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Lapidary
A beginners guide to lapidary
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 422950" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>In his book of memoirs, titled "In the rough", Bill Hagan - whose family were among the original miners on the Anakie gemfields - recounts a group of miners ending up with it. I'll have to read the book again but from memory they used explosives to blast a quartz outcrop (they were not chasing sapphires) and then because they had all pooled their money it was up to each man to grab as much for himself as he could. The result was that no one wanted to miss out so no one waited for the dust cloud from the blast to disperse, they all raced into the thick cloud to gather whatever it was they were after and inhaled great quantities of pulverised silica. Apparently, some of them were dead less than six months later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 422950, member: 2976"] In his book of memoirs, titled "In the rough", Bill Hagan - whose family were among the original miners on the Anakie gemfields - recounts a group of miners ending up with it. I'll have to read the book again but from memory they used explosives to blast a quartz outcrop (they were not chasing sapphires) and then because they had all pooled their money it was up to each man to grab as much for himself as he could. The result was that no one wanted to miss out so no one waited for the dust cloud from the blast to disperse, they all raced into the thick cloud to gather whatever it was they were after and inhaled great quantities of pulverised silica. Apparently, some of them were dead less than six months later. [/QUOTE]
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A beginners guide to lapidary
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