We just completed installing Google’s language conversion to our popular web site. Now folks can surf our web site in their native tongue. The languages are: Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese, German, Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese, and French. This is going to make the Great South web site more accessible to folks that read and write these languages. This should also increase out international orders.
Great South Gems & Minerals, Inc.
We just got a shipment of rough gemstones, all about 1-1/2″ to 2″. A good mix for 12 different stones. Tigereye, red jasper, picture jasper, rose quartz, amazonite, amethyst, apatite, desert jasper, Girisol opal, green opal, labradorite, petrified wood, septarian, and yellow jasper. This material is great for rock tumbling and for lapidary work. Will be a popular item as Christmas gifts. Great South Gems & Minerals, Inc.
We’ve just ran an ad in “Rock & Gem Magazine” for a rock tumbling kit that includes Lortone Rock Tumbler, all four stages of tumbling and polishing grit, and two pounds of semi-precious gemstones. This will be one of our Christmas Sale items. Kids of all ages are going to love this item. Great South Gems & Minerals, Inc.
Rock collecting sites and articles on the subject of rock collecting now available to rockhounds, free. Great South Gems & Minerals has decided to share 32 or Ray’s articles on rock collecting sites and information for rock collectors on their web site… FREE. These articles will also appear in Ray’s new book: "Rock Collecting Trails and Tales".
Now you can access all of these articles at: http://www.greatsouth.net/rambles.html
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NEW: killer specimens of CAVE ARAGONITE just in. Beautiful snow-white specimens. Looks like small trees covered with snow. Really nice material. From Mexico. White sparkling crystallized aragonite specimens that formed at the roof of a cave or cavity like a stalactite. Cave aragonite is a carbonate mineral, the stable form of calcium carbonate. Aragonite is a mineral normally found in pearls and in some animal shells.
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TAKE A CHILD ROCK COLLECTING: Last weekend, my grandson, Spencer, who is seven years old, had a sleep over here with MeeMa and me. He and I got up early Sunday morning, had our cereal, and then drove over to a small town near where we live, to a place where I knew we could collect some pink feldspar. For nearly two hours we walked up and down a rail-road track bed, picking up pink feldspar that was mixed in with the granite gravel. Spencer is a very bright boy that loves going out doing something like this, especially with him PawPaw. We picked up a five-gallon bucket full of the pink feldspar. We then put pennies on the train track and let a freight train run over them to flatten them out. My grandson thought this was way cool.
Spencer also walked up one side of the train road bed for a way and back down the other side picking up rail road spikes that were laying in the gravel where they had come loose. Spencer said, “Wow. Wait ’til Dad sees what I found!”
After we left the train track area, we found a McD’s and had a sausage and biscuit and a cold drink. When we got back to the house, Spencer said “PawPaw this is the coolest thing I’ve ever done! You’re the best PawPaw in the world!” And, I thought “Yes, this is so cool”, being able to share this with my grandson. I know that in years to come my grandson will remember the day when he and his grandpaw went and picked up rocks on the train track, flattened out pennies with the train running over them, and, his picking up rail road spikes. I know it will be a fond memory!
The moral is: Take time to spend with the kids. Take a child out rock collecting. They’ll remember it, and you, down the road.
Ray Hill, Great South Gems & Minerals, Inc., Ellenwood, GA
BLUE BARITE shipment just in. A fellow rockhound in Oklahoma has found a location of some good looking blue barite crystals that he collects. We just received a couple of flats of this material. Nice color and crystal formations.
See photos of these beauties at: M202_blue_barite_crystals.html
Great South Gems & Minerals, Inc.,
Ellenwood, GA
888-933-4367
“I spent two days fossil collecting in Alabama last week. Found lots and lots of marine animal fossils: five different species of brachiopods, blastoids, three species of bryozoan fossils, three different species of crinoid heads, crinoid stems, cephalopods and gastropods. All of the fossils are from the Mississippian age. Bangor Formation.
One of our customers invited me over to spend a couple of days with him and his wife and spend two days out fossil collecting with him. I had a most enjoyable time and brought back many excellent fossil specimens to be added to my personal collection. Thanks Larry and Mary. I really appreciate you guys hospitality. This trip was a blessing.
I had a great time yesterday on a rock collecting trip down to middle Georgia. A couple of rock collecting buddies and I went to just below Buena Vista, Georgia and collected Goethite, Limonite, some fossil root cast, and some Goethite pieces with seashell imprints. The fellowship, the tail gate lunch, and the weather made for a perfect day, and, we collected some very fine rock and mineral specimens.
Ray Hill
Great South Gems & Minerals, Inc.
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