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		<title>Gemology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Gem Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Gem Trade Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Gemmological Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gemologists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gemstone Buyer and Collectors Guide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gemology&#8230;
gemology links in alphabetical order
Accredited Gemologists  Association 
is a nonprofit research, education and ethics organization  benefiting professional and avocation gemologists as well as consumer  interest
Alexandrite  Gemstone Buyer and Collectors Guide
history, sources, valuation and  collection of alexandrite gemstones. Topics also include chemical and physical  properties, mythology, and color change phenomena [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Mineral Club</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/club-rollcall-hellos/boston-mineral-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boston mineral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston rock club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston rockhound]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Boston Rockhounds!
The Boston    Mineral Club (BMC) was founded in 1936 to &#8220;promote the study    and collecting of rocks and minerals, to encourage friendly cooperation    among mineralogists and collectors, [and] to promote the study of mineralogy    and related arts and sciences coming within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Egyptians Inhabit the Grand Canyon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grand Canyon cover up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Canyon underground city]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[True or not, pretty interesting  
Remember how disgusted you felt when, in the closing scene of the  film, Raiders of The Lost Ark, the Ark of the Covenant – hidden  in an anonymous wooden crate – was consigned to a giant warehouse full  of similar looking crates?  Your reaction was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pyrite or Foolsgold</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/mineral-of-the-day/pyrite-or-foolsgold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foolsgold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[is it gold?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pyrite]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, is an iron sulfide with the formula FeS2.  This mineral&#8217;s metallic lustre and pale-to-normal, brass-yellow  hue have earned it the nickname fool&#8217;s gold because of its  resemblance to gold.  The color has also led to the nicknames brass, brazzle and Brazil, primarily used to refer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test For Gold In Pyrite</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/regular-postings/test-for-gold-in-pyrite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question:
In a nugget patch I&#8217;ve been working there is vein of green stone(chorite  shist). It really sounds off my metal detector. I think it is loaded  with pryrite. Is there a simple test for gold I can do? Also around this  vein is decomposed bedrock that has a lot of black sand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rockhound locations and stories wanted&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am looking to post about rockhounding places/trips from my readers-if its rockhounding, I&#8217;m interested!!!
Also stories as well as rockhounding news or just a shout from a local rockhound club.  My blog is as good as my submissions!
g-
RockHoundBlog@yahoo.com
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		<title>Diamond Saw</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/how-to/diamond-saw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diamond Saw Wont Cut- If your blade  still has diamond on it, and won&#8217;t cut, run a brick, concrete, old  aluminum oxide grinding wheel, or Obsidian about 3&#8243; thru the blade.  This will strip off any alloy that is covering the diamond particles  allowing them to cut. If you have no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTINITE &#8211; Gold Hill, Utah</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/regular-postings/austinite-gold-hill-utah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austinite is a member of the adelite-descloizite group, adelite subgroup, the Zn end member of the Cu-Zn series with conichalcite.  It is the zinc analogue of cobaltaustinite and nickelaustinite.  At one time “brickerite” was thought to be a different species, but it  is now considered to be identical to austinite.  Named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnet Cove Arkansas &#8211; Rockhounding</title>
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		<comments>http://rockhoundblog.com/regular-postings/magnet-cove-arkansas-rockhounding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arkansas Rockhounding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Magnet Cove! The most mineralized 5 square miles in Arkansas!
History of Collecting
Before 1820, locals recognized there was something different about  this area. Their compasses went haywire as they walked across the  ground. Then by the 1840&#8217;s people began to notice a variety of unusual  minerals. Later in the 1850&#8217;s many specimens had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Rockhounding</title>
		<link>http://rockhoundblog.com/rockhound-travel/illinois-rockhounding/</link>
		<comments>http://rockhoundblog.com/rockhound-travel/illinois-rockhounding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rockhound Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicago fossil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicago rockhound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicago Rockhounding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Mazon Creek fossil beds
The Mazon Creek fossils are conservation lagerstätten found near  Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are found in ironstone concretions, formed approximately 300 mya in the mid-Pennsylvanian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period. These concretions frequently preserve both hard and  soft tissues of animal and  plant materials, as well [...]]]></description>
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