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The Gemstone Topic
Topic Started: Jan 6 2010, 01:57:59 AM (677 Views)
Beagle
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so loooooong before i was entertaining thoughts of being a journalist i was trying to be a Gemologist going so far as to take up an apprenticeship

i know my gemstones fairly well and i was wondering if other people on here liked/knew about Gemstones. also if you have any stone you want to know more about ask about it here ^_^ so list your favorite gemstones/ talk about the business or anything else that has to do with the funny little rocks.

personaly my favorite is Paraiba Tourmaline

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followed by Ruby (my birthstone)

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and Lapis Lazuli (i just bought these)

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Frost
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OH THEY ARE SHINEY!
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Beagle
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*sigh* yes frost gemstones are shiny. heres a shiny rock go and get it *throws in a pool of acid*

and related to the topic. Burmese Rubies have been embargoed in the US no clue why but the pri e of them has trippled since the ban was put in place.

i smell price warfare.
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i smell price warfare.
Is that related to Modern Warfare but the bullets being coins and gemstones?
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Cool. I used to collect these many years ago. Never had a Lapis Lazulli, are those expensive btw?
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Beagle
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nope i got all four of those for $8.99 with shipping and handling it came out to $11.99 which is a pretty good deal for them considering how awesome they look

if you want quality though you got to check out JTV they are the best ^_^

lol no mic it has to do with price fixing and the U.S promoting it's own Rubies instead of the long favored Burmese rubies. There has been alt of stuff going on with rubies as of late actually, scientists have created this new resin that has the same hardness of a real ruby. so people are taking substandard cracked rubies and putting this resin on them to repair them. The process is called fissure filling and if done right it is an acceptable fix. but then you have idiots that will make an entire ruby out of the stuff :X:
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TKM
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hey, this isn't exactly gemstone stuff, but maybe you would know. at the renfest up here, there's a really excellent swordsmith who, a couple years ago, had a knife whose handle was made out of a stone that looked like jade. He said it was called, like, malachi or something... no idea how to spell it (can barely remember how he pronounced it) but i was wondering if you knew what he was talking about.
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Beagle
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ah yeah Malachite mal-la-kite it's a semi precious stone like Lapis, quartz and Amethyst. it's usualy pale green to lime green and it's actually known as poor man's Jade it's usualy found in California and Mexico although quality stuff is hard to come by in certain countries so they'll pay very well for it.
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yup, that was exactly it. thanks
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Nice. Don't have any gemstones to speak of but those are very nice looking.

If I remember right my birthstone is an plain opal, I believe.
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Beagle
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ah then you were born in october right? and there is no such thing as a plain opal

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just like no two people are alike there are no two Opals that are alike ^_^
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S-SnakeJ135
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Yep.

Well by plain I mean regular but I don't know to much about gemstones so can't complain about being wrong, doesn't matter now anyway. Interesting.
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