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

[Tom Corson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott & Meesha Blair [mailto:spocksrocks at hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:59 AM
> To: corson at infodyn.com; Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing 
> list for rock and gem collectors
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] So ya wanna be a mineral dealer,eh? 
> - Part 2 - "How hard can it be?"
> 
> 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?

When it's kids, it's easily understandable. They just don't grok "don't
touch" or "you break, you buy". Ironically, in my friends case, must to the
most egregious okenite rubbers are adults! I haven't the slightest idea
why....

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