[Rockhounds] Hanksite

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

My Hanksite specimen is inside a ziploc type freezer baggie where I 
placed it as soon as I noticed some deterioration. It has not 
deteriorated any further in the past five years.

Kreigh



On Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009, at 17:27 America/Detroit, DonH wrote:

> Tim Jokela Jr. wrote:
>
>> There's an interesting potential experiment here!
>> Come up with ten different treatment methods, treat a couple or three 
>> hanksites with each, and compare over time!
>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Indeed, but it reaches a point where the treatment exceeds the 
> enjoyment of the specimen.  Also, it has become clear that the 
> long-term environment in which the specimen is stored will affect the 
> specimen no matter what the treatment--unless, perhaps, it is cast 
> inside an acrylic block.
>
> I know people who had halides stored for years on open display without 
> the slightest degradation.  I also know people who have taken 
> extraordiary Frankenstein measures and still lost their specimens, 
> being left with either a thin shell of spray-on acrylic and a pile of 
> white dust, or perhaps a dark grey former marcasite that decomposed 
> and ate through the label, the box, and was only stopped by the glass 
> shelf before it ate its acidic way to the center of the earth.
>
> There is no one correct answer, but it is definitely a good topic for 
> discussion among collectors, and something for everyone to think about 
> as they decide on the collection they want to build and what it takes 
> to curate that collection properly.
>
> Best,
> Don
>
>
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