[Rockhounds] AD- Disaster Peak Scenic Jasper

[VevaBailey at aol.com]

Kris, I went and looked at the rocks and they are out of my price range. 
If it is alright with you, I will purchase some from you. 
I only need enough to make a few cabs. So let me know how much, offline. 
 
Veva
 
 
In a message dated 4/11/2009 1:08:12 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Lapidry at aol.com writes:


All:

I don't know how many of you are interested but I  thought I'd pass  this 
along. This is someone I stumbled across on  eBay selling off about  
11,000-12,000 pounds of Disaster Peak. She  originally thought it was about 
7,000  lbs. 
Now, for the standard  disclaimer.... I don't have any connection with  
this 
woman other  than buying about 300 lbs of material and being very happy  
with it.  Very nice material. I thought I'd pass on the opportunity to  our 
 
Rockhounds list folks. 

I got a shipment this week, two shipments a  week ago....and  one the week 
before. I went  through them and  sorted what I  wanted to cut into in the 
near future because they  looked really promising....  came out at about 
35%. 
Most of the rest  I just don't have a good window to see  what's there. 
Several 
of the  "good" pieces had fresh brakes so you  could see the inside. It is  
amazing how the outside either originally had a skin  or built one  over 
time 
so that a piece that looks totally brown is a nice blue a   16th of an inch 
below the surface. Of course, this is actually fairly  common...  I just 
don't 
tend to expect it.... Even stuff with broken  surfaces can be  coated... 
Pretty much like anything from Franklin,  NJ where you need a  fresh brake 
or 
rhodonite/rhodochrosite where it  oxidizes black. If it's any  indicator, I 
just ordered another  shipment a few minutes ago.....

In e-mails with Mary, the woman selling  the material, I've pieced  
together 
a little more info than what she  gives in the eBay listing.... This was  
her uncle's stash he'd built  over decades but he recently died. She just  
goes 
out to the aunt's  to fill orders. That's probably why she doesn't ship  
that fast - it  takes her a few days to go out there. It would also appear  
Mary  
accidentally over sold what she thought was there last week.....  She'd  
cleaned out the shed making up the last few shipments and  didn't think she 
could  fill all the orders. The aunt suggested  pulling up the loose 
plywood on 
the  floor of the shed and she found  out there was another one foot layer 
underneath.  That's times 96  square foot. She's figuring 50 lbs to the 
cubic 
foot so she  thinks  she just hit another 2+ tons. Can you imagine 
11,000-12,000 lbs of   any one scenic material? I thought her numbers were 
overly   
optimistic because I figured a 5 gallon bucket was more than a cubic   
foot... 
Wrong - 5 gallon buckets are roughly 8/10 of a cubic foot.  She's  probably 
fairly correct in her weight estimates... this stuff  runs lighter than  
many 
types of rock and full buckets of most rock  weigh about 50-55 lbs. I  
would 
suggest ordering soon... before she  over sells again... I'm giving the  
link to 
one of her auctions below  but check out all her auctions. She has lot  
sizes 
of 15 lbs, 40+, 50  and 100 lbs as well as 500 and 1000. You can offer  
less.... she  seems to take $72 for the 40+ lbs and $175 for the hundred 
pounds   
and I doubt she's doing anything different on packing stuff off the pile  
if 
you  offered less.

Update... I just heard from her husband  after a few more shipments.... 
he's 
figuring about 64 cubic feet  left.....

Their listings on eBay are under the following  link....


_http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/basketcase_38_  
(http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/basketcase_38) 

Thank you all for  reading through this long posting....

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