[Rockhounds] Terlingua calcite

[Axel Emmermann]

Paul Garland has visited the site.
I'll CC him.

Paul, any two cents on the below message?

Cheers
Axel 

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> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens pmodreski at aol.com
> Verzonden: dinsdag 8 juli 2008 18:46
> Aan: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com; everbeek at ptd.net
> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Terlingua calcite
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> Here's the?comment that Earl Verbeek tried to post to the 
> List earlier today, but couldn't get recognized by the 
> Listserv.---Pete
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> I've had two people tell me that the source of the "real" 
> Terlingua calcite, the blue-fl. SW and pink-fl. LW material, 
> was the Little 38 mine (hope I got the name right), and ONLY 
> that one mine.? Both of them were there and collected the fl. 
> calcite from the dumps of this mine (one when some of the 
> dump material apparently was reprocessed as road aggregate), 
> so they have some firsthand knowledge.? Just passing it on FWIW.
> 
> ?
> 
> A somewhat similar problem concerns the "Terlingua-type" 
> calcite from San Saba, Texas.? Is that San Saba the city, or 
> somewhere in San Saba County?? I've never seen the locality 
> given to any useful degree of specificity.? Anyone out there 
> know where this stuff comes from?
> 
> ?
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> ????????????? Cheers-??? Earl?? (at?? everbeek at ptd.net?? )
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