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- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:45 am
- Forum: Gemstones
- Topic: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 343
Re: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
8) 8) really enjoyed your article on "quartz," pink diamond!!! definitely a good read with excellent information, some quite shocking and eye-opening, and the pics are excellent! love the oil frog inclusion, looks like a frog! lol!! i did not know that when some tigers eye and hawks eye l...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:39 am
- Forum: Gemstones
- Topic: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 343
Re: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
You are absolutely correct about the synthetic quartz being everywhere, as I noted in the quartz article: "Most natural quartz tries to form more than one crystal in the same space; a phenomenon known as Brazil Law Twinning, that becomes visible under crossed polars, and renders most natural ma...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:31 am
- Forum: Gemstones
- Topic: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 343
Re: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
Synthetic quartz is flooded all over the market as natural, sadly! I won't even buy the rough anymore unless is shows some crystal shape to it or from very trusted sources(very few). Just not worth it! Aside from hydrothermally grown synthetic quartz, there is also something called fused quartz(aka...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:30 am
- Forum: Gemstones
- Topic: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 343
Re: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
There has been an alert regarding some of the citrine being found on the market that a colleague of mine on another forum has kindly allowed me to quote: Gearloose wrote: "Over the years I suppose people have been amused by my Fake Quartz rants. They were genuine. An issue has come up in the la...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:30 am
- Forum: Gemstones
- Topic: Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 343
Quartz: Is it real, or is it Memorex?
Those old enough will know which word I changed so I could use that phrase in this thread's title! A great deal of quartz changes hands every day, and as we all know, a gem's journey from the miner to the end buyer is fraught with perils all the way, and you never know when they will fall into the h...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:25 am
- Forum: Fossils
- Topic: Fab Fossils
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8255
Re: Fab Fossils
gingerkid wrote:this thread -> Rocks!!! 8) all of the fossils are indeed, fab!! 8)
*End of Fab Fossils thread copied from old forum.
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:24 am
- Forum: Fossils
- Topic: Fab Fossils
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8255
Re: Fab Fossils
Here's a cool rock Steve brought home. It's got tiny crystals all over one area, and they're stained by iron oxide so they have a pinkish tint IronOxideStainedQuartzCrystalOddFormation.jpg And this one just amazes me because the tiny crystals really are PINK! PinkDruzyOnRock.JPG Here are some more o...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:13 am
- Forum: Fossils
- Topic: Fab Fossils
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8255
Re: Fab Fossils
LOL Chris! 
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:12 am
- Forum: Fossils
- Topic: Fab Fossils
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8255
Re: Fab Fossils
Rockranger wrote:Here,s a few fossills I,ve picked up over time....from the BC area.
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:09 am
- Forum: Fossils
- Topic: Fab Fossils
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8255
Re: Fab Fossils
Gemjunkie wrote:I wonder if they had ancient inland pirates? Maybe that's why they call it Arrr-Kansas.
mehoose wrote:oo, my favs are the 3rd last and last.Har harrrrrr 8)