thank you my friend

I appreciate you watching :)

thank you andy i appreciate your kindness

@@lapidarydave Thanks man, you've made a looooong Winter much better, theres a great agate,jasper, fossil wood and opal area 2 miles from my house...buuut 4 to6 inches of frozen snow and ice are keeping me away! I don't want to end up a weird story in the local news..''Local Man Dies while Rockhouding" is not the headline I want to be my epitaph. Thanks again bro you ROCK!

They greedy

Who do you buy from or what’s your store?

unfortunately, I do not get his contact information but he would be very easy to get a hold of through contacting mindat and asking for the information of the gentleman selling the books at mineral city

good question i’m not sure

i decided to google and found that lapis lazuli is a composite rock that contains calcite, pyrite, lazurite, and other sodalites. lazurite is just specifically one of the deeper blue mineral components and makes up the bulk of lapis lazuli. the more ya know

hey, thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate it. I wish I had some kind of glamorous story about how I fight off a gator while mining some crystals but what happened is I got drunk at my aunts house when I was taking care of my mother who was in hospice at the time I slipped and fell and hit my hand on a toilet, which then exploded it. Cut me to the bone and they didn’t do a very good job of stitching me up, I think they gave me three or four stitches for the whole wound. Anyway, I did have nerve damage for a while. I did a lot of massage for it and I’m a musician so high have pretty good coordination in my hand so I think that helped her to heal my pointer finger still goes numb if I play music without stretching it, but it goes away after a few moments I got really lucky I could’ve damage myself to where I couldn’t play again. Time will tell if the damage gets worse as I get older, but in the meantime, I’m super thankful.

sweet deal

you too my friend

@@lapidarydave Thank you Dave

You ain't seen the Smithsonian collections.

@@nobodysbaby5048 Yes, I have actually. Granted they have the best singles donated BUT 80% - 90% is hidden away in drawers in the back only accessible by researchers. The gem shows are loaded with dealers and also a lot of the actual miners with trays or tables of affordable examples to gawk over the fine details. That's like the GIA who does not photograph what all they have in the vault for anybody to see online. Most Virgin Valley is in the diggers houses in a dome.

I’m a little surprised that sprite doesn’t but don’t be surprised with me and my friend I am actually pretty ignorant about most of the stuff at the Gemshow. Sometimes I feel a little bit unqualified, but then again, I never claim to know anything I just love it.

they facet it often

Matthew, you’re a bad ass you don’t have to be sorry for anything you’re super right about what you said I appreciate everything you comment your brilliant

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