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Welcome Charles! I picture living in Arizona to be about 90% rock, gem, mineral, and gold hunting and digging... What do you do for,a living with the last 10%?

( I'm stuck in ohio, so we just have quarries and a few fossils... Blah... )

Nice... I hope you find it a nice home. It will make a nice conversation piece.

Nope, not Spencer, this is ausie opal...

Lol, Pink, the crown of thorns would of been easier, the hole was already there to start it! I used to do that with Franklin .50 cent pieces so it says "in God we trust" around the ring. Fun projects. They look good Charles!

Hello my other family! sorry I haven't been on in a while, been busy with life and the things that it entails, etc... Anyway, I recently started back into a few projects and that led to one thing after another where I was cleaning of the work bench and I found a bag of Australian opal bits that I mu...

MSS is one of my favorites... That Sannan-Skarn may look similar but I wonder about hardness, etc...

Quartz, topaz and other clear rocks can look like diamonds but that doesn't mean they are as good...

I'm gonna have to Hunt some down now and test it out'

I'd have to go look at the rules, but if they say your design stays yours, then no big deal.... It's the contests rules that say all submitions become the property of the sponsor is when I call B.S. That is when they are just using everyone that enters as cheap designers and give a token prize out. ...

I really have no comment about her....

Happy birthday John! Good luck with the pup....

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