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metalsmith
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It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 9, 2013 16:00:56 GMT -5

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Post by metalsmith on Feb 9, 2013 16:00:56 GMT -5

That's a quote

In fact, yet it does... it gets quite a lot better than this - just another synthetic, misnomer / trade-name. The fused dust of Mount St Helens. When I was there last it was an offence to take anything let alone 'mine' the dust for resale. Maybe that has relaxed? I doubt it.

Admittedly this is quite pretty, but is glass - according to one source I read and not obsidian / obsidianite as described in some of the posted items for sale.

Apparently this takes its colour from the chromium and copper in the dust - which doesn't go on to explain how there is red / blue / green / orange and maybe more...

Expensive recycled dust. Maybe its time to empty the vac. I know there is silver in there! ;D

www.ebay.com/itm/Mt-St-Helens-Helenite-12x10-Tpz-Ring-sz-7-Sterling-Silver-Handmade-Vt-/380570629569?_trksid=p2045573.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D27%26meid%3D5479679600596605638%26pid%3D100033%26prg%3D1011%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D190794444177%26

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Pat misunderstood rock expert Member since February 2012 Posts: 11,822	It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 9, 2013 21:59:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Pat on Feb 9, 2013 21:59:09 GMT -5 Years ago, I bought some faceted stones of obsidianite. Very pretty ... glass. It's okay with me. I like that the glass is from Mt. Helen's eruption.
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jakesrocks In Memoriam RIP Don Woodward AKA jakesrocks Member since April 2010 Posts: 12,696	It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 9, 2013 22:08:23 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jakesrocks on Feb 9, 2013 22:08:23 GMT -5 Hmmmm !! I have a couple of old green beer bottles. Anybody want to facet them ?
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Rockoonz misunderstood rock expert Member since August 2009 Posts: 11,454	It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 10, 2013 0:59:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rockoonz on Feb 10, 2013 0:59:09 GMT -5 Yep, Don, pretty much the same thing. Green glass. Lee
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It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 10, 2013 1:13:15 GMT -5

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Post by Rockoonz on Feb 10, 2013 1:13:15 GMT -5

I decided to contact the seller through this auction.
www.ebay.com/itm/Mt-St-Helens-Helenite-14x10-Emerald-Cut-Gem-Green-/380570625756?pt=Loose_Gemstones_1&hash=item589bc6e6dc
Told him I thought it would be good to include the words manmade glass in his listings. Wonder if he'll agree.

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It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 10, 2013 2:17:34 GMT -5

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Post by helens on Feb 10, 2013 2:17:34 GMT -5

I'm sure Mt St Helena melted plenty of green coke bottle glass in the eruption, but $43 for a silver set faceted ring?

The time spent faceting that glass is more than I put into a pendant and I sell them for $50. Other glass artists sell pendants for up to $200, and Tiffany carries a glass artist's line, with an ad in Vogue magazine... one 1.5" piece of blown glass, for $500, no chain.

$43 isn't the price of the faceting labor, and handcut/blown glass always sells for more than obsidian. Always - from a skilled glass artist, that is. If anything, they shorted themselves not calling it glass.

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It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 10, 2013 8:00:35 GMT -5

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Post by jamesp on Feb 10, 2013 8:00:35 GMT -5

There is no way some one melted that dust into glass,faceted it,set it,added 2 topaz and sell for $44.The ad is deceptive in it's reference to emerald,i mean emreld-what is emreld?Maybe it is a material i am not aware of.The other statement-made in America.I think something on that ring is not made in America if it only costs $44.Etsy angers me because of the Made in USA rules are broken a lot.I respect any material that has been artfully done by hand.It's the workmanship and skill that should be respected.Something ain't right about that ad,false i bet.

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It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 10, 2013 9:50:14 GMT -5

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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Feb 10, 2013 9:50:14 GMT -5

no such animal!

the minute amount of ash that they use in glass making to name the stuff they make as "Mt.Saint Helens glass" is so tiny that its just a touristy thing to make money.
It comes in as many colors as there is in glass.
there is no ash on that volcano that is silica rich enough to result in obsidian of any color or type

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jamesp Cave Dweller Member since October 2012 Posts: 36,602	It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 10, 2013 10:17:20 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jamesp on Feb 10, 2013 10:17:20 GMT -5 I am glad you said that Diane.I am out of my area of knowledge in the materials.But no one w/good sense is gonna do that much for $44.It is a fine looking ring.

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It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 10, 2013 12:01:36 GMT -5

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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Feb 10, 2013 12:01:36 GMT -5

there are USGS reports out on just this topic about Mt.Saint Helens obsidian/glass as that scam has been around since the last big blow out - scammers will use anything to make a buck!

obsidians will have color play in them and be shades of brick red, browns and blacks from translucent to opaque.
there are some areas that have a dull yellow color and that would be Yellowstone, which does not allow under any circumstance, the collection of that obsidian

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Fossilman Cave Dweller Member since January 2009 Posts: 20,718	It doesn't get any better than this... Feb 10, 2013 18:16:23 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fossilman on Feb 10, 2013 18:16:23 GMT -5 We live just a bit from Mount St. Helens and have seen the green rock for sale...I'm not paying the price they want-LOL....I have lots of dust from there and other stuff....
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