FMF - Friends of Minerals Forum, discussion and message board

[Antonio Alcaide]

[katiafish]

Thank you for your kind words, it's good to be here.
As for my previous post, it's 4" kyanite sphere, not 4', imagine that hehe!

[John S. White]

As long as we are on this topic, something new in the metaphysical world showed up in Denver. One dealer had this leather girdle which holds quartz crystals and fits over a wine bottle. I was told that it absolutely makes the wine taste better. He said that in blind taskings, the wine with the quartz crystal girdle was always selected as the better tasting. He invited me to try it one evening but I had other plans.

[Jason]

I would think a bottle of "Cristal" would be a more appropriate choice for the wine! :):):):)

By the way I had Jordi change my name from amethystguy to my real name. FMF is full of many of my peers and folks I highly respect so unlike many other forum I frequent I wanted to come at from a more mature perspective since I consider this a more mature and "upper echelon" type forum.

[Gail]

Gee, what's wrong with hippies??? I mean, like dude! I used to be one!

[Jean Sendero]

John,
Does the quartz needs to be from the same country than the wine to be effective? or it does not matter. What about crystal size?
One would not want to compromise a good Ozzie, Chilean, Californian or French wine with Chinese or Bulgarian quartz. These last two countries would need 1 m longer quartz to improve on quality.
Would it work with single malts? Maybe I could try on a cheap blend and see if it rises to a single malt.
Sorry, I am always a skeptic when it comes to artificially improve wines.
Cheers
Jean

[mmauthner]

[ellencmoe]

I took specimens I had found at the Oceanview Mine, Pala, CA to my rock club meeting for show and tell. I had found a rather nice quartz crystal in the tailings - 4-1/2 inches long and slightly over an inch across with a perfect top termination. The top inch or so is perfectly transparent. What I thought was an internal fracture just below this turns out to be some sort of inclusion. It looks like a circular flake of silver-colored mica and is on a plane at 45 degrees to the crystal. It reflects rainbow colors if held to the light just right.

Anyway, after the meeting, one member came and told me it was a rare Lemurian Seed Crystal - especially since two of the long faces were frosted and the others have horizontal striations.

Aa online search about Lemurian quartz crystals revealed an "interesting" story that these crystals were left in snad in Brazil by an advanced, alien culture on earth around the time of Atlantis. How this seed crystal got to California from Brazil, I'm not sure - although the owner of this fee-for-dig mine does have quartz from Brazil for sale in his shop.

I am interested in finding out what the inclusion might be. It looks like a flat circle of thin silver foil with a diameter of about 1/2 inch. It has very slight wrinkles which radiate out from the center to the circumference (somewhat like an oriental fan) with a small tear along one radius. Unfortunately, my kids have borrowed my digital camera and misplaced it, so I can't post a picture.

[Jordi Fabre]

[John S. White]

[Jason]

Not even a snicker or chuckle for my "Cristal" jab? ;):):D Sigh..I guess we don't have to many rappers or pro basketball players on here. :D :D:D

[vic rzonca]

Let's see now, Lemurian seed crystal-perhaps with the right fertilizer we could indeed grow a Lemurian. It would seem, with all the lab work done by Russian tech's, it might already have happened. I agree with Mark, spirituality and science are both pursuits of the same thing, the unknown. Back to Lamurians, John, any chance we could get funding for the Argi-Lamurian project? (It's nice to think there is room in this forum for a little levity)

[vic rzonca]

Snicker,snicker,Yuc,Yuc. I'm down wit it!

[Jean Sendero]

John,

I will have to find one of those decanter.
Cheers
Jean

[Ed Huskinson]

Blasted Boji balls, Batman!!!!

I go away for a weekend and the entire Underground Railroad weighs in on all things metaphysical. I am intrigued by John's crystal girdle though. think of the possibilities!!! Well,, applications, so to speak.

Moving right along.....

Ed