[Rockhounds] Barium / Iron in iron miner

Kreigh Tomaszewski Kreigh at Tomaszewski.net
Tue Apr 1 18:10:54 PDT 2008


They still only come in two flavors, plaster and chalk.

Kreigh


Donald Tuttle wrote:
> 
> Pete,
> >prepration?
> Good spelling, even on April 1, should not be ignored. Tomorrow, if my ankle feels a little better, I'll relate a story from my undergrad days involving a biocasting experiment gone bad that ended up as "Goshdurnite, loc. unknown" in a mineralogy museum display case.
> 
> Barium cocktails might be improved if you substitute a (pearl) onion for the olive...
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Pmodreski at aol.com
> > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:53:36 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Barium / Iron in iron miner
> > To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> >
> > Don,
> >
> > Barium cocktails approved by the Friends of Mineralogy all show a  little
> > sticker which says, "No mineral specimens were harmed in the prepration  of this
> > product".
> >
> > (should I have saved this to post on Apr. 1?)
> >



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