[Rockhounds] AD- Disaster Peak Scenic Jasper

Sat Apr 11 19:38:20 PDT 2009

All:

Tim's right if you don't know the tricks.... If you soak your  preform in a 
mixture of clear epoxy and acetone for a couple weeks (OK, I  let mine go that 
long because I'm busy enough to not getback to it for 2 weeks,  might be 
less), then let it dry for a week or so, you can get an outstanding  
polish.....much of the material is already hard enough not to need treatment.  I'll put it 
this way... 300 pounds and I have no regrets....other than that it's  not 400 
or 500 lbs.... I don't know what they are charging for rough that you  get to 
pick through at Paradise.... On eBay, it's less than $3 a pound tops.  Problem 
is how much you have to buy. The person after enough for one or two cabs  
isn't going to be able to afford this... sorry....

Dan

In a message dated 4/11/2009 9:46:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nospam at orerockon.com writes:

PS the  people selling it are dealers form Sacramento, you should be able to
get it  from them off Ebay for a whole lot less. They are at the Paradise CA
show  right now. 

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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