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		<title>Messel Fossil Pit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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The Messel Pit (German: Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel, (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about 35 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bituminous shale was mined there. Because of its plethora of fossils, it has significant geological and scientific importance. After almost becoming a landfill, strong  local resistance eventually stopped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbow Ridge Opal Mine, Virgin Valley, Nevada</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Rainbow Ridge Opal            Mine
Virgin Valley, Nevada
Rainbow Ridge Opal Mine is located in Northwest Nevada,            approximately 135 miles from Winnemucca, Nevada, and approximately 100        [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Rockhounding</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the NY State Museum&#8217;s webpage on amphiboles:
Discovery of New Mineral Species
Click here for site
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		<title>New mineral found in moon meteorite &#8211; hapkeite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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WASHINGTON — A chunk of the moon that landed on Earth as a  meteorite contains a new mineral, which scientists have named after a  researcher who years ago predicted the unusual process that formed the  material.
Grains of the material, made of iron and silicon, were found in  pieces of a meteorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Ida our missing link?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 05:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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http://www.revealingthelink.com/more-about-ida/the-film
Atlantic Productions
The Link is a feature-length documentary film made by the award-winning Atlantic Productions with exclusive access to Ida and the team of scientists who have examined her. The film shows how microtomography, CT scans and X-ray techniques were used to examine and recreate a 3D image of the creature, revealing that this early primate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A giant fossil sea monster found in the Arctic and known as &#8220;Predator X&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cool Video about this new find and article below.




Video 

http://link.history.com/services/link/bcpid14854730001/bclid14868740001/bctid16377487001


HISTORY UNVEILS PREDATOR X
The two-hour special PREDATOR X premieres on HISTORY; on Sunday, March 29 at 8pm ET/PT. On the remote archipelago of Svalbard, just 800 miles from the North Pole, a team of paleontologists from the University of Oslo Natural History Museum, have made a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock Hound Run Report 11-8-07 to 11-11-07</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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Thanks Dick, baby is 3 weeks old and SHE   is doing fine.  Having to get used to 4am feedings again but all worth it!  

Hi Gary hope your life is going  well, new baby and all. Here is the trip report from my last trip and a link to  the video I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man nearly tosses 4.38-carat diamond- MURFREESBORO, Ark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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MURFREESBORO, Ark. &#8211; Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park, but on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond.
Johnson, 36, made the dig Saturday at the park and left his equipment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen finds 2.93-carat stone at diamond park !</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press

MURFREESBORO, Ark. &#8212; Walking along a path taken by thousands of others at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, Nicole Ruhter noticed something everyone else had missed &#8212; a tea-coloured, 2.93-carat diamond.
Ruhter, 13, of Butler, Mo., said she would name her find the &#8220;Pathfinder Diamond&#8221; after pulling what she described as a broken pyramid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico&#8217;s Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals)-largest natural crystals ever found!</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/regular-postings/mexicos-cueva-de-los-cristales-cave-of-crystals-largest-natural-crystals-ever-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giant Crystal Cave&#8217;s Mystery Solved
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
April 6, 2007
                                          It&#8217;s &#8220;the Sistine [...]]]></description>
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