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« Thread Started on Nov 7, 2009, 12:49pm »
Looking over the forum it seems everyone is more into Minerals. Currently I don't collect or sell them, I'm more into Jasper's and Agate's, but I do enjoy and appreciate Minerals too. I'm trying to educate myself more about them and the motivations behind which ones are most sought after. This forum has really been helping...thank you. Sometime in the future I'll be posting my own "finds". Until then perhaps you can enjoy ones I've gotten permission to take pictures of that others own.
Recently I was at the Denver show buying and networking, I took a good deal of pictures of Minerals. I did know about some of them and others I thought were just beautiful in my eyes. Here's one. More coming. Rhodo from the Sunnywood collection, Bill and Elsie Stone.

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« Reply #1 on Nov 7, 2009, 2:58pm »
That piece of rhotochrocite has been around a long time and I have been lucky enough to touch it 2 times. ::) Unfortunately the Sweet Home mine it came from in Alma Colo. is closed as is the California on my Mt Antero (shown in my avatar pic to the left) also had some specimens, :o I have been told. I think 4cornersrocks has some in his collection. ;D I know he has rhodonite. Pretty interesting also.

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« Reply #2 on Nov 7, 2009, 8:47pm »
Both rhodonite and rhodocrosite are found in some of the mines around Butte, Montana. We were lucky enough to collect in tailings of one and found both minerals. The rhodocrosite was massive, not individual crystals but lovely to slice and display. The mountain just SE of my house is full of rhodonite. We have a field trip up there every summer. Access has been limited due to too much garbage dumping on the timberlands. Story of the closure of many local areas.
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« Reply #3 on Nov 7, 2009, 9:05pm »

Nov 7, 2009, 2:58pm, Dicky the Rockhunter wrote:
That piece of rhotochrocite has been around a long time and I have been lucky enough to touch it 2 times. ::) Unfortunately the Sweet Home mine it came from in Alma Colo. is closed as is the California on my Mt Antero (shown in my avatar pic to the left) also had some specimens, :o I have been told. I think 4cornersrocks has some in his collection. ;D I know he has rhodonite. Pretty interesting also.

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Yep, I've got some sweet home mine and american tunnel rhodochrosite as well as tons of rhodonite but nothing like that, that must be worth 20K or more, WOW!
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Re: Rhodo
« Reply #4 on Nov 7, 2009, 9:09pm »
The pricetag on the label of the specimen says $75,000! I think I would rather buy an RV and go mineral collecting across the US for that kind of money.
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« Reply #5 on Nov 7, 2009, 11:14pm »
minerals and especially crystal minerals are fantastic..it just amazes me the way nature can produce something so unique and perfect..so geometric which you don't think of nature being able to do..not a big agate/jasper fan..i think most are a dime a dozen..you can find them just about everywhere but mineral crystals are so rare and the conditions that uit takes to form them..everything has to be just perfect..give me a sweet JXR or Diamond hill matrix piece any day of the week over an agate or jasper(jpolk is going to give me a hard time for saying that)
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« Reply #6 on Nov 8, 2009, 8:40am »
LOL Jason. No. Everyone has thier favorites. That big rhodo piece is simply unreal. If I had found it I'm sure that it would be my pride and joy. It's just not every day that really great specimens come along. The thing about agate and jasper is it is sometime possible to get a number of great pieces out of one chunk of rock. Plus the fact that I am a cutter. My passion lies in seeing what I can do with a piece of pretty stone. All you can do with a mineral speciman is look at it. It's just another facet of this hobby that makes it so great.
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Re: Rhodo
« Reply #7 on Nov 8, 2009, 11:12am »
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I'd would have to disagree a little. Here's a dime a dozen Jasper from my own Morrisonite collection that you really can't find just about anywhere. We can make crystals ourselves, and hell, we can even make Diamonds we don't need to wait around for mother nature to do it. But try and make this in a lab. hahaha...Just some friendly banter :)


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« Reply #8 on Nov 8, 2009, 12:02pm »
I knew Jim would chime in..LOL..have to go check up on the CP thread..here is how I look at it..go to Tuscon and look ab see what the big mineral sellers are selling on the main floor..check out the prices on those..the prices reflect rarity and quality..the only agates/jaspers I have seen that topped a couple grand was those ones from Argentina..not to say there is not more out there but no agate/jasper can hold a candle to a mineral crystal..take the best agate/jasper and hold it side by side with the finest aquamarine or sweet home rhodo specimen..can't really compare the two since they are so different but we are talking about a 3-d work of art compared to a 2-D painted rock..give me a palatte of paints and i will make you an agate/jasper....lots of mineral spec. require years of mining and tons of money plus machinery to recover and collect from deep in the earth..most agates you pick up off the ground(generally speaking)..look at the money and effort they have put into mining JXR material..or sweet home material...or jamie hills emeralds..or NC hiddenite..give me a tsumeb azurite any day of the week over any agate/jasper..and agates/jaspers are so popular becasue they are easy to find, easy to cut and polish, and are generally not that expensive..10ct facetgrade piece of sweet home rhodo-$1200...plus they have a whole career based on gems which come from minerals..it's called gemology..hmm..agateology..never heard of that..;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D..just poking the bear all in good fun Jim and Rarerocks ;D
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« Reply #9 on Nov 8, 2009, 4:13pm »
have you ever looked at a manmade hard crystal --- yuck. it is hard but cant be substituted for a jewel, and the electronic created ones just dont shine as well. I think that some of the ceramics are approaching the beauty of agate and can be much harder.
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Re: Rhodo
« Reply #10 on Nov 9, 2009, 1:51pm »
Wow! That is incredible. There are so many minerals I haven't seen or even heard of...yet. As I am learning more about this hobby, my eye is slowly becoming more sophisticated, in a sense. Agates and jaspers are gorgeous in their own right and just different than, not lesser than. That morrisonite is insane and could never be replicated!

Question: Agate & Jasper are forms of quartz, correct? Making them minerals as well, correct? just different crystaline structure?



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