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potatoes

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:06 pm
by dirtdiver
I'm curious if any of you Az rockhounders have run across any of these in your hounding travels. I call 'em potatoes because that's what they remind me of.

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Re: potatoes

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:16 am
by roc2rol
They're pretty abundant in Idaho
the variety in Arizona are most likely
HOT :oops:

wonder what the white knobs are minerally ?
and is the brown matrix ancient mud?

Ed

Re: potatoes

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:04 pm
by dirtdiver
Hey Ed, the white nodules are agate and the brown matrix is a desert crust of some sort. When sliced open, this usually what is inside. Soooo, by the lack of opascity and the mohs hardness (7+), I'm assuming these are a type of jasper.
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Ed,you may have noticed the big red/ green one the middle kinda resembles a rockin heart I did this year ;)

Re: potatoes

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:20 am
by roc2rol
wow those are fabulous!
those eyes/nodules are full of color!
you say these potatoes are in the Holbrook area?
hopefully there isn't a potato famine
cause I'm on my way :P
to slice and dice
& great polishing material
roc

Re: potatoes

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:30 pm
by rockdude
I got to get out in the desert more. Those are great looking items.

Re: potatoes

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:34 am
by TradClimber
I screwed up - posted on wrong thread.

TradClimber

Re: potatoes

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:15 pm
by roc2rol
T.C.!
- You always were a Mr. Potato Head :lol:
rocEd

Re: potatoes

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:22 am
by roc2rol
a friend of mine brought me a couple of those potatoes
he visited Meteor Crater and later did some meteorite hunting
around the Holbrook area
some day I'm going to try to polish a slab
have you cabbed any?
any pic?
rco