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Post by postal on Mar 8, 2010 8:36:03 GMT -5
John & Lawrence The displays and specmens are great,and ,the photograpy is amazing.Thanks for posting.Pete
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Post by xtldggr on Mar 8, 2010 13:45:50 GMT -5
Thanks Pete!
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Post by xtldggr on Mar 10, 2010 20:35:35 GMT -5
Hello rockhounds! The following photos are of my Calcite\Carbonates collection Nearly all specimens self collected mostly from midwest localities The shelf is four feet wide for a sense of scale. Thanks for looking xtldggr
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Post by hydrogeologist on Mar 10, 2010 21:01:30 GMT -5
Love it John. I'll post up more pics when I get my new display shelf up and going (hopefully this weekend). Some of my minerals have been on basement shelves for waaaaaay too long.
Lawrence
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Post by hydrogeologist on Mar 11, 2010 23:28:50 GMT -5
Nice Earth', no harm in putting the collection out there for all to see. We all started somewhere, you know. BTW I like those quartz crystals--I see Douglas diamonds and Mosheim anticline crystals, too. Tennessee I assume?
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Post by mickey on Mar 12, 2010 10:07:38 GMT -5
Rebecca, Thanks for posting your quartz "bowl". I always catch myself stopping to look at my rocks. My family laughs at me when they catch me staring at my collection. Art comes in all forms and nature is a wonderful artist. I find myself imagining what beautiful things that you must have stored in that old foot locker.
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Post by stevebarr on Mar 12, 2010 12:59:54 GMT -5
Mickey -
The only thing Rebecca keeps in that footlocker is the bodies she doesn't want law enforcement to find. The quartz crystals in the bowl are just to distract them if they ever search her house. With that in mind, take her VERY seriously when she's out on a dig and says to "hand over the rocks and nobody gets hurt".
I think we've all had moments when parts of our collections have distracted us from everyday life. I don't know the technical name for that affliction, but I think it is incurable.
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Post by colorshapetexture on Mar 12, 2010 13:09:21 GMT -5
That looks like one of those killer quartz spider traps. Touch one of them and she will know exactly which one you touched. Then the trap is sprung. I dare ya. Touch one.
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Post by colorshapetexture on Mar 14, 2010 12:05:06 GMT -5
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Post by leadhand on Mar 14, 2010 12:46:10 GMT -5
Run and hide, I think y'all have it too
WARNING ROCK POX
Very contagious.
Symptoms - Continual complaint as to need for fresh air, sunshine and relaxation. Patient has blank expression, sometimes inattentive to rest of family. Has no taste for work of any kind. Frequent checking of dealers' catalogs, and lapidary and mineral shops. Secret phone calls to rock pals. Mumbles to self. Lies to rival collectors. Only one cure.
Treatment - Medication is useless. Disease not fatal. Victim should go hunting as often as possible at beach; mountain or desert hunting grounds and make frequent visits to his lapidary dealer.
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Post by traveler on Sept 2, 2010 18:59:28 GMT -5
bump
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Post by Ryan on Sept 6, 2010 15:04:13 GMT -5
Hi guys, Since I found this board last year, I have amassed many more rocks for my collection, and 100 times as much spoil as the boxes in my garage can attest to, so I needed something better than an end table to display them. ( I posted in this very board 4-5 pages back when I was a baby rock noob) After that post, I made trips over the following months to the Reel, the Ray, the Sinkhole, the Shingletrap area, Chatham, Wake, and Durham area Qtz fields, Garnet Hill, and more! Since then, I received an awesome gift. My grandfather (he’s 84) built me a corner cabinet for my minerals! This thing is beautiful. He even put a 1-piece glass door on it. I’m sure people have paid well over $100 for something like this. And you know those old-timers don’t cut corners. This whole thing is “dove-tailed” and “biscuted” together. Its Oak. Probably could get rammed by a moose and come out the winner. ;D Anyhow, You guys know I like posting pictures so I wanted to share this cabinet. Mainly because Im so d**n proud of my old grandfather (we call him “Poppy”) and grateful to him for making this for me! Thanks for lookin . I got the rock-pox pretty bad. It might be a terminal case! I still have so much I wanna do. If anyone wants a buddy to hit the Crabtree (must have NC emerald!) , the Shingletrap, the Redmond mine adit, or any of the Franklin area corundum locals, let me know! Id be glad to join! These are all on my to-do list! Hmmmm… idea for forum thread: everyone list the event(s) that lead to them becoming a rockhound. “How did the rock-bug bite you?” eh? Happy hunting, fall weather will soon be upon us. Summers brutal heat is already subsiding here in Pittsburgh.
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Post by stevebarr on Sept 6, 2010 15:57:30 GMT -5
Ryan - Your Poppy rocks! What a cool gift.
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Post by scott on Sept 7, 2010 7:58:53 GMT -5
That's an awesome mineral cabinet. It was very nice to see the pictures of each individual shelf and the description of what they were and where you found them. Very well done. Thanks for sharing.
Scott
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Post by gaetama50 on Sept 30, 2010 22:42:52 GMT -5
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Post by Ryan on Oct 1, 2010 1:25:48 GMT -5
BLAHAHAHAH! I love Popcorn Rock. Nice looking set. I too have an overstock room. It kinda spilled into my garage and grew massive and now I get strange looks from the landlord... You should have seen her face when I told her the one was uranium ore. ;D
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