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| This is the sum of my booty from this past weekend's 23rd Annual Rockhound Roundup Gem, Mineral, Fossil, & Jewelry Show in Paso Robles, CA, for which I am chairman. Being I'm a starving student I'm on a frugal budget I splurged $53 to purchase these three items clockwise from top left: agatized turritella from Southern Morocco near the Mali border; Sahara blue glass of uncertain origin; lower Triassic petrified wood (chalcocite with malachite) from Nacimiento Mine, Cuba, New Mexico. As you can see I am drawn to minerological oddities. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved). |
Ironically, I was reading about Agate Turritella last week and how it's a misnomer for the actual agatized snail, Elimia tenera. By the time a true accounting could be made, the name had become widespread so the wrong name stuck. That's your geo info of the day. LOL Congrats on obtaining some fine specimens!
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