Moin,
aus dem "Mineralogical Record" 8/2005:
(...) How do you say "buyer beware" in Romanian? [Late note: I'd meant this as a rhetorical question, but from the desk of Wendell Wilson there flashes an answer: "Achizitor atenţie." Check your immediate perimeter before asking rhetorical questions…]. Anyway, Jaroslav Hyršl brings back from this year's Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines show the news that he saw, among the show's famously expansive spread of outdoor tents, booths and individual stands, "several tables" run by Romanian dealers where faked specimens "formed the majority" of the offerings, and one table filled "practically only" with fakes. He saw "matrix" stibnite specimens consisting of terminated Chinese stibnite crystals stuck into gray masses of finely ground-up, cemented stibnite; large gray octahedral crystals represented as scheelite, actually potassium alum, glued onto plates of drusy quartz; "
rhodochrosite" crystals which in fact are calcite stained pink by wet toilet paper. The newest rarity from Romania, judging by what was on hand at Ste.-Marie, seems to be "malachite" spheres made from mud mixed with green mica flakes and cemented onto quartz—the locality given for these was different at every stand where Jaroslav asked the question. Sorry to end this report on such a down note, but as-they-say Knowledge Is Power, as well as a Safeguarded Mineral Budget.
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