[Rockhounds] Yellow Cat Flat, Utah, recent visit

[Jay Bates]

Hi Bob,

I only need one and I will leave the rest for those that follow. I have 
collected many things and I no longer see the sense collecting more than 
one that I am only going to display. Check out Puff:

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/mcrocks/vpost?id=3439027&pid=33237961#post33237961
Jay
Bob Loeffler wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> I bet there is more there, but you have to dig it up instead of just the
> easy surface collecting we have been accustomed to at that location.
>
> Yes, it is very beautiful material.  I'm not a big agate hound, but I love
> how it is a pseudomorph of barite crystals/clusters.  Some of the blobs
> looks like they could be any other kind of rock, but some of them (like the
> pictures on the website) have obvious barite crystal structure, although
> they have been weathered.
>
> Can we see a picture of the "blow fish" agate?   :-)
>
> Hey Alan, nice scenic pictures!  I hadn't gotten up as high as you so I
> didn't see the area from that perspective yet.
>
> Bob
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> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Jay Bates
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:26 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Yellow Cat Flat, Utah, recent visit
>
> Bob, when I was there last fall almost all the agate after barite was 
> gone. Someone or maybe many someones had cleaned it all out. Beside a 
> few scraps I only found one nice piece of red agate wood there.  I was 
> aware of your trip report before I went and I am sure so were others. 
> This area has become very well known after the article in Rock and Gem 
> and the spectacular pictures of Yellow Cat wood in that recent book 
> published on petrified woods. Those pictures in that book really opened 
> some eyes about how spectacular Yellow Cat wood can be and many have 
> made the trip. I see your bunny rabbit also. Mine looks like a blow 
> fish. Jay
>
> Bob Loeffler wrote:
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>> Hi Alan and list,
>>
>> Our club has gone there the last three years and we found tons of the red
>> agate after barite in 2007.  I wasn't on the trip last summer.  Here are
>> some of the pictures. Each trip has a few pages of pictures:
>>
>> 2008 trip: no pictures
>>
>> 2007 trip: http://www.peaktopeak.com/njeffco/2007/yellowcat/yc07_1.php
>> The agate after barite specimen in the 4th picture on page 2 reminds me of
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>> bunny rabbit laying on his back with its head facing to the left and all
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>> his arms/legs sticking up a little.  Anyone else see it, or is that just
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> my
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>> brain going crazy?
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