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True North Gems [Rubies in Greenland]
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| 9/3/2014
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Posted on 09/10/2014 12:12:41 PM PDT by JimSEA
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This caught my eye as I hadn't been aware of precious gem deposits in Greenland.
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:12:41 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
No telling what may be buried under the icecap there.
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:14:58 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
To: JimSEA
Why wouldn't it be, considering that they have elves?
/johnny
To: JimSEA
Ruby Mining is going to Melt the Ice Sheets.....
Expect the greenie weenies to start whining in 3.2.1...
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:17:24 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(No, My Initials are not A.B.)
To: JimSEA
Check out “Ice Cold Gold” on the Animal Planet channel - American miners hunting for rubies in Greenland. It was pretty good, two seasons have aired so far.
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:19:46 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: JimSEA
The formation of rubies and sapphires is an unlikely event.
This Discovery article from 2003 gives a description of the formation of corundum deposits in marble (metamorphic limestone). Just before this article was written, I was taken to a marble deposit near Phrae, Thailand. I was told that, at one time rubies had been found there. As the article states, these deposits were likely a result of the collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate. The article goes into more detail.
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:22:31 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
TLC or Discovery did a series about some guys looking for rubies there. They found them basically just lying around and embedded in rocks on the surface. I wonder if these are the same guys or did somebody claim jump them. I think it was Iceland. Maybe it was Greenland. Anyway, there were a whole bunch of rubies there.
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:23:32 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
To: rktman
DOH! It is Greenland. Read! LOL!
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:24:17 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
To: The Sons of Liberty
Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38F-1-LO Lightning World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, that was restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the ice of the remote Greenland Ice Sheet for over 50 years.
They brought her up in pieces
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:29:14 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: dainbramaged; The Sons of Liberty; JRandomFreeper; GraceG; rktman
In post #6, I’ve linked an article on deposit formation. It sure is an unlikely process.
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:29:34 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: knarf
Here she is today ...
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:32:20 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: JimSEA
It sure is an unlikely process.So are elves, but there was an article about elves in Iceland not long ago...
Using climate change logic, therefore, elves did it.
/johnny
To: knarf
Me likey. Saw a show on TV about it. What an effort to bring her back from the dead. Awesome.
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:32:49 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
To: knarf
I remember that. The ice was well on the way to crushing that AC like a cheap beer can.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper; rktman
They invented a steam ‘bullet’ 4 ft across and sunk it down to where she lay ... digging out a cavern arouind her and bringing her back ... L’chiam !
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posted on
09/10/2014 12:36:12 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: JimSEA
“Basically, ruby is a form of aluminium oxide (Al2O3), or corundum, which at nine on the Mohs scale sits just one place lower than the hardest element diamond.”
Sloppy journalism. Diamond is not an element; it is formed from carbon. Likewise aluminum oxide is not an element.
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:18:18 PM PDT
by
Notforprophet
(Don't Tread On Me)
To: Notforprophet
Sloppy journalism. Diamond is not an element; it is formed from carbon. Likewise aluminum oxide is not an element. Pure diamond is 100% carbon, which is an element. Diamond is just a rare, crystalline form of the element carbon.
The sentence structure is as awkward as a three-legged goose, but the science is not really wrong.
To: JRandomFreeper
Economic geology, the geoscience of ore bodies, has a long history of success in finding and exploiting modern mines. What comparison is warranted with global warming which lacks any record of successful modeling? Snarks are fun and show your distain for anything labeled science but they don’t produce anything more than your elves.
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:53:04 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Notforprophet
Diamond is a form of the element carbon. However, the ruby certainly is a mineral as is its first cousin sapphire.
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:57:27 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
You missed that I was poking fun at the alleged scientists, climate change bozos.
I have no problem with real, repeatable science.
I will be more clear in the future, and you have my abject apology for the misunderstanding.
I'm familiar with economic geology in regards to uranium mining in Canada. It's not majik if it works, and that works.
/johnny
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