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Greybeard
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,247
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The second stone I collected was the jasper. This is beautiful stone, and made into fine jewlery from time to time. Some of the pieces I collected were agate quality, and I wish I had lapidary equipment to polish some.
Most of these stones are very close in color, being in the reds and greens. Some of them are jadite and serpintine. The orange color that shows up in the photo's is the clay mud that they were buried in. I pryed these from an eroded cliff 35' above the crashing waves. The waves had eroded the land exposing the buried stones. At high tide the area is not accessable. I will be cleaning these stones with wire brush and solvent later this week.
The last stone, the red one with the fantastic shape, could be cut and make a magnificent focal point island in the tray. We will see..
The last type of stone I collected was a type of layered sandstone. It was real nice while in the large formations at the beach, but crumbled while taking smaller samples. I did manage to get some larger pieces, but have not unpacked them from the newspaper yet.
Stay tuned this February when I get started on this project. I will post all the particulars here first.
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