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High value diamond auctions of 2008
By:Mark.
18 notable high value diamond auctions of 2008 by Sotheby auction house.
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Rockhounding in Ouachita National Forest
By:Ritika.
Rockhounder can carry out the process of rockhounding in Ouachita National Forest either as a hobby or recreational activity. Ouachita National Forest is located in the heart of the Ouachita Mountains through the west central portion of Arkansas and the southeastern portion of Oklahoma. The Ouachita National Forest is the south's oldest national forest, compromising more than 1.6 million acres. Rockhounding sites at Ouachita National Forest have abundant rock and quartz veins. Ouachita National Forest has many excellent mineral collecting rockhounding sites both inside the forest lands as well as in private land areas adjacent to the forest areas. Ouachita National Forest is one of the best sites for recreational rockhounders interested in quartz rockhounding....
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Rockhounding for Quartz and Minerals in Arkansas
By:Mark.
Arkansas is the best place for quartz crystal rockhounders. Arkansas rockhounding sites also have other rare and important minerals and gemstones for rockhounding. Some to mention in this direction are diamonds, wavellite, fossils, dolomite and exotic minerals. Arkansas rockhounding sites have abundant sources of minerals and gemstones that are sure to keep rockhounders and mineralogists busy in their activity of hunting and collecting. Quartz being a vital mineral on earth is found in abundance in the Arkansas region. The second abundant mineral found in the Arkansas region is wavellite....
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Places and Resources for Rockhounding
By:Ritika.
Rock hounding as a hobby often starts in the most innocuous of ways. Generally it starts with you finding something on the ground and it turns out to be a gemstone or a very pretty example of a colored rock. Soon you get tempted to find another and another and if you hit a lucky patch you could get addicted to the activity. But a newcomer must keep in mind that every day is not a Sunday and after that first lucky hit there may be periods of lull where you get nothing. Don't give up, take the time out to study and learn all about rocks, their recognition and identification....
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Famous Diamond Pictures
By:Mark.
48 Stunning images of world Famous Diamond Pictures
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Equipment needed for Rockhounding
By:Ritika.
Rockhounding is a term used for the activity of rock hunting or collecting rocks and mineral samples from nature. This is more as recreation and hobby oriented and not from the commercial point of view. It has humble beginning as many die-hard rockhounders will tell you. Walking along they chanced upon a beautiful stone, which led them to look for more and more and suddenly they were avid hunters. ...
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Sapphire Pictures
By:Mark.
Top 10 Sapphire Pictures
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Rockhounding in California
By:Ritika.
California is abundant with geological forces where mineralogists and gemologists can rockhound for the largest variety of rocks and minerals. The rock and mineral wealth of California has made California the most interesting and one of the oft visited places for rockhounders. ...
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Rockhounding and Gemology
By:Mark.
Rockhounding helps gemologists and mineralogists hunt and discover minerals and precious gemstones like jasper, opal, agate, turquoise, geodes, zircon, black spinel, garnet, varieties of quartz, topaz and tourmaline and so on. People can choose either popular sites for rockhounding which normally have the ease of accessibility or can hunt and dig and then choose rare sites where there is possibility of getting better samples as they would not have been visited by all rockhounders. Fossicking is another technical term used to refer to the process of searching for gemstones and rockhounding which is used when looking for fossils, mineral specimens etc. ...
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What is Rockhounding
By:Ritika.
Rockhounding refers to the activity of collection of minerals and rocks from nature. The persons carrying out the activity of rockhounding are termed rock hounders or prospectors....
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Gemstone Jewelry Pictures
By:Mark.
Gemstone and Jewelry Gallery
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Modern Crystallography
By:Ritika.
The origins of crystallography lie in morphology which deals with the study of mineral crystals and also anisotropy which details the physical attributes of mineral crystals.
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Technique of Recrystallization in Crystallography
By:Ritika.
Recrystallization is the technique of purifying solids based on their different solubility. That is, recrystallization deals with the cleaning method or the transformation of a crystal structure, as a result of the change in external factors, for example temperature and pressure....
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Healing with gemstones
By:Mark.
Examples of illnesses that allegedly can be healed.
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