Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Mineralogy / May 2004

Great as gemstones and only wieners will complain about the little bit
radioactivity, real men don't have a problem with it.

Don't post messages to sender on the news.wplus.spb.ru server.  I did today
4 times and each went to the sender with a WIN32 virus attached

Does anyone know of any good mineralogical sites in Helsinki or
Turku, Finland?  I have in mind museums, rock shops, and collecting
sites?

Found a good site for pictures:  http://www.kreiderenterpr.741.com

The ore microscopist P. Ramdohr peppered his textbooks with remarks which
are frequently worth reproducing. Concerning the mineralogical vagaries of
PGM inclusions in Pt nuggets, he wrote: 'Practically every nugget of
different origin exhibits new, unexplained phenomena'. (The ore ...

Could anybody tell me why there are exactly 32 crystallographic point
groups. These groups are listed e.g. in
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CrystallographicPointGroups.html
I do understand that this set can be derived from the 3-dimensional

Here is a website of a private individual that buys, sells and trades in
dinosaur footprints, gemstones and Franklin flourescent minerals:
http://www.kreiderenterprises.741.com/

Second largest Pt nugget from Urals (12x10x8 cm; 6200 g) on display at:
http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/NHM/Mineral/pic/22Platin01.htm
J.J.

i had a guy send me an email with the typical diamond email scam "hi
im joe african" and my (insert false name of relative here) died
recently he had a huge reserve of diamonds and i need your help to get
them, and will be willing to share 10% of millions with you. i emailed

colored gemstone faceter looking for partner or buyer, some gemstones listed
on the webpage address below:
http://www.kreiderenterprises.741.com/

I would be interested in any fee sites for rockhounding in the Idaho
or Montana area, possibly Eastern Washington also.  I am familiar with
the fee sites for fish fossils near Kemmerer Wy.  I'd appreciate any
suggestions people might have.

I live in Southern California and have been gold prospecting for about 15
years. I am now looking at prospecting for gems in pegmatites and am looking
ofr any information available to show what you look for to identify pocket
minerals? Is there a certain mineralization color ? Also ...