[Rockhounds] Stone Consolidation

[Brenda Van Dyke]

Neal,

Sorry, no help here, but I wanted to tell you I really like your quotes!

Brenda


On 12/2/08, Neal Hazen <batsondebelfry at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have some Peruvian chrysocolla. As a 5 lb mass, it is stable enough.
> However, it won't slab without crumbling. I am looking for specific advice
> on methods of stabilizing this material before I put it in the slab saw. I
> have washed the rock in detergent, then soaked it in acetone to prepare it.
> It's beautiful enough to be worth the cost of cyanoacrylate, if that is the
> best way to go. I am seeking a stabilizer that will give a minimum of 15mm
> penetration. The folks who stabilize turquoise seem to have the procedure
> and stabilizer locked down pretty well, but I have been unable to find a
> discussion of their technique. I dislike stabilizing any rock intended for
> making into cabochons, but that is the only way this material will ever be
> anything other than a paperweight.
>
> Neal Hazen
>
> "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to
> take away everything you have."
>
> Thomas Jefferson
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> 'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here
> in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
> treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to
> discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or
> origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an
> American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance
> here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an
> American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have
> room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we
> have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American
> people.'
>
> Theodore Roosevelt 1907
>
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Brenda Van Dyke, Editor
Arrowhead News
Indian Mounds Rock & Mineral Club
Wyoming, Michigan
www.indianmoundsrockclub.com
brenick at gmail.com


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