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	<title>RockHoundBlog &#187; Great Finds-specimens</title>
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		<title>Montana/Idaho RockHounding Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Gary, The article for my Montana/Idaho trip is attached.  I look forward to seeing it on your blog. Thanks! Jim Thanks Jim for submitting!  Here it is! Montana/ Idaho Adventure June 1st &#8211; 12th, 2011 Hi Everyone! Our big adventure of the summer was a trip to Montana and Idaho. I had planned this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Largest Emerald- Bahia Emerald</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/worlds-largest-emerald-bahia-emerald/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ownership Disputed Over 840-Pound, $400 Million Emerald FoxNews.com has picked up an article from The Wall Street Journal that reports a story about an 840-pound emerald. In the article, &#8220;Five People Claim Ownership of an 840-Pound $400M Emerald&#8221; we are told of a man who had original ownership of the large diamond. And, he kept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Agate</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/fire-agate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, this picture was taken by Tom Shearer.  You can see more of his rock pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tshearer/]]></description>
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		<title>FREE Rockhound Book!</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/free-rockhound-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While asking to do a bio on  John D. Marshall  he  kindly let me distribute FOR FREE his out of print/sold out book (The Other Lake Superior Agates) while we put something together!  The book- all 190 pages can be downloaded from the below link (it&#8217;s a PDF file which took 1 min to download). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Agate Mining Adventure at Deer Creek Arizona</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/fire-agate-mining-adventure-at-deer-creek-arizona/</link>
		<comments>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/fire-agate-mining-adventure-at-deer-creek-arizona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted by Jessica Dow&#8230; Please visit her website as well: http://www.differentseasonsjewelry.com/ This year Mark and I added a bit more excitement to our annual trip to the Tucson gem show with a pre-show detour to the Deer Creek fire agate mine. The mine owner extended a personal invitation to the mine’s “Deer Creek Fire Agate [...]]]></description>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[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 these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbow Ridge Opal Mine, Virgin Valley, Nevada</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/rainbow-ridge-opal-mine-virgin-valley-nevada/</link>
		<comments>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/rainbow-ridge-opal-mine-virgin-valley-nevada/#comments</comments>
		<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 miles from Lakeview, OR. The closest town is Denio, NV, which is 35 miles away. Denio Junction has reopened and food, fuel and rooms are available. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Rockhounding</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/new-york-rockhounding/</link>
		<comments>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/new-york-rockhounding/#comments</comments>
		<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]]></description>
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		<title>New mineral found in moon meteorite &#8211; hapkeite</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/new-mineral-found-in-moon-meteorite-hapkeite/</link>
		<comments>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/new-mineral-found-in-moon-meteorite-hapkeite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 that was discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Ida our missing link?</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/is-ida-our-missing-link/</link>
		<comments>http://rockhoundblog.com/great-finds-specimens/is-ida-our-missing-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 05:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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