The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. (VGMS)

Lighter Side 1998 Archive.

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1. FEBRUARY - THINK LEAD'S HEAVY,
2. JUNE - "ROCK COLLECTORS PRAYER".

February.

THINK LEAD'S HEAVY
     at 710 pounds per cubic foot? Try palladium at 717, thallium at 740, rethenium at 767, rodium at 776, hafnium at 830, mercury at 849, tantalium at 1035, uranium at 1166, tungston at 1174, gold at 1204, iridium at 1298, platinum at 1333, and osmium at a whopping 1404.

          Trilobite,
          via Rock Rustler's News,
          via AFMS Newsletter, Feb. 1998.

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June.

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"ROCK COLLECTORS PRAYER."

Please give me the opportunity to collect a rock so big, so colorful and so rare that when speaking of it forever afterward, I will never have to exagerate or swerve from the truth.

Amen.
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