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Re: [Orchid] Bag o' emeralds
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MillsGem Saturday, November 12, 2005
   
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Dear Miachelle (sp.?)

    You don't explain how you acquired the emeralds, nor do you describe
    them.I vaguely recall having seen come-ons which claimed to be able
    to send you a large quantity of emeralds for a pittance. If this is
    the kind of thing that you are talking about, you might just as well
    chalk it up to experience. The old something for nothing gimmick is
    totally worn out ! Good natural emeralds are exceedingly rare and
    valuable, whereas greenish beryl, the mineral that is emerald when it
    is a rich green in color, is more rare than diamonds ! 

    The biggest pitfall in gemstones is to ASSUME that when a stone is
    technically verifiable as being a given gemstone, and, therefore
    valuable, is an open invitation to fraud ! Gemstones come in wide
    variations of value and quality. Many of the diamonds that are used
    in jewelry today are not at all valuable. They are the stones that
    would have been used for abrasive purposes when diamond mining
    relegated bottom quality stones to industrial applications. The
    people who sell bags full of "gemstones" for a pittance are sucker
    mongers....they are scum who parasitize the innocent ! 

Ron  Mills, Mills Gem Co., Los Osos, Ca.



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