[Rockhounds] AD- Disaster Peak Scenic Jasper

Sat Apr 11 18:43:05 PDT 2009

One word of caution: it's a lot lighter because it's a lot more porous.
Disaster Peak is a rhyolite, not a jasper, and it works like wonderstone,
not like a picture jasper, therefore you shouldn't expect a great polish
from it (because you won't get one). FYI: I am leading the Mt Hood Rock Club
to the McDermitt NV/OR area June 20-27th and we will be digging the Disaster
Peak pit. 

Tim Fisher 
Ore-ROCK-On! 
Email address at http://OreRockOn.com

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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] AD- Disaster Peak Scenic Jasper

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....

Dan
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