Thanks for doing this. I seem to be the king of procrastination. Its easy when you "Just cut what ever isn't color" as if the color ran forever and the flaws failed to follow thru. I literally have no space to cut thats not clogged with some kind of rough or estate clearing horde right now. AND I saw snow obstructing my view at the back of Virgin Valley this morning. Wont stick yet, but the outside temps have hit the teens already for this winter. Any opal on the surface is getting its proving it can freeze dry again.
My friend conceded I can bring what ever i dont use down in the way of materials to his house and if he hasnt used it......I could use it later. I'm afraid if i put in a new shop or house, Id just spread into it still not accomplishing much. I need others making money for me, but never fostered that over the digging. The library here is going to run an ongoing estate type sale too when we get the inside of the annex, the old Denio Hotel, refinished. Right now its still a shell...and filled like a garage from the bunch of us. The little library next to it, the school also uses as space & resource, has a nice rock garden next to it. Got the Turkey shoot coming right up with the Community Club too. And Guns raffle. Proceeds help keep the shooting range upkept.
It's not like I dont do anything. Just upgraded to fiber optics into the house AND I even went thru & highgraded my small Mexican rough again. I'm just not up to making a million pictures without a little studio Im not balancing on my bedspread! Videos do sell and I have an issue with even more involvement online with say tic toc or instagram on top of what already is taking most of my time, less all the entertainment of course. And did re organize the chrysocolla trailer so I could get all the grits together as I just inherited another addition to almost every category of stuff i had here. High grading takes time LOL> well after the sorting in. As it was I had to have a steroid shot in my thumb joint yesterday at the Dr.
Hmmm - picture of Mexican wet rough. And its here for not looking attractive to cut, not that it wouldnt put something out. I do try and standardize what id be selling or using later at the cutting grade level, which is what clogs me with thousands of specimens that I cant seem to push flats of as they dont have enough opal on each piece to bully a gemstone out of. i like them like crystals in their small size and uniqueness and never tossed them back in the dirt after finding them. I have a bucket of wood with opal on it that out there frozen in the driveway as I dont worry about the opal if it was not dried yet and not sparkling like a pride parade. There are tons of washed material stacked around waiting to be dealt with or decorated with. Not that I can bring myself to just toss all that low grade opal potch into a tumbler, some UVs and the woods are so cute look better rough than rounded down, but not shiny and Now we are way down one burrow in the stone warren I live in- LOL. Took 10 min at least to find these on the phone shrink these down and crop. I still need to shop around to see what the price & availability now is. Auctions seem to fail more than work so Im looking there first. Then shipping if not priority mail or customs. wah wah i think I hear a vibro tumble full of rhodenite calling my name.
The opal appears pretty much as it really is. 