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09/03/2017 02:58:59 AM · #26
Originally posted by scalvert:

My guess is a yellow quartzite, but I was waiting to see if Cory would show up with an expert opinion. It's been decades since my days of instant rock ID.

And geology is such a fast-evolving science. :P
09/03/2017 09:34:30 AM · #27
Originally posted by scalvert:

My guess is a yellow quartzite, but I was waiting to see if Cory would show up with an expert opinion. It's been decades since my days of instant rock ID.


Cory AND Shannon!! This is a good thread, indeed!
09/03/2017 11:01:28 AM · #28
Originally posted by vawendy:

Cory AND Shannon!! This is a good thread, indeed!

Either this rocks or there goes the neighborhood.
09/03/2017 11:03:12 AM · #29
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

And geology is such a fast-evolving science. :P

The science is pretty much the same, but my memory... not so much. Back in my heyday, a North Carolina jeweler challenged people to ID 10 gemstones in a glass case. They were all uncommon items like iolite, spinel, and tsavorite, and there were no restrictions on who coud try, so a lot of other jewelers entered. I got 7 out of 10, and a couple I was friends with (both gemologists) got 8 out of 10. Nobody else did better than 4. I was 14 years old at the time.

Message edited by author 2017-09-03 11:13:56.
09/03/2017 10:17:17 PM · #30
Originally posted by scalvert:

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

And geology is such a fast-evolving science. :P

The science is pretty much the same, but my memory... not so much. Back in my heyday, a North Carolina jeweler challenged people to ID 10 gemstones in a glass case. They were all uncommon items like iolite, spinel, and tsavorite, and there were no restrictions on who coud try, so a lot of other jewelers entered. I got 7 out of 10, and a couple I was friends with (both gemologists) got 8 out of 10. Nobody else did better than 4. I was 14 years old at the time.

Impressive. And yet you went on to become a... a... Well, not a jeweler or a geologist. :P :)
09/03/2017 10:23:59 PM · #31
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by scalvert:

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

And geology is such a fast-evolving science. :P

The science is pretty much the same, but my memory... not so much. Back in my heyday, a North Carolina jeweler challenged people to ID 10 gemstones in a glass case. They were all uncommon items like iolite, spinel, and tsavorite, and there were no restrictions on who coud try, so a lot of other jewelers entered. I got 7 out of 10, and a couple I was friends with (both gemologists) got 8 out of 10. Nobody else did better than 4. I was 14 years old at the time.

Impressive. And yet you went on to become a... a... Well, not a jeweler or a geologist. :P :)


Drat... no discount on jewels?? sigh.
09/04/2017 12:18:00 AM · #32
Hah! Shoot it again and stick it in the challenge :-)
09/04/2017 10:01:21 AM · #33
LOL!
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