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		<title>Deal Cabbers at the 2012 Tucson gemshow!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello rockhounds! If you&#8217;re going to be anywhere near Tucson, AZ. (Jan. 28th through Feb. 12th, 2012), you&#8217;ll definitely want to stop by the About Lapidary booth where my good friend, Terry Deal, will be demonstrating his new cabbing machines.  The show is in Tucson&#8217;s Electric Park, at 2500 E. Ajo Way.  If you can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2011/10/deal-cabbers-at-the-lewiston-gemshow/</link>
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		<title>Lapidary and safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who saws, sands, grinds or polishes rocks should be aware that the dust generated poses health hazards, yet I can&#8217;t begin to count how many times I have seen fellow lapidarists busy at their cabbing or faceting machines bare-faced. And thus unprotected. Grinding with water certainly helps, but that alone is not enough. Wet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2011/08/lapidary-and-safety/</link>
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		<title>Lucky find of ojitos imperial nodules!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This sampling old stock imperial jasper (below) was the highlight of our haul from Tucson 2011, for me. I haven&#8217;t seen such fabulous nodules available in years, and heard it was all but mined out long ago. The gunny sack full we purchased was part of an old horde from several decades back, and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2011/02/lucky-find-of-ojitos-imperial-nodules/</link>
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		<title>Hell&#8217;s Canyon petrified wood!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the story:  Back in the &#8217;50s, a lucky rockhound unearthed a cache of petrified wood in the Hell&#8217;s Canyon gorge.  Not long afterward, the Brownlee dam was constructed, flooding the entire area.  Meanwhile, the rockhound, not knowing what to do with all that pet wood, buried it near his house.  There it sat, for decades, until it was dug up by his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2010/12/hells-canyon-petrified-wood/</link>
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		<title>Royal Sahara Jasper®, the newest member of the porcelain jasper family!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife Rain and my cousin recently met with Janet and George Sechler, owners of Oasis Prospecting, in their Washington home.  Their visit was twofold:  Rain is creating a new Royal Sahara Jasper website for the Sechlers (who discovered RSJ), and was showing them the ins and outs of adding items to it, while my cousin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2008/06/royal-sahara-jasper%c2%ae-the-newest-member-of-the-porcelain-jasper-family/</link>
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		<title>SONORA SUNRISE, the new chrysocolla/cuprite blend!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, have you seen the new Sonora Sunrise?  Fresh from this year’s shows, this vivid chrysocolla / cuprite blend is the most eye catching material, ever!  It has striking blood red and greenish blue colors, and it cuts astonishing cabochons that are perfect for today’s fine designer jewelry.  Takes a surprisingly nice polish too, a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2008/05/sonora-sunrise-the-new-chrysocollacuprite-blend/</link>
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		<title>“The two wolves inside us all”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, someone sent me a link to an eBay auction. There, I saw that skyesgems was using, word-for-word, text copied from an old page of my website, which I had written to describe one of my Tahoma jasper cabs offered for sale. Wow, that was really upsetting to find… I mean, why didn’t she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2008/05/%e2%80%9cthe-two-wolves-inside-us-all%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Sign up to join my mailing list. It’s easy!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, my lovely and talented wife Rain has had to deal with some very frustrated customers, many of which have complained about not getting the stones they wanted.  I, too, often read comments that ‘Everything is always ‘SOLD‘!  So I’d like to take a moment to soothe some of that disappointment, while explaining our position.  First and foremost, and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2008/04/sign-up-to-join-my-mailing-list-it%e2%80%99s-easy/</link>
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		<title>Silver picking and Friendships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Montana dendritic moss agate (Yellowstone agate) is a great favorite around here, and both Rain and I love to cab it, carve it, and knap it into arrowheads and spearpoints.  We can never get enough of it.  So, toward that end, I often travel around Montana, stopping at all the rockshops.  And sometimes, I stumble onto less likely sources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2008/04/silver-picking-and-friendships/</link>
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		<title>A variety of great NEW cabbing materials!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow.  Last weekend’s gem show was awesome!!  It brought me a boatload of new goodies to work with, and that has had me oh so eager to pass the days away happily cabbing up a storm.  Might as well, since it’s been snowing here, as it is this very moment, every single day for the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsilverhawk.com/lapidary/2008/03/a-variety-of-great-new-cabbing-materials/</link>
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