[Rockhounds] Smelter Nickel

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From: John Junkroski <jpjunk at mc.net>
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Smelter Nickel


I took a couple of photos. If anyone is interested I'll forward them. 
 
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John 
 
On Jan 6, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Lawrence Rush wrote: 
 
> OK...this time I DO have a real puzzle.................. 
> 
> In the 1980's, I used to attend a swap session every summer in New > 
Hampshire. For several years there, a gentleman would approach me > (he 
did not have a booth), and offer to trade me a Nickel specimen. > These 
came out of a smelter somewhere, and were attractive, being > kind of 
globular, and kind of dendritic, and shiny metallic. It was > maybe 
4x8cm in size. No label, and I wasn't sophisticated enough to > ask for 
one. 
> 
> I re-traded one of these (don't remember what happened to the rest) > 
to a friend in Arkansas. That owner died and this particular one > 
recently showed up on an auction site on the web, and was sold to > 
another collector. Since it had my label on it, he contacted me for > 
locality information. I know nothing about the specimen or the > person 
who originally had it. 
> 
> I
s there any member who knows anything about this trader? Would > 
anyone know where Nickel might have been smelted in the 1980's, and > 
how it might have got out into the hands of a mineral trader? I > would 
like to be able to add something to the label besides the > specimen 
(and my) name. 
> 
> Thanks.....Larry Rush 
> 
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