[Jewelry making - Article 00423] - Re: [Orchid] Good quality stones at a good price?

[Deewo]

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    I love a good mineral show; but high gas prices and escalating booth
    fees have cut into the number of quality shows we used to get.
    Vendors who would come twice a year have cut down to one show a year,
    or---if they come from far away, not at all. Some shows have nothing
    but beads and high end jewelry or novelties. 

    Always on the lookout for interesting stuff with jewelry potential,
    I ran into a couple of unfamiliar specimens recently: Ethiopian Opal?
    Like a jelly opal the color of fire agate with shifting inner fire of
    red,green, orange and yellow and a flash of blue. The matrix is
    pinkish and clay-like. The other stone was sold by a Russian vendor,
    and (I hope my spelling is accurate) he called it stakhanovite. It's
    an opaque off-white cab, .laced with coppery-bronze splinters Two of
    its components are sodium and titanium (that's all I can remember
    from the list he read off to me). It appears to be softer than
    agate, but the 'splinters' catch the light beautifully. 

    Is anyone familiar with either of these? If you have worked with
    either one, please let me know. 

Dee
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