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That's me, working to extract a cluster of fluorite crystals coated
by calcite from the fissure wall of one mine (obtained permission) near
Socorro, New Mexico. It was very nice of the bats to keep me me company.
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Doing a demonstration of agate polishing methods for Mikenuak
Rock & Gem (Roscommon, MI) at Kirtland Warble Festival (May). I built
that machine by myself from old lapidary machine parts.
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I was born deaf at September 1976, and my interest in
rock collecting was inspired by Earth Sciences class in during my eighth
grade year (1990) at my Middle (Junior High) School. My first major
rock-hunting trips were to the quartz mines of Arkansas (thank you, my
supportive parents!), and the copper mines of Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan
(we still do that each summer).
Unlike many young people, I was able to maintain
the growth of my interest in minerals since that time and I may be the
only deaf person ever to have graduated from Michigan State University
with Bachelor's Degree of phyical geology (not enviromental type).
After having obtained a lot of agate and other lapidary
roughs, I decided to start a small business of selling agates and other
minerals.
Right now, I'm either in Roscommon, Michigan
(Summer & Fall), and near Tuscon, Arizona (Winter & Spring).
That's it for now and here's few pictures:
This is the picture of what is a fraction of my collection
displayed at Grand Traverse City Rock & Gem Show (each weekends of
Sept) of Michigan as an effort to help support the Grand Traverse City
Club. I have been doing such exhibits at T.C. show since Sept. 2002.
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This is the picture of my booth at Sept. 2005 Greenfield
Show (near Indianopolis, IN) filled with the cut and polished agates sitting
on dirt-filled gold pans (dirt actually obtained from the washes of Empire
Mtn., Arizona with some gold in them. Each pan contains the agates from
each location.
Of course, I'm good with drawing too as evident of
the picture of Energiea (cute girl with metallic angelic wings) designed
for my highly popular TRSE: Facets
of Silver Crystal (Japanese cartoon art) website.
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