From owner-rockhounds-digest@drizzle.com Sat Jan 26 16:18:57 2002 Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:16:01 -0800 From: rockhounds-digest Reply-To: rockhounds@drizzle.com To: rockhounds-digest@drizzle.com Subject: rockhounds-digest V2 #1137 rockhounds-digest Thursday, January 3 2002 Volume 02 : Number 1137 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:57:12 -0500 From: "Jane Davis" Subject: Re: My new noncommercial website about mineral collecting ;-> Paul, I enjoyed your site. LOL at the medical afflictions! I viewed it in Explorer and it seemed the small photos took a long time to come up but they came up as I was reading other pages. The pages I looked at all have different backgrounds, but the home page background did come up solid blue.. not sure if I did miss something there with IE, Great job, Jane D - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilmore" To: ; Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:10 PM Subject: My new noncommercial website about mineral collecting ;-> > Folks: > > I just launched my new tongue-in-cheek website about mineral collecting. > Give it a shot: > > http://people.ne.mediaone.net/paugilmo/page1a.html > > Also, how do I go about exchanging links with websites I like? Thanks. > > Paul Gilmore > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > ################################################################# > # Rockhounds@drizzle Mailing Alias: rockhounds@drizzle.com # > # Web: http://www.drizzle.com/~afox/rockhounds/ # > # Subscription Services: majordomo@drizzle.com # > ################################################################# > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:15:38 -0700 From: "Bob Loeffler" Subject: RE: mineral name pronounciation: author's prerogative or English orthography? If that is the purpose of the IMA, then why do we have this spelling problem? :-) Everyone should use the spelling that the IMA designates. Ok, I think that's the way I pronounce goethite also. I said a soft G sound but maybe I meant a hard G sound. (I was just trying to differentiate it from the english J sound as in "jump".) Bob - -----Original Message----- From: owner-rockhounds@drizzle.com [mailto:owner-rockhounds@drizzle.com]On Behalf Of Don Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:14 AM To: rockhounds@drizzle.com Subject: Re: mineral name pronounciation: author's prerogative or English orthography? Bob Loeffler wrote: > > I wish everyone could spell and pronounce mineral names the same; it would > make things much easier. Isn't that the purpose of the IMA? Pronounciation is a difficult issue; but I'd expect they could at least standardize the spellings. Science should have a lingua franca. > Lastly, how do all of you pronounce Goethite? I've heard many ways from > people, such as GO-thite, GO-ee-thite, GE-thite, GE-tite, GO-tite and > GER-tite (all of them with a soft-G sound as in the english word "wagon"). Yeesh, what an abomination. In my original post, I forgot to mention goethite as a prime example of the prnounciation problem. I pronounce it the same wau I pronounce the name of its namesake, the poet and mineral collector Goethe; that is, according to the Intemediate Student's Guide to German Grammar, Style, and Usage, the "oe" sound is enunciated "with the lips rounded as to form an 'o', the throat constricted, and the tongue pulled back in the mouth; the sound begins as if saying 'er' but stops just as the mouth begins to close to complete the 'r'." The initial "g" is hard, as in "good," and the "th" is simply a soft "t". I'm really not insufferable when it comes to such details. However, they do have a time and a place. What is most annoying, though, is when I choose to pronounce something as what I believe to be correct--such as "goethite" or "wollastonite"--and people correct me toward the wrong pronounciation! All the best, Don ################################################################# # Rockhounds@drizzle Mailing Alias: rockhounds@drizzle.com # # Web: http://www.drizzle.com/~afox/rockhounds/ # # Subscription Services: majordomo@drizzle.com # ################################################################# ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:58:08 EST From: ANNWB2@aol.com Subject: Re: RE: mineral name pronounciation: author's prerogative or English orthography? My understanding of the IMA is that they really don't care how you say it, just as long as it's spelled correctly. The process on voting for a new mineral does include the separate voting on the name itself. The new name shouldn't duplicate an existing name, unless the name is a redefinition of a formerly obsolete name and the name shouldn't be easily confusable with an existing name, etc. If named after a living person, the person needs to give his own approval, etc. There is no retroactive interest in mineral nomenclature and they only consider formal proposals directly submitted to them. Unless quartz goes through a redefinition, it'll never be an IMA-approved mineral. About half of the "accepted" species are not IMA-approved. This is through no fault in the mineral, they were just grandfathered. Van ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 19:13:08 -0600 From: Gary Brown Subject: Minisonic Tumbler Thingies Does anyone know of a place where I can get the tumbling containers for a Minisonic vibratory tumbler at a *reasonable* price? Thanks... gcb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:50:14 EST From: Lapidry@aol.com Subject: Re: Minisonic Tumbler Thingies - --part1_10f.a026b79.29667266_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/3/2002 8:12:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, catspaw@skypoint.com writes: > Does anyone know of a place where I can get the tumbling containers for a > Minisonic vibratory tumbler at a *reasonable* price? > Gary: Reasonable I don't know about but Kingsley North carries them. Long time no talk... Penfield and Walworth quarries are open again on a very limited basis. Penfield will be next in March or April. Dan Imel - --part1_10f.a026b79.29667266_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/3/2002 8:12:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, catspaw@skypoint.com writes:


Does anyone know of a place where I can get the tumbling containers for a
Minisonic vibratory tumbler at a *reasonable* price?


Gary:

Reasonable I don't know about but Kingsley North carries them.

Long time no talk... Penfield and Walworth quarries are open again on a very limited basis. Penfield will be next in March or April.

Dan Imel - --part1_10f.a026b79.29667266_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 21:46:30 -0600 From: Gary Brown Subject: AD: Sterling Hill NJ FLUORESCENTS Howdy all... the USGS folios from up in the attic have finally run out (except for the neat ones I'm keeping for myself ), so it's time for a bunch of Sterling Hill fluorescents and the ever-popular MasMils CD-ROMs. Here's what's up on eBay: The following are the "classic" willemite/calicite/franklinite mix from Sterling Hill, NJ. 3.5 pound piece: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1058288206 6 ounce piece: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1058292674 2 ounce piece: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1058295087 This piece is pretty much just willemite and franklinite. But, wow, what a long-term phosphorescence! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1058297829 I lucked out into some pieces of wollastonite from Sterling Hill, too. These aren't the usual little specs in matrix...these pieces are darn near pure wollastonite! 6.5 ounce piece: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1058302657 1 ounce piece: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1058303562 FINALLY... The one... The only... Accept no substitutes... De-worms dogs... Removes the scales from fish... Able to leap GPS co-ordinates in a single bound! Mas/Mils PLUS! 210,000 mine locations on a single disk. REMEMBER: you need a DeLorme disk to make this guy fly (not included!!!). http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1058311728 As ever, thanks! And a Happy New Year to you all! Regards, GcB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:37:58 -0800 From: "Rocks4u" Subject: Re: Minisonic Tumbler Thingies They sell them at Diamond Pacific (Barstow, CA) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Brown" To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:13 PM Subject: Minisonic Tumbler Thingies > Does anyone know of a place where I can get the tumbling containers for a > Minisonic vibratory tumbler at a *reasonable* price? > > Thanks... > gcb > > ################################################################# > # Rockhounds@drizzle Mailing Alias: rockhounds@drizzle.com # > # Web: http://www.drizzle.com/~afox/rockhounds/ # > # Subscription Services: majordomo@drizzle.com # > ################################################################# ------------------------------ End of rockhounds-digest V2 #1137 ********************************* ################################################################# # Rockhounds@drizzle Mailing Alias: rockhounds@drizzle.com # # Web: http://www.drizzle.com/~afox/rockhounds/ # # Subscription Services: majordomo@drizzle.com # #################################################################