Thread: I Found It Over There

For me it is the one time good luck piece of stone I'm looking for, getting vollume would be interrested if you try to set up a business, and if you find something like that there is not that much market for fine finishing hones (beside us nutjobs here using a straight razor). but it would be realy cool to shave with a blade sharpened on a piece of rock you found yourself somewhere in nature.

Dennis, that hone looks realy nice! when you start selling them I'd like a PM so I can get in line

I just hot a bunch of rock from my usual place. About a third of it was full of tiny little factor lines. It is not good for hones. It will make some decent garden rock. There is a lot of grading that takes place as well. Not every slab that gets cut gets to be a hone. Between crack and inclusions it brings the numbers down pretty fast.

Made a stop and grabbed some rocks yesterday on the way home from a cut out in the roadside...a blueish green stone, loose stuff around it but has some bigger layers in there.

Now there is a likely spot to do some sampling and chipping.

Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop

Made a stop and grabbed some rocks yesterday on the way home from a cut out in the roadside...a blueish green stone, loose stuff around it but has some bigger layers in there.

Here's an example of the slate from that out cropping

There are spots like this every square mile in this state lol

This one runs probably 1/8 mile

I wonder what kind of a bureaucratic mine field of paper work it would be to try to establish a quarry where you are? It is a long and slow process here.

Originally Posted by RezDog

I wonder what kind of a bureaucratic mine field of paper work it would be to try to establish a quarry where you are? It is a long and slow process here.

You have to find out who owns the land and then you need to investigate the mineral rights and there are the zoning issues. If you are successful there you need to meet all kinds of environmental and safety regulations and get permits. That much is pretty much the same all over. Individual jurisdictions may have additional requirements.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

You have to find out who owns the land and then you need to investigate the mineral rights and there are the zoning issues. If you are successful there you need to meet all kinds of environmental and safety regulations and get permits. That much is pretty much the same all over. Individual jurisdictions may have additional requirements.

Pretty close to the same here, we have am added step that is both a positive and a negative. Our final step is that you have to go before the joint review panel, at which point your project can become instantly approved or thrown into the abiss of red tape. The joint review panel is largely local people which is handy because everyone knows what and where we are talking about.

No clue honestly, not really interested in it on a commercial level, im too lazy for that