?Hydrofluoric acid can do the job.
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From: "Yinan Wang" <[email protected]>
To: "Michael Gilmer" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; "tracy latimer"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New type of fake moldavite coming soon?
I'm actually curious as to how they're being made. Can casting glass
be that detailed? Are they etched by hand? Or is there some sort of
air ablation system being used as the glass cools?
Or are they using giant rail guns to fire projectiles into sand to
artificially create moldavites :) ... jk.
- Yinan
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Michael Gilmer <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Gang,
Yeah, this is not good news and let us hope that the ripple effects do
not propagate widely into the collecting community. Hopefully going
on the record here (and elsewhere) with the truth will at least
mitigate the effects somewhat. I see that "Jolly Rancher"
"apple-green" moldavite and I run the other way.
Leon is indeed getting larger and let's hope the forgers don't make a
pterodactyl or a brooch. ;)
Best regards,
MikeG
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On 8/1/11, tracy latimer <[email protected]> wrote:
I've seen a lot of bad fakes on eBay. 98% of the time, the giveaway is
the
color -- the fakes are usually that horrible Jolly Rancher apple-green.
Often the striations are nonexistent or poorly formed as well. Maybe 10%
of
the sellers have what appears to be authentic Moldavite material. The
others are selling fakes; I suspect a lot of the woo-ish sellers are
merely
reselling the fakes that were palmed off on them without verification.
The fakes are getting better, and "Leon's getting LARRRRGER!!!"
Best!
Tracy Latimer
From: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:15:01 -0500
To: [email protected]
Subject: [meteorite-list] New type of fake moldavite coming soon?
My buddy Justin at The-Vug just put out a new article on
Fakeminerals.com about a new type of fake moldavite that has been
recently spotted in China:
http://www.fakeminerals.com/?p=146
I'm not sure if this is the material people are already familiar with,
or if it is indeed a new type, but it's impressive looking.
- Yinan
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