[Jewelry making - Article 00101] - Re: [Orchid] Yellow Turquoise

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    OK....I give Sun Country Gems credit for  giving full disclosure
    that their 'new jade', 'yellow turquoise', and 'lemon agate' is
    actually serpentine....and thank them  for that.  But why, oh why
    would anyone call serpentine by these names?  This is lunacy.  How
    many people out there are selling these things as something they are
    not and the gullible public is buying thinking they are getting
    something else???  I mean... come on now folks, these are not even
    expensive items and at best only a buck or two can be made on each
    item...not like they might get from falsefying a diffused sapphire. 
    In the end, the people who sell these things as something else will
    be the downfall of the gem industry!!!  There are already enough
    confusing names of jaspers, agates etc out there.  Now they (whoever
    'they' may be) are blatently hawking junk and putting a fancy name
    on it for why? To make that almighty buck?  Start thinking people! 
    As the public becomes aware of the rouse they will never again
    believe anything we (the community) say.  The yellow serpentine is
    quite lovely.  Call it what it is instead of trying to make a silk
    purse out of a sow's ear! 

    Now I've ranted.  Thanks for listening and cheers from Don at The
    Charles Belle Studio in SOFL where simple elegance IS fine jewelry? 

dcdietz AT comcast.net

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