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RE: JULY - SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge 3 - by @simplymike
@janton How do you like the header update. I tried to add my website to the header, and it would not let me. Said the URL was invalid, but it works fine. >:(
smithlabs, I know nothing about any header updates but I'll go look now.
ok smithlabs I went and looked but I don't see anything different. did you change the background photo?
and I don't see a website..what's that about?
are you playing mind games with me because i didn't get much sleep last night so I'm gullible today!
No mind games, I added some description, just under my name.
It wouldn't let me add the website www.smithlabs.us because it said the url was not valid
>:(smithlabs! ok I understand. what kind of gemstones?
ALL of them! I have a weakness for gemstones, and a few thousand have followed me home, and I kept them. I have some Bixbite (red emerald) that is the rarest stone in the World. I even have a piece of volcanic glass from Mt St Helens that is faceted.
I collect rocks too, have since I figured out that rocks fit in my pockets as a kid. My first rock collection vehicle was a tricycle!
:Olol. you must've started collecting early.
a few thousand is an exaggeration right?
and how much is Bixbite worth, it's more valuable than diamonds?
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