[Rockhounds] Chinese Crystals on E-Bay

[Kevin Winter]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Kevin Winter <therebelcountry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:31 PM,  <betdav97 at aol.com> wrote:
>  > ? Kevin,
>  >  ? Funny, quartz does have a conchoidal fracture, and can have bubbles
>  >  included in the crystal, some of which may contain water. The synthetic
>  >  crystals balls from China ave been pretty free of bubbles. It kind of sounds
>  >  like you may have bought a real crystal. However, if you are familiar with
>  >  glass bubbles and quartz bubbles, they are not the same.
>  >  Dave
>
>  I'm not familiar enough to say one way or the other, but these bubbles
>  have a definite swirling pattern to them, almost like someone was
>  pouring acrylic and stirred it but didn't let the bubbles settle out
>  before it set.  Thats what makes me suspicious.  They are all very
>  very small bubbles are are definitely gaseous.  There are quite a few,
>  at least dozens to hundreds of small bubbles smaller than a ballpoint
>  pen's ball.
>
>  On the other hand, if it is real, very cool =)  The specific one i
>  purchased had a seller registered in canada and with shipping it was
>  only about $30 (US) for a 2.6 Lb clear crystal.
>

In case anyone's interested, this seller is the one i purchased from
in the past:
http://stores.ebay.com/goodbeez-store

S/he has several points that are similar to what i received.