treasure hunting
treasure hunting
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Jade rough Do you have a hankering to find some Jade but you do not want to travel to China or South America for it? Well you are in luck; you can just pick it off the ground from Jade Cove which is...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Turquoise rough Turquoise is possibly the most valuable, non-transparent mineral used in jewelry. It has been mined since at least 6000 BC by Egyptians. Like other opaque such as coral, turquoise ...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Emerald As with most gemstones the emerald can be created as the result of volcanic activity, where the extreme pressure and heat creates the gemstones. Another process knows as hydrothermal circula...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Agate Banded Fire Agates is a layered stone that is formed then water that is saturated with colloida silica and iron oxide enters a cavity in a rock and the mineral in the water starts do form new ro...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
American Lobsters Lobster hunting is becoming a favorite pastimes for many divers. These tasty crustaceans, also known as bugs to divers, are delicious. But in order to capture a lobster you must ...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Geodes Thunder eggs, or geodes, are geological rock formations which occur in sedimentary and certain volcanic rocks. They look like regular rocks from the outside, the exterior typically made up of...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Megalodon Tooth Have you ever seen someone with a really cool shark's tooth necklace and wondered how they got it? Chances are they didn't really wrestle that big shark and yank out the tooth as a t...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Fossil Fish If there is anything that truly unites us to the past, it must be fossils. They are a record of how life not only existed thousands and millions of years ago but there is a record of how...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Diamond Mine Locations Apply around 58,000 atmospheres of pressure to pure carbon and then heat to about 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit and you will have a diamond. For millions of years microscopic plant...
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by David Cowley - 2008-06-01
Have you ever seen a rock that seems to glow in the dark? Maybe only when you've been at a museum or science center, but in reality fluorescent minerals can be readily found in many places and make ...