[Rockhounds] So ya wanna be a mineral dealer, eh? - Part 2 - "How hard can it be?"

[Scott & Meesha Blair]

That's funny Tom:

Rubbing the okenite, and also, picking the pyrite cubes out of matrix.

On one hand, I guess it's good that there are some times and places where 
raw instinct to touch and feel still overrides our years of  cultural 
conditioning. But on the other hand, how is it that the thought of  "You 
break, you buy" never even enters their minds as they go to pull a specimen 
apart?

>> Repairing and repricing fossils broken by a child or adult
>> who mishandles specimens despite signs and repeated requests
>> to handle carefully.