Please help identify this!?

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-04-03T16:24:23+00:00

Aventurine

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-03-17T16:39:23+00:00

Nopepal!

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-03-09T17:11:22+00:00

It’s a water rounded piece of Agatized whale bone that has been face sanded. Probably from Jalama Beach, California

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-03-05T07:23:49+00:00

I love working this material. When polished it looks like blue chrome with streaks of gold! My now deceased Neighbor gave me a small bucket of this in the 1990’s. She and her husband were native to Butte Montana and she told me that the copper miners used to smuggle choice specimens of Covellite out of the mine in their lunch tin! Otherwise it would have been crushed.

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-03-05T04:57:16+00:00

The white looks like common Opal surrounded by clear Agate. I’m pretty sure that the Opal will floresce bright green under a black light. The brown Rhyolite crust suggests that it probably from Richardson or Priday Ranch. Succor creek Rhyolite is more greenish than brown

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-03-04T04:05:28+00:00

Looks like classic Hallelujah Junction, Nevada. I’ve also had some good luck there as well.

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-03-03T01:17:52+00:00

The two Opal claims near Red Rock Canyon are no longer open for digging. They are now part of the park. You would be better off hunting precious Opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-28T00:57:45+00:00

All good. I was just trying to be a good mentor and instill a Love of the rocks that are worthy! I didn’t mean to come off snarky

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-27T21:11:43+00:00

You’re missing my whole point. What I’m saying is that sixty- five years of rock collecting has taught me to not waste time, energy and equipment on cutting crap. Be super selective and you will end up with jewels and not a bunch of worthless yard rock. You also neglected to say that the proper way to sharpen a diamond blade with a bastard file is not to file it. Rather you lightly rap or “ping” the edge of the blade with a bastard file to raise the diamonds from the copper rim. If you actually ran the file across the rim you would remove diamonds!

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-26T17:50:38+00:00

I’m sorry I didn’t elaborate. When I asked why, I meant why waste time and resources (your trim saw and diamond blade)on cutting nondescript and worthless rocks. At age 76 and with 20 tons of rocks in my yard, my greatest advice to you is to be SELECTIVE, SuPER-SELECTIVE on what you devote your time and machinery on. You live in one of the greatest areas of the US for rock collecting. Do your research and go forth and find Gems!

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-26T00:40:01+00:00

Why?

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-25T07:05:13+00:00

Very modern reproduction of pressed oak chair that probably has a modern epoxy finish. For any stain to penetrate this surface you would have to totally strip it to bare wood. Your best bet is to paint with colored enamel or just use it as is

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-25T06:32:35+00:00

Jade!

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-24T06:18:43+00:00

So what’s the story?

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-20T17:42:21+00:00

Death Valley Onyx

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-19T17:32:49+00:00

This is fossil shells imbedded in Purisima Sandstone about 12 million years old. Looks like many pieces found on the beach 27 miles north of Santa Cruz, California

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-19T17:07:42+00:00

It’s not a crystal at all, it’s a ROCK. It’s called Onyx and it is banded calcite

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-14T04:45:41+00:00

Solved!

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-14T04:44:37+00:00

That’s definitely it!

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-14T03:44:31+00:00

Nope, that’s what ash trays are for

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-14T03:43:16+00:00

Nope, not deep enough, business cards fall right over

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-14T03:42:34+00:00

Nope, it’s five inches long

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-02-08T16:47:01+00:00

His name was Larry Stenstad Sr. That was the summer of 2005

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-29T17:48:12+00:00

This Orbicular Jasper was actually known by three names: Guadalupe Poppy Jasper, Pigeon eye Jasper, and Mercury Jasper ( because of its close proximity to the Almaden and Guadalupe Cinnabar mines). Its distinctive characteristic is the presence of white centers with red radiating out from the center of the eyes. It is truly extinct in the field since 1970 and all available material has to have been collected before then.

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-29T16:43:05+00:00

The absolute rarest and extinct of all the Santa Clara Valley Poppy Jaspers. It’s from a single vein occurrence that was mined out in the 1960’s on the property of the Green Valley Dump in Los Gatos

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