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Now that I got mine...Olivine in Basalt.

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Thanks to @Paradisefound and her post about Hawaii. I have a degree in Geology and knew Olivine was associated with volcanic activity. I heard about the green sands in Hawaii for years. Thanks to the Internet, I saw them and bought some really cool specimens for my collection.
PS I'm going to display one next to a Silver coin.
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I'm kinda a believer in the 'Curse of Pele".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele's_Curse
Luck is a Lady, and she's fickle, very very fickle.
Oh no! THANKS for the warning.
Lucky for me, my chunks came from a Chinese volcano!
It's a Fake send it back.
Hoard the keys.
Actually, I considered that. I'm very suspicious of SOME of the green or blue "volcanic glass" being sold on Ebay.
wow, as I have brought back volcanic rock from the Islands.
I am a very lucky person. There are two types of luck and I have had huge doses of both types.
Hopefully using the volcanic rock as a base to attach a bonsai plant helped to change the luck to good .....
A close family member had a very solid business, for twenty years. His customers would send him fancy small rocks from some of the best vacation spots in the world. He would display the rocks in his office.
Sure enough, somebody sent him some Hawaii stones.
Business lasted ten more years, but it declined every single year. He just closed up shop, probably got half the price of what the business would have cashed out for five years earlier.
I don't care for Pele, I'm not messing with that fellow.
As an artist, I need to apologize for the first photo as it is not artistically pleasing ...
I Fixed it with Bonsai tools .......
Or, if you are in Hawaii, the volcano might come and get it.
The soccer player? He's almost 80 years old. I think with him at that age I can probably out run him.
Here's another sort of olivine. It comes from a little further away than Hawaii, or China for that matter, and it is associated with temperatures much hotter than basalt's melting point. Specifically it got here via a meteorite...
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Nice "slice" Please finish your post. Type, location of the fall... I'll bet most here never knew these existed!
I collect end pieces. They show the outside surface and the polished interior.
PS Is this where "Skyman" (astronomer) came from?
Thank you. It's a Brahin Pallasite. It was found circa 1820 in what is now Belarus (between Poland and Russia).
Skyman comes from me being a space junkie, space memorabilia collector and I have a Ph.D. specializing in satellite imagery.
U.S. Type Set
Very cool better yet send me a piece how much$$$ ....
Hoard the keys.
Go to Ebay. Reasonable prices. That's where I got mine.
I was born and raised in Hawaii. Madam Pele's curse is believed by most locals. There have been too many unfortunate incidences for it to be a coincidence !!!
I think you guys watch too many Brady Bunch reruns,
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Hoard the keys.
Olivine, and the green glass crystals often found from volcanic activity, is really attractive. Being a lifelong rockhound, I find many different pieces of nature's artwork attractive. I have always dreamed of doing an emerald search in South America... Cheers, RickO
ErrorsOnCoins.....nice root over rock. Never tried one of those.
Topstuff, those are insanely nice. Really like the juniper.
I have around 40 almost all in training boxes. I wish I had the time to spend on them but have so many others joys to pursue that I hardly have time for them. I am working to develop the root, trunk, and basic branch structure. I do not have time to get into the finer branch structures off the main branches. Most of my trees are 30-40 plus years old.
Me neither....now.
I've even stopped buying any raffle tickets at the bonsai club. I do not WANT....nor can I handle.... MORE trees.
When my wife died, I sold a bunch as I just could not devote the time required to train and maintain.
The above are from my very FEW that I pay any attention to. It's a labor intensive hobby for sure.
I'll buy a single bonsai tree
99% of people who buy a single bonsai tree will kill it within a year.
A week.
So hard to maintain as my whole yard looks like this ......
Arizona??
California, where else would I live?
Perfect weather for most Bonsai.
San Diego is a beautiful city.
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Fine, I'll take 2
Then you just might buy the book and read about them and realize just how precious they are and become a serious collector.
Developing a bonsai on your own from older growth nursey stock or yard plants dug up is very rewarding.
Sadly, I'm in that group. We even named it. We doted over it, perhaps to its detriment.
From Olivine to Bonsai.... Now there is an amazing transition in a thread on a coin forum.
Cheers, RickO
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