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FREE: My Utah Find! BIG Brown Banded Agate !***(with the works!)

 My Utah Find!  BIG Brown Banded Agate !***(with the works!)
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The listing, My Utah Find! BIG Brown Banded Agate !***(with the works!) has ended.

Check out every single one of these pictures! This is the most AMAZING find ever for me!!! I found this about 3 months ago. I was having a bad day so I decided to go out to the west desert here in Utah and shoot at some cans. We have a tiny town just about 30- 40 miles outside of Salt Lake called (fittingly) Aragonite. Aragonite has just one building I Believe, I have never been close enough to know any better or different. Utah is a brilliant State, we buy the tailings or "nuclear waste, hazardous waste, bio- haz materials and radioactive materials" other States want to dispose of but have no where to do so. So the greedy political idiots that run this place buy it and bury it out in our desert!!! If you've never been through the west desert in Utah, you probably don't have that "inner glow" that we sinners have , who drive through it to go to Nevada to gamble only 90 minutes away!! Just kidding but who knows what crud we are breathing when we get a west wind??? Ok, enough bashing politics....well never enough but
So I was kicking around the dirt even more mad than when I left home because I couldn't hit a can with a bullet if you put it in front of my face that day! So I grabbed my shovel and pick and started walking, and when I hit the ground with my shovel there was a huge rock under it. I was a bit nervous to dig it up cuz (you never know...) I could have landed on the moon
Well I dug and picked and when I got this home, cleaned, cut, shined and polished I was so freaking thrilled it's a chemistry teachers dreamrock!
If you look at the very center you can see millions of geode crystals! The way to tell they are geode is they are all like little tiny shark teeth, all spiked and pointed inward toward the center of the agate or (Aggregate) Surrounding the Geode are a ton of Drusy! Drusy are the bigger more clustered crystals that encase the Geode crystals. I am running out of my 2000 spaces,show me the love bid generously
Questions & Comments
Original
Sooooo pretty, and I love your commentary! I will definitely be bidding closer to the end. :-) I'm glad you stopped by my auction to leave a comment, so I could find yours!
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Apr 25th, 2014 at 3:09:54 PM PDT by
Original
I seriously about peed my pants, I was so excited/to find this sucker!!!! (Plus I was in the middle of the desert with 72 oz of water and a Coke!) LOL!!!!!
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Apr 27th, 2014 at 11:47:44 AM PDT by
Original
Absolutely gorgeous.
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Apr 24th, 2014 at 10:49:34 PM PDT by
Original
Thank you soooo much!!!! I have 2 so I decided to part with one...xoxo
Apr 24th, 2014 at 11:33:38 PM PDT by
Original
So pretty!! How can you part with it??
May 6th, 2014 at 10:35:03 PM PDT by
Original
I'm wondering the same about your gorgeous ones! I actually have a second slice.... :) and thanks so much!!!
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May 7th, 2014 at 4:21:25 PM PDT by
Original
Nice. Fanned
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May 11th, 2014 at 4:29:48 AM PDT by
Original
Thanks, and fanning back! xoxo
May 11th, 2014 at 11:14:10 PM PDT by
Original
I Love this stone and would like to share a spot with you that I had goodluck. Try Caliente Nevada on utah border. Stay at the vintage but charming Caliente Hot Springs Hotel for a private soak tub & hit the washes north of there. Geodes, brown agate primarily. This was a fav get away for me. I share your sentiments in description also which is why I live in north wisconsin now
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May 10th, 2014 at 7:28:17 PM PDT by
Original
LOL!!!! Can I come watch Green Bay get their butts kicked by the Vikes sometime????? I love my Purple People Eaters.... see, I don't think I should have been born n raised here either, but damn those Mountains here are Amazing!!! Love ya!!!!!! xoxoxo
May 11th, 2014 at 11:27:00 PM PDT by
Original
OMG, Tonight my sweetest friend dave gave me a gorgeous BIG Geode he found a bunch of "weird" rocks out fishing the other day, he told me he saw some rocks, the one's I like to gather and I said "GRAB EM!" He did and I'm going to go cut some open with him and his kids tomorrow, this one looks like it will be a fantastic agate with tons of Geode!!!!! YES!!!!!! xoxo!
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May 8th, 2014 at 11:19:00 PM PDT by
Original
That is awesome, is this place accessible to any type of vehicle. I live in Magna and have gone to the Geode beds and would love to check this place out. I used to be into rockhounding a lot years ago but don't do much any more because of health issues.
May 8th, 2014 at 2:35:15 AM PDT by
Original
Actually I look all over when headed to Wendover, but do you know that place called AMAX? It's just this side of Dell, and my dad used to go there a lot when he was alive, and owned Continental Steel...the puke green steel comp just off of 7200 and 21st...I have no clue as to what they did out there, but he told me that to even get close you had to be in full Bio-Haz gear,and have all kinds of clearance! We're talking masks, oxygen, who knows what they are doing out there, I'm afraid to ask...we probably have aliens in there... lol...oh wait, they all live in Magna! KIDDING!!!!!!! LOL! I'd love to take you with me sometime!!! I just have to plan everything around my liver meds... what a pain! I stopped in Aragonite a few times and only once did I find something there, and yup it was a rock of Aragonite!!! How apro po!!!Keep in touch Hun and we can go play in the dirt!!! Always fun with more than one!
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May 8th, 2014 at 10:37:31 AM PDT by
Original
It cut me off...but the little tiny brown cluster inside of the Geode are granular clusters, the grains of rock leftovers the metamorphosis took place... SO THERE!!!! Ha ha!
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Apr 24th, 2014 at 4:27:05 PM PDT by
Original
well.... not just watching only. I'll get the agate rolling......."like a rolling stone" lol. Yeah, I know,,,,don't quit my day job, lol
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May 3rd, 2014 at 6:37:03 AM PDT by
Original
Hi Hun. I'll beback lter today. xoxox
May 4th, 2014 at 5:51:02 AM PDT by
Original
Don't forget I ship it free packaged with TLC! xoxoxo
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Apr 24th, 2014 at 11:34:28 PM PDT by
Original
Another beautiful agate debby........you know I'm watching,lol
May 3rd, 2014 at 6:31:52 AM PDT by
Original
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May 4th, 2014 at 5:50:38 AM PDT by
Original
That is one cool rock not related to my search at all but still really cool.
May 7th, 2014 at 11:06:58 AM PDT by
Original
Thank you!!
May 7th, 2014 at 4:20:27 PM PDT by
Original
beautiful
May 2nd, 2014 at 3:59:49 AM PDT by
Original
Thanks so much!!! xoxo
May 2nd, 2014 at 5:20:56 AM PDT by
Original
Another Awesome one !!! I would love to be able to go out and look for these, How cool of a find you got... Wow
And a great story to boot :)
Apr 25th, 2014 at 12:35:28 AM PDT by
Original
I went a bit wild!!!! I was bouncing off the walls happy!!! Thanks I'm glad you like it too xoxoxo
Apr 25th, 2014 at 3:42:25 AM PDT by
Original
If we hit 30000 I'll throw in a brass stand for it!!!!!!
Apr 24th, 2014 at 11:36:12 PM PDT by
Original
Lol.. you purple people eater! Come on down for the butt kickin anytime :) I love the mounains and really pine for the Utah landscape. I have about 1,000 favorite places in the red rock mountains.
May 12th, 2014 at 4:34:16 PM PDT by
Original
Love those red rocks!!! Tell me you're NOT a Packer Fan???? LOL!
May 15th, 2014 at 10:21:55 AM PDT by
Original
Oooooooooh! It's coming up near the end of this auction. I will be out at an event at the Salvadore Dali Museum Thursday night, but I will put in my bid before I leave. I wish I could watch the end of this!
May 13th, 2014 at 8:13:15 PM PDT by
Original
Cool!! Where is the Museum? I am going on a dig this coming weekend! Can't wait!
May 15th, 2014 at 10:20:58 AM PDT by
Original
I Even got some nice wooden stands too... Maybe I'll just trow it in cuz ..... I CAN! LOL!!!!!1 xoxoxoxoxoxox
May 15th, 2014 at 11:46:04 AM PDT by

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