[Rockhounds] Arkansas diamond hoax

[Tim Fisher]

Justin knows more about minerals than I will ever hope to know. He 
was referring to comments made by Becky the "host" of "Cash & 
Treasures". I agree, the mentality of that show is bass-ackwards. It 
should be about fun, adventure, family, getting dirty, etc., not "Hey 
what's THIS worth"? Every single valuation I have seen on that show 
was pure BS, except for the valuation put on one of Earl's florescent 
Franklin pieces by the museum (I forget which one) that she donated it to.

At 10:57 AM 3/17/2008, you wrote:
>pmodreski at aol.com wrote:
>
>>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....
>
>
>Oh... I was wondering how thorough the site is, so after reading 
>your link, I searched for other terms commonly associated with 
>fraud, such as turquoise, andesine, labradorite, and sunstone.  The 
>hit for "sunstone" brought up a posting about the Travel Channel 
>series on Cash & Treasure, though the sunstone mines were mentioned 
>in a positive manner.  However, the author digressed into some 
>subjective commentary about all the salted sites featured on the 
>show and the hostess's constant questions about "how much is that 
>worth?", and then he made the comment I quoted, apparently to 
>demonstrate some great naievete on her part.  Here is a link to the 
>whole article:  http://www.fakeminerals.com/archives/22
>
>It seems to me he is implying that fluorescent minerals are fake; by 
>the context, I don't know what else he could possibly be saying, 
>except that rocks don't *technically* "glow in the dark" (versus 
>being excited by UV light, or unless they are phosphorescing), but 
>again, from what he wrote, I doubt it.
>
>I'm wondering if I'm misreading the commentary or if anyone else has 
>the same impression.
>
>Don
>
>
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