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They really want all the criminals out of business and in prison or heavily fined for not paying all their taxes. The Patriot Act is not being enforced as written. "Although money laundering is often equated with drug trafficking, the proceeds of many crimes can be associated with money launder...

That was easy. Try this one. I thought there was one with more tones but this is the general idea. I got a 0. https://www.xrite.com/hue-test

The ground squirrel killers around here have a propane motor that pump the exhaust out a dozen hoses they put in the holes to gas them.

Neat. Sure is horrible how the fires are bad this year.

I was wondering if it was made with a ceramic sponge, then the gold would smear polish over into a "solid layer" when buffing. Works a job on the opal buyers, we will see how the gold buyers take to it. It is 18ct by wt not by volume and like the 1kt might be more properly called gold flav...

I'm afraid he is knee deep in sorting old collection opals and trying to master a technique that works reliably on any of them. Well all of them, wherever they were or condition started in we hoped. Patience is one thing watching opal gems mature has taught me. Not crazing yet if you start with the ...

The law system does work, eventually. Naming some names where the fake stuff was foisted off on the unsuspecting. "...admitted to delivering the pieces to {many} jewelry stores in states including Arizona, Colorado, California, Texas, Minnesota and Utah: LMN Jewelers, Last Chance Jewelers, Turq...

God help those folks as the bushfires are not even done with their summer. I picked GIVIT myself as a charity to direct my money right into NSW fire relief.

Welcome back. I just spent almost an hour working on getting a cell phone turned on, then I have to go set up new hosting for my website as my old builder is not longer supported. Another joy to accomplish Im sure. Then some snow to go with packing for Arizona. We've been plugging along here adding ...

Hiya everybody. I needed to make you all aware there is a fine producing Virgin Valley Opal Mine still for sale. In our way of consistently producing black opals that can be sold as wet specimens and smaller ones that can be dried and cut to an extent, a Personal Trophy Mine, not commercially develo...