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		<title>January Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just sent off our monthly newsletter (new year edition) filled with upcoming products and good deals. Amethyst, Sonora Sunset and soon to come more Rhodonite polished cabochons. Click here to view the newsletter! ]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we enter into a new year for 2010 we have some exciting things coming up! We&#8217;ve been hard at work cutting, tumbling, polishing and of course shaping gemstones. Expect to see some rough rock too along with polished necklaces, rock clocks, belt buckles and more. Of course you can still get our translucent obsidian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cacoxenite in Amethyst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an incredibly beautiful old material from Brazil that is Cacoxenite in Amethyst. The Cacoxenite (Hydrated Iron Aluminum Phosphate Oxide Hydroxide) is a needle like golden fiber inside the Amethyst which helps to bring a metaphysical &#8220;spiritual awakening&#8221;, promoting new ideas and understanding. It is also said to aid us in seeing the positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Chrysocolla Cabs just added!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out some of our new beautiful Chrysocolla Cabochons we have added to our site! We have some with Gem Silica from Bisbee and Globe Arizona! There are some beautiful Malachite inclusions in some of them!   Click on any of the items below to view more in our store! 

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		<title>Chrysocolla : Blue-Green Mineral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The name Chrysocolla was first used by Theophrastus in 315 B.C. and comes from the Greek chrysos, meaning &#8220;gold,&#8221; and kolla, meaning &#8220;glue,&#8221; in allusion to the name of the material used to solder gold. Found in the oxidation zone of copper deposits, often encrusting or replacing earlier secondary minerals. It is typically found as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink Plume Agate &#8211; New Find!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This pink plume agate material is said to be out of Madagascar with agate formations and beautiful druzy crystal pockets. First said to be on the market at the Tucson, AZ Gem and Mineral show in 2008 for this rare material. 
These pink plume cabochons are looking really nice when polished as the pink colors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priday Plume</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Priday Plume Thunder Egg Agate
&#8220;Priday&#8221; or &#8220;Plume Agate&#8221; is a very rare agate found many years ago on the Priday ranch outside Madras Oregon. Long gone are the digging opportunity&#8217;s for this agate found in thunder eggs. You will find moss with rich browns patterns and in some cases plume patterns which become more valuable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petrified wood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia says, &#8220;Petrified wood (from the Greek root &#8220;petro&#8221; meaning &#8220;rock&#8221; or &#8220;stone&#8221;, literally &#8220;wood turned into stone&#8221;) is a type of fossil: it consists of fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the original structure of the wood. The petrifaction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thunder Egg Agate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is a Thunder Egg?
Wikipedia says, &#34;A thunderegg (or thunder egg) is a nodule-like geological structure, similar to a geode, that is formed within a rhyolitic lava flow.&#34;
Appearance &#38; Composition
Thundereggs are rough spheres, most about the size of a baseball &#8211; though they can range from less than an inch to over a meter across. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinosaur Bone Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agatized Dinosaur Bone or &#34;dino bone&#34; is the result of fossilized bone from dinosaurs in which the cellular structure has been replaced with quartz, leaving the bone structure intact. The resulting stone is a 7 on the Mohs scale.
Many excellent specimens of dinosaur bone are found in and around the American southwest. Dinosaur bone ranges [...]]]></description>
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