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my new hand axe 2011-04-02 - 8:36 a.m. I received my final swap package yesterday afternoon. As always, my fellow swappers about knock me off of my perch with their generosity. I had a tiny suspicion when I got a private message from the gentleman that he had just had surgery on his hand, so he couldn't lift my package for a few days. Does that sound like the kind of swap where you're going to lose weight?* And, in fact, the package was bulging with Savannah River Agate from a public collecting site in Girard, Georgia, along with a few pounds of sweet pink Rose Quartz from the Hogg Mine in LaGrange, Georgia. Of all the states in the south, Georgia is the one where I've spent the least time. I know it only as a bit of interstate or an airport. Or one of those spots you can see from Lookout Mountain. So I can't say much about these localities, other than to make a note of what others have reported about them. Rose Quartz is Rose Quartz, and I'd rate most or all of the material as tumbling grade, which is fine, since I put out a call some time ago for this material, having long ago sold all of mine except for a single large chunky personal specimen for $2 a pound. We'll cut these pieces up and fill a tumbler barrel or so, and then I should be good on Rose Quartz for awhile. Of course, I'd better examine all of the material carefully, since this location is known to produce Rose Quartz with stars. The rest of the box was jammed and crammed with the Savannah River Agate. Here is the description from the link he gave me when he suggested the swap: Savannah River Agate/Chert...is actually a conglomeration of agate, jasper, chert, and opalite all mixed together to form a layered specimen that will tumble or cab into beautiful display pieces. This rock occurs as black and brown mottled agate and in a large range of pastel colors from greens to yellows to violets.... The micro minerals are located in vugs of the agate/chert rock. If you look closely, you may find rare phosphate minerals like clear to pinkish strengite, green wavellite, variscite, golden cacoxenite, brown to yellow-brown jarosite, sharp brilliant crystals and green-brown fibrous hemispheres of dufrenite, pale chartreuse-green spherical globules of kidwellite, brown to black fibrous crusts and spheres of rockbridgeite, white finely fibrous tufts of churchite. The vugs may also contain hyalite opal, limonite, deep red-brown hematite, barite, goethite, gypsum, or druzy quartz. I haven't cleaned it up yet, but I already know that I have some druzy quartz pieces that can be trimmed out for jewelry-making, as well as some agate/chert in reds and purples. I can't keep all of it, so I'm going to have to review it carefully to see what will be tumbled, what will be cabbed, what will be trimmed for druzy, and what will be sold or swapped again. The find of the day for that box was a smallish flint-knapped hand axe, presumably worked in days of old by some unknown Native American. Needless to say, it has already found a place in my display cabinet. *Of my three recent swaps, I sent out 49 pounds of Smoky Quartz, Green Tourmaline Needles in Quartz, and Green Serpentine. Got back approximately 36 pounds in miscellaneous cut stones (including that gold Hawaiian coral cab!), Utah Pigeon Blood Agate, Hogg Mine Rose Quartz, and Savannah River Agate/Chert. So I've cleared 13 pounds, plus the "junk" Quartz and low-grade specimens I sold at the garage sale. I'm making progress slowly, but I am making progress. There's actually a floor in my office now... back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford