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| P: 2/26/2005 9:43:28 AM | |
MINE!! Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,287 Last Post: 1/22/2007 Member Since: 2/25/2005 |
I heard that there was some sort of stone made from the ashes of Mt.Saint Helen. Is this true? Or am I going nuts?
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| Posted: 2/26/2005 9:43:28 AM | |
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| P: 2/26/2005 9:58:46 AM | |
valeria101 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 14,048 Last Post: 4/30/2006 Member Since: 8/29/2003 |
Google "Helenite"... you should end up with allot of hits pointing to green and red faceted stones of really nice color and really low price. It's probably glass made one way or another; sometimes described as "obsidian" - which is glass by structure anyway. Here's one link  Ana "The greatest experts are only as good as the sum total of what they have seen." [Souren Melikian] |
| Posted: 2/26/2005 9:58:46 AM | |
| P: 2/26/2005 11:05:04 AM | |
cflutist Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,370 Last Post: 7/20/2006 Member Since: 7/12/2004 |
Idaho Opal and Gem was selling Mt. St. Helen's jewelry in the early 1990s, but the stones were blue-green in color.
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| Posted: 2/26/2005 11:05:04 AM | |
| P: 2/26/2005 12:24:14 PM | |
Michael_E Cut Rock Total Posts: 324 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 11/19/2003 |
Although this stuff is pretty, it is nothing more than colored glass that MAY have a sprinkling of ash from Mt. St. Helens mixed into it...just to give it the name, make a good story and sell, sell, sell. This stuff is mostly sold at gem and mineral shows and is very cheap and not at all durable. There was even a woman who had a shop about 25 miles from me , in a quaint little tourist town, that was selling this stuff as "Mt. St. Helens Emeraldite" or some such bull. She'd stick it a $300 mounting, charge $800 for it and make a killing. If you want a really pretty green synthetic I would suggest either synthetic emerald or in a paler color synthetic sapphire. If you you must have "Helenite" I would suggest setting it in a pendant, as this material is softer and more brittle than opal. |
| Posted: 2/26/2005 12:24:14 PM | |
| P: 2/27/2005 5:07:33 PM | |
tanuki Cut Rock Total Posts: 341 Last Post: 12/27/2008 Member Since: 1/16/2005 |
I had a little pendant made of Mt. St Helen's Emeraldite that I bought back in the early 80's. It was just glass and wasn't that expensive at the time (there was a lot of it around then - the mountain had just blown up about a year earlier. Maybe it's getting harder to find ash from the eruption 25 years later). We were still washing the stuff off our cars back then. Too bad I lost it if they are getting that much for them nowadays.
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| Posted: 2/27/2005 5:07:33 PM | |
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