Tiger eye from the valley

[silent hunter]

Good mourning Ed I thought you would enjoy this rock> I believe it to be Tiger eye,but I am not sure.

Best Wishes
kurt painter

[roc2rol]

wow Curt
That some good looking rock!
Not enough of rock hound to know if its tiger eye
from this area? What part of the valley?
Lets go !

anyway ya get me a piece of that
and I'll make ya a roc'n heart !
thnxs for posting
& happy hunting!

later
Ed

[roc2rol]

this is an amazing rock with quite a story !!
its located at a rock shop in the Swilling district
its kind of like tiger eye
I copped a piece from it an made a roc'n heart from it
full of metal- hematite- I suppose
really cool

[cubfan64]

Amazing that a stone can be cut that accurately and carefully with such narrow slices without cracking and breaking. Truly a neat skill!!

[silent hunter]

Ed I would gladdly give you a chunk if you would make a heart for me. I would give that heart to my mother. I am going to that spot this saturday and I will bring a back pack full home with me. Not all of it had the crystal looking chunks in it.

Best Wishes
Kurt Painter

[roc2rol]

Dang Curt
if that is Tiger Eye
and
if there is more there
you may have hit a certain pay dirt!

Does it look hard enough to take a polish?
It really look like good stuff!
Good Luck

Paul


The owner told me this is his $75,000 rock that just sits there.
On further questioning he told me the tale.

The rock was quarried in Sicily and attempted to be slabbed in Italy
The slab cuts you see…well …are not cut always thru this behemoth!
The owner broke 3 diamond band saw blades trying to slab this rock!
With NO success! 3 blades at a value of 25,000 a piece!
He could not get a clean slab cut clean thru!

So he had the rock shipped to Phoenix be fancy a paper weight


So I wondering what is at the bottom third of this rock?
Some sort of tough metal? Is it magnetic?
I got my magnet & checked! Didn’t detect any force.
But I did notice that the rock had been cut clean thru on the end!
That was strange, Perhaps, the cut was with the grain? Not sure.
Like to meet the owner again someday and ask him.

Like I said I copped a piece of this rock it and made heart.
It was full of metal--soft metal Hematite, I think.


I’d like to get the heart made by Valentines Day Curt.
That means we’d have to turn on the rock pretty soon.
Write me
wil2521@yahoo.com
you too Paul !

Ed

[cubfan64]

wow - that's a unique rock and quite a story! $25K per blade - whew, that's a business, not a hobby

[roc2rol]

jus to follow up mr. hunter
did oyu find more?
have you positively i.d what you found?
can you get a rock to me by Mothers day ?

[roc2rol]

Hi Guys!

Here’s a iron tiger stone
I worked this weekend

enjoy
roc2rol