[Rockhounds] Need help with Mineral ID

[Julie Siebel]

Ditto - I didn't love picking raspberries as a kid, but blackcaps were a 
real pain. (As I recall, the blackcaps were used for stamping the grade on 
meat in purple, e.g. "USDA Prime".)

Anyway, Axel, I just checked flickr - do a search for raspberry and you'll 
see the color that I'm talking about.

I don't know where Wes is located, so I'm not sure if he is thinking of the 
red sort or blackcaps.

Julie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Balmer" <albalmer at copper.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Need help with Mineral ID


> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:13:59 +0200, "Axel Emmermann"
> <axel.emmermann at pandora.be> wrote:
>
>>Raspberry is more purple than red, do we agree on that or does any of us
>>have a wrong color in mind?
>
> Where I grew up, raspberries are red, but there is a variety called
> "black raspberry" or "blackcap" which appear black but could be
> considered deep purple.
>
> -- 
> Al Balmer
> Sun City, AZ
>
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