Fw: re: pulsite

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What really brought this thought on, was a story I read the other day at

http://www.bovagems.com/scripts/Eclectic/getarticle.cfm?article_id=9802UNLUCK & is\

sue_id=19980201 & guest=Welcome ,showing that everyone can meke mistakes about

this (radioactivity).

 

The story starts out like this: A gemmologist decides to test just HOW

radioactive one of his gems is. After testing he takes the Geiger counter for a

roundtrip around the house... and gets a really big surprise:

I quote:

 

" Having familiarized myself with its operation, I began testing all sorts of

household objects: red tiles with a lead glaze, granites from Norway, cheese

from Holland that was said to have been irradiated, and much more, including all

my gemstones and in particular the ekanites that I was storing in lead boxes.

What hit me like a ton of bricks though was when I set the probe down on my

desktop and the counter began to sound off like crazy. The cause - a coffee bean

sized black stone in my desk drawer.

 

Instantly my thoughts carried me back to the street market in Ratnapurna, Sri

Lanka. Dealers tugging at my sleeves urge me to buy this, that, and the other

thing. Most of it holds no interest for me. One of the dealers though holds a

black bean-size crystal in his hand. " Cat's eye rutile, " he says. I doubt this,

somehow, but since I myself am not sure of what it might be, I enquire about the

price and we agree that he will have three stones cut for me from the unknown

rough.

 

I then carry these three gems and a small piece of remaining rough in my

backpack through India, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong, all the way back to

Germany. There, I give a colleague a sample and ask him for his assistance in

determining the identity of this unusually heavy stone. It's one of these which

has been lying in my desk drawer for the past six months, and suddenly, its

identity dawns on me: Uraninite.

 

It sounds like a harmless diminuitive, but if those unsuspecting cutters in Sri

Lanka who cut the three stones inhaled even a grain of it into their lungs,

their wives may well be widows now and their children orphans. Uraninite is far

more radioactive than ekanite.

 

I don't even dare think of what might happen to someone who were to wear such a

shiny black metallic stone as a ring or a pendant. It really would be a stone of

evil luck! " (Author: Gerhard Loock)

 

 

Love

Ametrin1

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tikifaythe1

Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:15 AM

[CrystalHW] re: pulsite

 

 

Soria,

 

Now that was something I had not thought of so I had it checked and nope, not

radio active at all. (although as ornery as I am I am not sure even that

would get me - LOL)

 

Seriously though, thank you for making me aware of the possibility.

 

Still at a loss. And I have tried to find the people I got it from, they do

the local shows but have not been able to find them.

Odder and odder LOL.

 

Infinite Blessings

TikiFaythe