[Rockhounds] Morocco's Trilobite Economy

[Tim Jokela Jr.]

Nice article. It would be interesting to have a peek into one of those 
fossil "preparation" warehouses.

You should do a follow-up article, analyzing what percentage of those 
fabulous Moroccan trilobites are complete fakes, painted, glued, plastered, 
and carved... has to be a nice big chunk of that $40 million dollar output, 
but is it 10% or 90%?

That's an article I'd love to read.

Cheers,

T


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From: "Sicree, Andrew, Ph.D." <sicree at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:43 AM
Subject: [Rockhounds] Morocco's Trilobite Economy


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> Fellow Rockhounds:
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> The most recent issue of Saudi Aramco World (March/April 2009)
> has an article (mineral photos by John Passanaeau, text by me)
> titled "Morocco's Trilobite Economy."   You might find this article
> about Moroccan importers of fossils and mineral interesting to read.
>
> Subscriptions to Aramco World are free - comes out four times per
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> Sincerely,
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> Andrew
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