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Post by itsandbits on Dec 25, 2012 17:14:59 GMT -5
Only got the one box. Didn't weigh it, but it seemed to be well over 20 lbs. it was 27lbs when it left here(BC) Lloyd
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 23, 2012 22:49:42 GMT -5
I put afew of the same and a couple of slabs in the box when it was here in BC so I hope everyone is taking a peice to try out; I love it
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 20, 2012 0:31:44 GMT -5
I don't think at a dollar a lb. you can compare gem olivine and "gem" lawsonite :<) I think the apples and oranges are really getting mixed up in this discussion. I have never had someone offer me a mercedes or jaguar for a buck. If someone offers me something for a buck, and I expect to get a silk purse out of it, the fool is me; allthough this stuff is underpriced in my opinion.
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 19, 2012 1:27:53 GMT -5
As to the Lawsonite Living in BC, every second rock I trip over is granite, and for anyone that has ever worked granite, or fractured it with a hammer, or been trying to coax a cab out of a nice pink peice and had it fall apart in their hands, all I can say is, IT AIN'T GRANITE, and you know it!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 18, 2012 2:47:39 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :nono:
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 12, 2012 23:34:55 GMT -5
i must admit I took advantage of Kris at H2M Mining when the offer of some test material was made and I am TOTALLY satisfied with it, so much in fact that I ordered another mfrb of material to look at some of the other material; then ordering another mfrb after that. People have different tastes and if the stone was a little different in colour but of the gem quality it is; goes with the variance in the colour of the material, it didn't bother me as there is really no standard set for this stuff yet. The communication and material I have recieved have all been first class and I would happily let H2M Mining supply me with hundreds of pounds of material, sight unseen, if i could grind it up fast enough :<)))) Keep up the good work guys.
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 11, 2012 23:52:17 GMT -5
real nice
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 10, 2012 23:33:30 GMT -5
great looking tools
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 10, 2012 20:21:14 GMT -5
did I buy enough to retire after the announcement??!!!!!!!!!!! Probably not!!!! LOL I know it`ll be a lot of fun anyway, it sure is nice stuff to work.
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 10, 2012 20:16:46 GMT -5
that looks like the tiger mosquito I smacked into the wall last year; should I go look for a hole there :')
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 10, 2012 14:41:52 GMT -5
did I buy enough to retire after the announcement??!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 9, 2012 1:15:44 GMT -5
there is a few different names for them like girasol, or jelly, cherry or crystal you have a mix of mexican opal; some is cantera; opal in matrix, fire opal; the bright red stuff, and precious opal; the kind with POC in them.
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 7, 2012 20:33:22 GMT -5
there was apardy goin on; that's why they came out this way, dino didn't chew his food :<)))
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 7, 2012 15:50:58 GMT -5
ceeeuuuueetttt; maybe give them a quick spray with clear enamel so they are't scratchy on the neck
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 5, 2012 16:21:12 GMT -5
Itsandbits – The planet is currently building up heat at the rate of ~3 Hiroshima bombs per second. and unfortunately, that is in spite of the oceans; which basically regulate the external heat of the whole planet and atmosphere, storing all the energy they can, buried deep down where it takes 1200 years to circulate. So the future may be bright but probably from all the fires.
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 5, 2012 16:04:55 GMT -5
that is what I would call "ambitious"!!!
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 4, 2012 20:05:22 GMT -5
Maybe someone with bewtter math skills than me can do an estimate of the amount of energy it would take to rais ethe temperature just 1 degreeNow apply the laws of conservation to it and think about the storms, in the form of typhoons, tornados, hurricanes, blizzards, and such that will be above average and more frequent. Oh look, here's another example of a historic storm that happened today. www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/324516/fears-of-more-deaths-in-typhoon-hit-philippines
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 4, 2012 12:25:36 GMT -5
I am not denying anything about the earths natural cycles or calamities that have and will effect it or ignoring them; they are a fact. It is also a fact though that we are pillaging it's resources for short term monetary gain and are going to leave a poisoned and spent planet in our wake. This is what bothers me. I'm not blaming any person of course but to deny this fact, or bury it under BS, or say; oh well, a better world awaits me, is to deny our responsibilities to future generations. Noone that will take the time to look around them can honestly say we have not done this. We have put ourselves in the unenviable position of having to save ourselves from ourselves and no amount of firepower or bluster is going to do anything. Maybe it will hasten the end but if survival of us as a viable species is the aim, we need to wake up. Do you have any thought as to how much energy it will take to reclaim all the most usable farmland we have buried in concrete and asphalt. We may as well have locked it away in a vault when things go sideways. I don't believe in any "better world" but I do believe that a lot of us; no-one on this forum of course, are going to come back as part of dung beetles :<)
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 3, 2012 10:24:58 GMT -5
like any disease; nature will take care of us too, Is that how you want the human race to be remembered, not me! So much for being the most intelligent thing that ever lived. Greed has ruined our world and now that we are trained, and dependant, our master; money; which has no concience, or morals, will drive us to near extinction. Those of us that do survive will have more of a problem than the cave man did in trying to eke out an existence in a poisoned world we left behind, There will be danger in everything, the air and water which are survival itself, may not even support life as we know it. Yes; we had no part in this...........
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Post by itsandbits on Dec 3, 2012 10:03:52 GMT -5
Beautiful! I think it has to be older than 40 years though. Like by at least 60 million years. Although I'm only 62 and often called a dinosaur. ;D ;D I've never seen one that colour; you're not going to cut it up at all are you?
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