[Rockhounds] Yellow Cat Flat, Utah, recent visit

[Jay Bates]

I also have buckets of agates, petrified wood and geodes. Mostly 
collected in my younger days but also gotten at estate sales  to relieve 
many a poor widow of such burdens that they have lived with for many 
years. I was careful to say "anything that I display I only need one 
of"  not that I may cut. I am afraid I am not as frugal and pious as you 
were led to believe. lol

I do take less cutting material home than I used to and I give a lot 
away to younger club members that use it and don't have the time or 
money to go into the field and collect. I give a lot of scraps from 
making spheres away. I think we all collect too much and need to cut 
down. Let your conscience be your guide. Also give it away or sell it 
before the heirs have to deal with it.

daughtofking64 at yahoo.com wrote:
> I wish my husband would realize what you have Jay. That there is no need to take more than you will ever get to in a life time. My husband has buckets and buckets of Jasper, Petrified wood and Geodes. I love to go on our treasure hunts but feel as though we should be more picky with our take homes. It is one of our routine arguments...."Get some of these rocks cleared out!" 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Bates <jaybates at rcn.com>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:25:10 
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors<rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Yellow Cat Flat, Utah, recent visit
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> Hi Bob,
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> 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:
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> http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/mcrocks/vpost?id=3439027&pid=33237961#post33237961
> Jay
> Bob Loeffler wrote:
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>> Hi Jay,
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>> 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.
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>> 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?   :-)
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>> 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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
>> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Jay Bates
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:26 AM
>> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
>> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Yellow Cat Flat, Utah, recent visit
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>> 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,
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>>> 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:
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>>> 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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>>> brain going crazy?
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