Rourke,
[] Conglomerate is a formation of stones that have been been welded
together with heat and pressure mostly following major deposition by
glacial activity. They are generally of the rounded variety of stone
like from stream beds or moraines. Where Breccias is the rough
angular type of mixture. You must have thought that because there was
seepage of quartz into the area in some pockets along the Bertrandite
that it was erroneously a conglomerate. I have and showed a few of
those rare stones that were cut with druzy from the quartz pockets.
Not enough pressure and heat was applied to this area to turn them
into metamorphic rocks. If you did not watch the video clips the
stones are most definitely not conglomerate. The surface looks like
pudding with the various chemical soup that was seeped into the area
and congealed into a stone that when held resembles more a
sedimentary. Which it is not. Yet So. Utah is mostly sedimentary of
the Navajo and Mount Carmel formations. I say to you it is about time
to learn about Utah. In particular learn So. Utah geology. The Wah
Wah mountains between Beaver Utah and Milford Utah are known to be a
major area that is filled with various silcates. If silicate is not
the major component of Opal, Then there is no opal even in Australia,
which there is. You don’t even have to become Mormon.
Now another thing you would find if you were in the South West USA is
a deposit of stone that makes most home owners cuss vehemently. It is
called caliche. It was deposited as ancient Lake Bonneville receded.
Anyone who has had to deal with digging only a few inches down in
their yard in the SW hits this nice deposit. Some areas are softer
than others, but that doesn’t mean much when it takes a jack hammer
or more to break through it. This is like Tiffany Stone. A lot of
what is being sold today and in particular on EBay is the soft crap
and I would not have it. (Not all diamonds are of gem quality) The
good stuff is hard to come by. It is as hard as caliche when you get
the right stuff. If the proverbial rock hound that had collected for
50 years in the area really knew the Milford Utah area, he would
know that. Does that person live there or only travel periodically to
the rock shows in Tucson and Quartzite? As far as the mythical
Tiffany goes, she is still alive today and in an old peoples home in
St. George Utah. Her father died back in 1992. Again if that rock
hound had been in and around Milford he would know this.
Morganite is a fake stone!!! How could it be anything but a
gimmick by oops a little known obscure gemmologist named Kunz, named
it. He named it after his good friend JP Morgan. Can’t be say it
isn’t so. That has to be a myth since the world according to ROURKE!
has never heard of this kind of nomenclature before. (I wish you could
see my Chesire cat grin at the moment)
Just like Bixby was the one who originally stumbled on Bixbite. I
notice you are not commenting on the existence of Bixbite or that it
was named after the man who found it. Since that is known world wide
and CERTIFIED by GIA and all other World Wide testing labs, it has
gone un-disputed by you or Leonid. It is also known as red emerald. Is
that any worse than the various colors of garnet and the names they
give that colorful Quartz? After all all those nice stones in the
garnet family are nothing more than Quartz.
Bixbite of gem quality only comes from that one mine in the Wah Wah
mountains. Why else is it known as the rarest gemstone in the world?
OOPS could it be that something within 20 miles of Bixbite is also
rare due to a small deposit?
I also wonder if you are not really a cook at IHOP? You sure flipped
on GIA when you were found to be in error about them CERTIFYING these
stones. Yeah I call it a flip worthy of any pancake turner. Maybe you
could find a good career as a politician. I’m not disputing you or
Leonid are jewelers, I have not seen your work so it must not exist by
your logic again. As for gimmick and correct names, then lets call
them as they should be. It is not Diamond it is carbon. There is no
marketing gimmicks used by De Beers ever. In fact no stone has had any
person ever try to sell them. Diamonds/carbon has never been given
romantic meaning or used by some new age guru for some spiritual
meaning. No gem has ever had one single thing ever said about it to
market or give it new age meaning, or sell it. ANY one who deals in
diamonds must be a shyster.
That would be a gimmick and marketing. If you personally got stung
by purchasing Cal Silica don’t take it out on others when you deem
sight unseen something as fake. Also Corundum is the proper name for
sapphires and rubies. Never use those marketing names. Emerald is
Beryl along with many others in that family. Pearls are Nacre which
is a form of calcium carbonate. No one has ever given a stone a
different name from the scientific name. Australia never marketed
their diamonds as Champagne diamonds. There is only one variety of
Australian opal, no boulder, no Korite, no black, no lightening
ridge. It is only a mere silicate. Marketing of opals as anything
other than silicates is wrong. It has never been referred to as
anything else but silicates by those in the know. That all to use
your logic. Until you flip on your opinions again.
To your concentrated effort to only discredit me and two of the
stones I liked in a fun little thread, I call your comments a huge
massive steaming pile of male bovine solid exhaust. Go back to
school and learn geology before you spout off you know an area. Then
travel to that area yourself and see it up close and personal. Hell
if you go in the summer I will take you personally to the sites and
to the mayors of the So. Utah towns so you can quiz them in person. i
can even take you to meet Tiffany in person. I might even take you to
see a location of note. On Cedar Mountain there is a deposit of
Kimberlite. Too bad it is on Forest Service/Federal land. I know it
well having lost a good pair of hiking boots in the slime of the
volcanic tube exposed during a construction project through the
forest. But Kimberlite must also be fake. There are no deposits in
North America. Murfressboro Arkansas, Northern Canada.
I also never said to buy them. I did not market them. But through me
standing up to what comes across as a Internet bully or as my son
calls this behavior a “TROLL” You and I have made them better known.
I also suggest you look me up via the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Call
or email Fred. You don’t even need his last name. He can tell you
that I have lived for many years in the area. These days I’m known as
the copper lady. But I’m still very well known in So. Utah of which I
talk about.
I have a hard time Rourke understanding how you came up with a cal
silica connection when there is none. I also scratch my wide posterior
wondering how a new age twist came in. When did you a jeweler become
so against marketing? Does your work sell without showing it or
saying what it is? You must be hidden in a small space in a basement
to avoid people knowing your work exists for fear of that evil
gimmicky marketing and selling that comes from it. I also wonder why
you feel the need to attack me? What do you gain? Are your eyes
brown? How old are you?
Lastly Why no comments about coprolite? Is that not fake? It hasn’t
been tested. I doubt there is a gemological institute that would
examine it and give a report. I showed that as well. Yet I know many
institutions that have given scholarly reports on it. Could it be
that geological labs and Universities are almost as good or better
than gemological Institutes? Or do they know something you don’t?
