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RE: JULY - SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge 3 - by @simplymike
I was always a rock hound!
No, not an exaggeration, probably 5K stones.
Bixbite is VERY expensive (way more than diamond), because it is so rare. It is usually is small too, because the only mine is in Lava, and they chip them out. :)
smithlabs where is Lava?
so your Bixbite is worth thousands?
The only mine is in Utah I think. It is an old lava flow.
A stone is worth what you can get for it. I tried to buy Bixbite for two years, placing a $35 bid on every piece (some smaller than 1mm dia) I saw, got nothing. Then I placed my $35 bid on a set of 12 stones, with 2 of them over 2mm (huge for Bixbite); and the East coast had a storm that crashed the power grid, and I won them!
It is so rare, that there is no listing for them for wholesale prices, but between $1000 and $2000 is not unreasonable. I want to make a set of ear rings with the two big ones, because it would likely be the only set in the World.
:) :D