Hi Carl and List Members, It seems inevitable that future fraud will take place if the sale of this olivine were ever to take hold but I feel the market for such gemstones is very thin so trust and provenance will be everything . Gemologists are not yet trained on extraterrestrial gemstones because there is virtually no market for them. The diamond industry has spent billions developing a market. Diamonds have attributes like hardness and refractive qualities that lend themselves nicely to jewelry making although they are far from being rare.
Try giving a woman space olivine in an engagement ring. The odds are you won't be getting married or be reduced to eating TV dinners the rest of your life. This is because excellent marketing over a long period of time has made diamonds king. Olivine doesn't stand a chance and it is ridiculous to try and position it in the price range of diamonds. Dissolving pallasites to get at the olivine seems like a bad idea to me but what do I know? I am certainly no expert on marketing jewelry. It would be difficult to say the least to market both meteorites and jewelry. It is like trying to be a Jack of all trades and an expert at none. I feel it would take too much effort and produce very little for the landowners which is my main issue. They have to be kept happy in order for future searches to take place. I do not want to be remembered as the generation that destroyed all of it. Best Regards, Adam ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: Adam <[email protected]>; Adam Hupe <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, February 21, 2011 7:30:25 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Trials and Tribulations in Dealing with Landowners Adam, "One of the main problems is with trust." Speaking of trust. Is there a way to certify this material from Earth peridot? Wait until the eBay *posers* get word of this new Space Gem. Kaching, (sp)? Carl -- Carl or Debbie Esparza Meteoritemax ---- Adam Hupe <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the main problems is with trust. This strewn field has been available >for > > over 100 years and for all practical purposes now may be closed. It only > takes > one or two angry landowners to shut down the entire area to meteorite > hunters. > News of fraud, lawsuits and unpaid promised large sums of money, real or > imagined spread like wildfire through these rural communities. > > The quicker this is resolved, the better. The hunting tradition in this area > dates back to the Kimberly's, Nininger and Haag. It would be a shame to see > it > > permanently off-limits now. > > > Unfortunately, I witnessed the same thing with with the avocation of treasure > hunting which still has not recovered after 25 years. Property owners used > to > grant permission freely to search but this is a rarity these days. > > Happy Hunting, > > Adam > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at >http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
