[Rockhounds] Fl. marbles

[betdav97 at aol.com]

Pete,
? I forgot about the saying when you start rock collecting; buy a bag
of marbles and leave one every time you pick up a rock. When you 
have "lost" all your marbles, you are a rock collector. Since we used
to have a lot of marble factories in this state, I believe somewhere
between 17 and 23, depending upon which reference, every now and 
than, we dig in the old dumps at the former factories for fluorescent slag
and marbles, after all, I have to replenish my supply, or I really would
be certifiably nuts.
dave


-----Original Message-----
From: pmodreski at aol.com
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:18 pm
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Fl. marbles



That suggestion isn't really all that helpful, Dave, because as is well known, 
most of?us long-time rockhounds have already lost all their marbles.? Maybe some 
of the newer ones will still have some, though.



-----Original Message-----
From: betdav97 at aol.com
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 8:36 am
Subject: [Rockhounds] Fl. marbles



Since we are on the topic of fluorescence, try some of your old
marbles, a lot will flouresce quite nicely due to the uranium salts
that were used to color them; some are still warm under a geiger
counter also.
dave





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