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 Posted 09/03/2008  1:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KurtS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coop, you got me curious--are these digitally edited or are they fakes?
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 Posted 09/04/2008  8:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Photo-shop. I've got quite adept with it. Probably no one would have caught on if I hadn't mentioned it.
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 Posted 09/05/2008  12:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add foundinrolls to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Of course some of us would have:-)
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 Posted 09/05/2008  12:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KurtS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coop, you do some cool stuff with PS!
It's also a cautionary lesson that any coin photo can be doctored with enough expertise.
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The problem with mercury, is not in the eating so much, as in the HEATING. The vapors are very poisonus, (sp). That was one of the very first thing the old gold miners found our when they were amalgamizing the gold, (disolving the gold with the mercury, and then putting in a potato to "bake the mercury off, leaving the gold pellet. The portato was poisoned, and the fumes from the baking caused more than a few miners to die.
Latr: I was trying to remember the name of the natural state in which mercury, or 'quicksilver" appears. I think it is feldspar. The pellet, bythe way will appear to be a golden piece of cheese, not a solid nugget. getting back to the vapors, the first thing we were warned about was the mercury vapor rectifier tubes, used th "rectify the AC, voltage to Pulsating DC". All electronic equipment used the vacuum tubes. The rectifier, was just one of them, BUT the most dangerous, as well.
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The most common natural occurring mineral form of mercury is cinnabar. there are at least 28 other mercury bearing minerals as well but most of them are rare. Here are 20 of them.
aurivilliusite, clearcreekite, deanesmithite, edgarbaileyite, edoylerite, hanawaltite, peterbaylissite, wattersite, szymanskiite, tedhadleyite, vasilyevite, montroydite, schuetteite, calomel, gianellaite, mosesite, terlinguaite, eglestonite, metacinnabar, and donharrisite.

Feldspars come in different forms and have no mercury. The minerals associated with them are Potassium, Aluminum, Calcium and Sodium.
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We have an old Cinnabar mine near where I live--the New Almaden mine. This was active from Spanish colonial days through the gold rush, and I'm sure it supplied all the needs for mining. To this day, you cannot eat fish taken from local lakes due to mercury accumulating in the food chain.
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