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	Favorite precious stone?
Callatya Moderator The girl's got crabs! Posts: 9662 Kudos: 5261 Registered: 16-Sep-2001	I do like opals, very emotive stone. Probably like the milky opals better than the blacks. For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett
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black.cat Enthusiast Posts: 196 Kudos: 465 Registered: 18-Feb-2003	I have to go with Sapphire for precious stones, used to be ruby, but I have a sapphire that is so dark it is almost black in my engagement ring For semi-precious I'd say moonstone. Claire.
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Babelfish Administrator Small Fry with Ketchup Posts: 6833 Kudos: 8324 Votes: 1570 Registered: 17-Apr-2003	If you went to a natural history gem exhibit what would you spend the most time staring at? Errrr....whatever had good enough lighting that would let me photograph it ...then I'd wander off to an exhibit about photographers..smithsonian had a great one about WW2 photographers with a whole section on [link= Margaret Bourke-White]http://www.gallerym.com/artist.cfm?ID=17" style="COLOR: #EB4288[/link]...yeah yeah I've got a one track mind....honestly stones like that don't really hold my attention...having said that, I'm always picking up small rocks, just about all my coat and jacket pockets have a rock or two from here and there. [link=H2g2]http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/upgrade.html" style="COLOR: #EB4288[/link] 2005 Don't Leave Home Without it [/font]
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superlion Mega Fish Posts: 1246 Kudos: 673 Votes: 339 Registered: 27-Sep-2003	Didn't say you have to wear jewelry. If you went to a natural history gem exhibit what would you spend the most time staring at? As for semi-precious... don't know if you count it but I like obsidian. Rose Quartz is really nice too and I know that counts. ><>
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Babelfish Administrator Small Fry with Ketchup Posts: 6833 Kudos: 8324 Votes: 1570 Registered: 17-Apr-2003	I don't like jewlery, I'll take a nice D-slr instead ! So much more useful ^_^ [link=H2g2]http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/upgrade.html" style="COLOR: #EB4288[/link] 2005 Don't Leave Home Without it[/font]
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gartenzwerfe Big Fish Mrs. Racso To Be Posts: 375 Kudos: 628 Votes: 199 Registered: 20-Mar-2004	Well if we go with semi-precious, that'd be my birthstone, amethyst Still waiting for a diamond ><>Dani<><
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denver Mega Fish Mile High.... Posts: 1031 Kudos: 205 Votes: 110 Registered: 25-Jul-2000	Diamonds Emeralds Sapphires Lapis Lazuli Turquoise Black Opals White Opals As for precious metals : Platinum White Gold Silver Yellow Gold I really do not like yellow gold - I prefer the white metals better.
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Doedogg Banned Posts: 408 Kudos: 737 Votes: 445 Registered: 28-Jan-2004	Rubies are my favorite. Diamonds probibly my least. I don't wear jewelry much although I do wear a diamond pendant (a gift) every day and a diamond nose stud (only because the piercing studio didn't have any rubies that I liked.) Steph I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. ~ Mae West
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tiny_clanger Fish Guru Posts: 2563 Kudos: 571 Votes: 12 Registered: 17-Sep-2002	probably lapis lazuli and garnets. ------------------------------------------------- I like to think that whoever designed marine life was thinking of it as basically an entertainment medium. That would explain some of the things down there, some of the unearthly biological contraptions
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moondog Moderator The Hobnob-lin Posts: 2676 Kudos: 1038 Votes: 4366 Registered: 30-Sep-2002	you know, you can get garnets on most industrial strength sand paper if you really want some "That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman
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Oleta Ultimate Fish Guru You can\'t rollerskate in a buffalo herd Posts: 3397 Kudos: 2260 Votes: 186 Registered: 16-Aug-2001	Well, if we were to go semi-precious and precious my picks would be thus: Amethyst Diamonds Garnets Sapphires Jade
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Theresa_M Moderator Queen of Zoom Posts: 3649 Kudos: 4280 Votes: 790 Registered: 04-Jan-2004	Hmmm...I don't wear any precious stones other than my engagement ring. Really my favorite thing in jewelry is silver or white gold. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is water at the bottom of the ocean
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Toirtis Mega Fish Posts: 1260 Kudos: 529 Votes: 6 Registered: 24-Feb-2003	Alexandrite.
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blondie Big Fish Posts: 453 Kudos: 341 Votes: 5 Registered: 03-Aug-2001	Ruby, a great big dark red one. Please! I also like Amber but thats not a precious stone.
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superlion Mega Fish Posts: 1246 Kudos: 673 Votes: 339 Registered: 27-Sep-2003	Me and some friends were talking about precious stones and I was inspired to make this thread. So what is it? I think I'm going to go with fire opal. Gorgeous black stone. With little sparks of color. Wow. ><>
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Oleta Ultimate Fish Guru You can\'t rollerskate in a buffalo herd Posts: 3397 Kudos: 2260 Votes: 186 Registered: 16-Aug-2001	Moondog, I can't think of anything clever to say this late into my shift so you'll just have to settle for this:
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smantzer Big Fish Posts: 378 Kudos: 347 Votes: 10 Registered: 02-Nov-2004	jade and amethyst Both are pretty, and amethyst's supposed to aid in sleep and good dreams, which is something I'm in desperate need of
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wish-ga Mega Fish Dial 1800-Positive-Posts Posts: 1198 Kudos: 640 Registered: 07-Aug-2001	I go through phases... at the moment very attracted to seed pearls like you see in antique jewellery. I also have a diamond and green sapphire ring I am very fond of. I like unusual stones...also like pink sapphires. Sapphires come in lots of different colours not just blue. I have a chequerboard amethyst that I get lots of comments on. Because of the cut it is very sparkly and people don't know what kind of stone it is but it is just the old garden variety amethyst jazzed up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ My fish blow kisses at me all day long ~~~
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:32
tribblehappy Enthusiast Posts: 221 Kudos: 283 Votes: 41 Registered: 23-Jun-2003	Sapphires. And... I know it's not a precious stone... But i've always loved hematite... It's so gorgeous!!! I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:32
houston Fish Guru You want what when? Posts: 2623 Kudos: 2462 Votes: 337 Registered: 29-Mar-2003	I have to say OPALS!!! I love a good firey opal...there is nothing like it...I have an opal ring that my nanny gave me...it is wonderful, but I don't dare wear it because it is so delicate...Heidi:%) "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle
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