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

Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 19, 2018 8:42AM in U.S. Coin Forum

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ddkAAOSwp5RZzjCf/s-l640.jpg

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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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a Fake send it back.



    Hoard the keys.
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Actually, I considered that. I'm very suspicious of SOME of the green or blue "volcanic glass" being sold on Ebay.

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As an artist, I need to apologize for the first photo as it is not artistically pleasing ...

    I Fixed it with Bonsai tools .......

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Type2 said:
    It's a Fake send it back.

    Or, if you are in Hawaii, the volcano might come and get it. :o

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillDugan1959 said:
    I'm kinda a believer in the 'Curse of Pele".

    The soccer player? He's almost 80 years old. I think with him at that age I can probably out run him. :p

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 19, 2018 11:30AM

    @SkyMan said:
    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...

    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?

  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:

    @SkyMan said:
    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...

    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.

    Toned Franklins

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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SkyMan said:

    @Insider2 said:

    @SkyMan said:
    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...

    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.

    Very cool better yet send me a piece how much$$$ ....



    Hoard the keys.
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Type2 said:

    @SkyMan said:

    @Insider2 said:

    @SkyMan said:
    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...

    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.

    Very cool better yet send me a piece how much$$$ ....

    Go to Ebay. Reasonable prices. That's where I got mine.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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 !!! :(

    Timbuk3
  • BruceSBruceS Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think you guys watch too many Brady Bunch reruns,


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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭





    Hoard the keys.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ErrorsOnCoins.....nice root over rock. Never tried one of those.



  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    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.

  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll buy a single bonsai tree

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ACop said:
    I'll buy a single bonsai tree

    99% of people who buy a single bonsai tree will kill it within a year.

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A week. :D

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So hard to maintain as my whole yard looks like this ......

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Arizona??

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 20, 2018 11:13AM

    California, where else would I live?

    Perfect weather for most Bonsai.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,706 ✭✭✭✭✭

    San Diego is a beautiful city. :love:

    My YouTube Channel

  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:

    @ACop said:
    I'll buy a single bonsai tree

    99% of people who buy a single bonsai tree will kill it within a year.

    Fine, I'll take 2

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 20, 2018 3:16PM

    @ACop said:

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:

    @ACop said:
    I'll buy a single bonsai tree

    99% of people who buy a single bonsai tree will kill it within a year.

    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.

  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:

    @ACop said:
    I'll buy a single bonsai tree

    99% of people who buy a single bonsai tree will kill it within a year.

    Sadly, I'm in that group. We even named it. We doted over it, perhaps to its detriment.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From Olivine to Bonsai.... Now there is an amazing transition in a thread on a coin forum. :D:D Cheers, RickO

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    From Olivine to Bonsai.... Now there is an amazing transition in a thread on a coin forum. :D:D Cheers, RickO

    We have done worse ;)

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