[Rockhounds] Arkansas diamond hoax

[pmodreski at aol.com]

You must have read or browsed that site much more intensively than I did, Don, because I can't find anything on there about rocks glowing or not glowing in the dark; I just re-browsed throught his last year's postings, I don't see anything about that....

Cheers, Pete

(might that not have been in reference to someone's ideas about what "crystal energy" makes rocks do???)


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From: DonH <donhalterman at verizon.net>
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Sent: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:52 am
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Arkansas diamond hoax


pmodreski at aol.com wrote: 
> > This was reported on the www.geology.com website, referring to the story above.? I'd never known of the fakeminerals.com website before. 
 
Just checked it out real quick... I wonder about the credibility of the site's author when he posts comments like this: 
 
"Becky. Rocks do not glow in the dark. Really. None of them. Well, some of them, but not any of the ones you’ve seen. Becky. Rocks. They do not glow in the dark. No. No, they do not." 
 
What this guy think he was seeing when they were demonstrating all those fluorescent minerals? I cannot imagine an experienced mineral collector who has not at least heard of the concept of fluorescence and phosphorescence. If he is trying to say something else, then he is not getting his point across, which is just as bad. 
 
Sounds like this fellow needs to get his own act together before he passes judgement on others. 
 
Don 
 
 
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