at 7:09 pm to fr33manator
Do salt lava lamps count? You gonna have Kibble’s posting pics.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 7:23 pm to fr33manator
I have a nice big cut slab of agate with crystals inside, various pieces of geodes, faceted aquas, quartz and large polished spheres of calcite, apatite and azurite, and some petrified wood.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 7:25 pm to fr33manator
I have a decent collection that was my dad's. I photographed and plan on setting them up in a shadow box type thing for my daughter.
Link to album
Link to album
Posted on 3/27/21 at 7:37 pm to High C
Sleestacks!!!!
Posted on 3/27/21 at 7:57 pm to fr33manator
Beautiful collection. I’m fascinated with rocks.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 8:18 pm to fr33manator
Some will remember me posting the story of my Space rock. Here it is again.
On Saturday night, August 29, 1959, a meteorite hit the medical arts building in Jackson, Mississippi. Specifically, it hit a corner of one of the granite panels on the bottom floor of the west side of the building
and then passed through a plate glass window of a pharmaceutical supply company (Abar's Pharmaceutical Company).
It smashed into the floor and shattered into maybe 40 pieces before imbedding in the wall of the far side of the office.
The alarms in Abar's went off and the night watchman called my Father, who was building manager of the building, which was owned by the Baptist Hospital. When my dad arrived and saw the damage, the police were called. They confiscated one piece and some quantity of small fragments from the meteorite. My dad got the biggest piece.
For over 60 years, it has lived in a Kodak 35 mm film can.
It is mostly Nickle Iron and shows the fragmentation lines and evidence of melting.
The strike was reported in the Clarion Ledger News Paper two days later.
I guess the most reasonable answer for where it came from is an asteroid. There were not really any satellites in orbit in 1959 to fall out of orbit and strike the ground.
The last time I shared this, I mentioned one professor at Millsaps College in Jackson asked to borrow the stone for analysis a year or so after the strike. After almost a year Dad managed to get it back after many phone calls, several visits and an actual threat of violence if it was not returned. Shows how much you can trust a college professor.
I have never showed it to anyone who didn't want it.
On Saturday night, August 29, 1959, a meteorite hit the medical arts building in Jackson, Mississippi. Specifically, it hit a corner of one of the granite panels on the bottom floor of the west side of the building
and then passed through a plate glass window of a pharmaceutical supply company (Abar's Pharmaceutical Company).
It smashed into the floor and shattered into maybe 40 pieces before imbedding in the wall of the far side of the office.
The alarms in Abar's went off and the night watchman called my Father, who was building manager of the building, which was owned by the Baptist Hospital. When my dad arrived and saw the damage, the police were called. They confiscated one piece and some quantity of small fragments from the meteorite. My dad got the biggest piece.
For over 60 years, it has lived in a Kodak 35 mm film can.
It is mostly Nickle Iron and shows the fragmentation lines and evidence of melting.
The strike was reported in the Clarion Ledger News Paper two days later.
I guess the most reasonable answer for where it came from is an asteroid. There were not really any satellites in orbit in 1959 to fall out of orbit and strike the ground.
The last time I shared this, I mentioned one professor at Millsaps College in Jackson asked to borrow the stone for analysis a year or so after the strike. After almost a year Dad managed to get it back after many phone calls, several visits and an actual threat of violence if it was not returned. Shows how much you can trust a college professor.
I have never showed it to anyone who didn't want it.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 8:23 pm to MeridianDog
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I have never showed it to anyone who didn't want it.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 8:38 pm to MeridianDog
quote:Okay, that story rocks.
MeridianDog
Posted on 3/27/21 at 8:39 pm to MeridianDog
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I have never showed it to anyone who didn't want it
Still holds true. It’s an amazing piece and really just a fascination. A piece of space rock, totally alien to our world.
how much you want for it?
Posted on 3/27/21 at 8:58 pm to fr33manator
The big stuff is nice. There’s a really great shop in Breckinridge with huge pieces.
I collect smaller things, mostly uncut. I have about 2 pounds of uncut alexandrite of varying sizes and color. My second favorite, but I have a ton, is opalized sandstone from Louisiana.
I collect smaller things, mostly uncut. I have about 2 pounds of uncut alexandrite of varying sizes and color. My second favorite, but I have a ton, is opalized sandstone from Louisiana.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 9:14 pm to fr33manator
Wow, very nice. Oddly enough I’ve been looking for a few pieces myself. Went on EBay and most of the large pieces are all sourced out of China. I thought that odd. Are there any US dealers selling online?
Posted on 3/27/21 at 9:20 pm to fr33manator
Yep, I go to those and usually buy 2 to 3 pieces. Really nice guy. In fact, I shot him an email the other day to help with identification and location of some pieces I got from him.
I've been hoping he has some vera cruz amethyst clusters but he only has the points.
Either way, I'll be there Saturday morning.
I've been hoping he has some vera cruz amethyst clusters but he only has the points.
Either way, I'll be there Saturday morning.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 9:23 pm to shawnlsu
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I have a decent collection that was my dad's
Your pops had some nice stuff.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 9:28 pm to fr33manator
Here are some other "rocks" I have.
Geodes:
Looks like a little potato doesn't it.
It is a popped geode from India - Inside:
Sparkles are quartz:
These came from south of Mumbai (Bombay). I understand there are fields you can just pick them up off the ground.
Each of those little paper wrapped things is a popped geode. At one time, I had maybe a hundred. Need to go buy some more.
Some are bigger, and some smaller. All are pretty.
I have this bag,, which is where the larger one in the previous photo came from. I popped it, but was not happy with the results, so I have held these for several years, still trying to figure out how to pop them properly.
I'm sure you guys know the sand bars on the Mississippi are treasure troves for fossil hunters. I have many many we picked up. My sons are in their 40s now, and Grandsons too old to care any more. I need to go back by myself, or drag the wife (MHNBPF). The oldest grandson found an ankle bone from a Giant Sloth that is now in the Mississippi Natural History Museum. Most northern location the bones have been located. Interesting, since the fossil bone washed to the sandbar from somewhere much father north than where he found it. I have a photo of it I will try to locate and will post it when I find it. When he donated it, they told him, because of his find, they would have to redraw the range map for that creature
Here are others:
Geodes:
Looks like a little potato doesn't it.
It is a popped geode from India - Inside:
Sparkles are quartz:
These came from south of Mumbai (Bombay). I understand there are fields you can just pick them up off the ground.
Each of those little paper wrapped things is a popped geode. At one time, I had maybe a hundred. Need to go buy some more.
Some are bigger, and some smaller. All are pretty.
I have this bag,, which is where the larger one in the previous photo came from. I popped it, but was not happy with the results, so I have held these for several years, still trying to figure out how to pop them properly.
I'm sure you guys know the sand bars on the Mississippi are treasure troves for fossil hunters. I have many many we picked up. My sons are in their 40s now, and Grandsons too old to care any more. I need to go back by myself, or drag the wife (MHNBPF). The oldest grandson found an ankle bone from a Giant Sloth that is now in the Mississippi Natural History Museum. Most northern location the bones have been located. Interesting, since the fossil bone washed to the sandbar from somewhere much father north than where he found it. I have a photo of it I will try to locate and will post it when I find it. When he donated it, they told him, because of his find, they would have to redraw the range map for that creature
Here are others:
This post was edited on 3/27/21 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 3/27/21 at 9:57 pm to MeridianDog
We all have situations we regret. The wife and I were at the Petrified Forest National Park in Northeastern Arizona a few years back. Incredible place with thousands of pieces of petrified wood all over the place. Hard to not pick up a souvenir. what kept me from getting one is the jail time for taking anything from the park. Then as we left, we passed a big fenced lot down the road a piece that must have had 5,000 pieces for sale, some maybe 10 feet long and several thousand pounds.
What do I regret? I had the money, we were in my truck, and didn't stop to buy me a great big slab of a petrified tree.
Here are some photos from the national park.
What do I regret? I had the money, we were in my truck, and didn't stop to buy me a great big slab of a petrified tree.
Here are some photos from the national park.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 11:09 pm to MeridianDog
Great story and awesome piece. I’d love to have a meteorite fragment.
Posted on 3/27/21 at 11:27 pm to shawnlsu
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have a decent collection that was my dad's
Nice rocks
Posted on 3/28/21 at 12:12 am to MeridianDog
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so I have held these for several years, still trying to figure out how to pop them properly.
Have you tried using a rock saw?
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