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Re: From the crystallographic point of view... Posted by CrNiFe [Email] (#408) [Profile/Gallery] (more from CrNiFe) on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:43:15 In Reply to: Re: From the crystallographic point of view..., Carolyn, Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:03:50 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Exactly - pretty hard to sell you something on it supposed qualitative merits if you know all about point groups, cleavage planes, and reciprocal lattice structures as determined by a TEM! I think everyone should have a TEM sample done of their rings, for authenticity purposes.
In a nice turn of events, while I was doing my Master`s, a colleague asked me to help coach the women`s geology intramural hocket team. That was twenty years ago, and two of them ended up in the NWT, working for DIAND, and get this, with a mandate to assist and develop tools for diamond exploration in NWT and Nunavut. It gets better because one of their husbands actually found kimbetlite containing diamonds on the Melville Peninsula.
I like the fact that the two best diamond ex companies, Shear and Stornoway are run by Canadian women geologists... Eira Thomas is pretty well the only woman in the world to wear diamond earrings from a mine that she found.
When yours comes around, make sure its got that little polar bear or maple leaf on it!
Cheers,
CrNiFe
B.E.Sc.(Materials) Western Ontario; M.Sc.(Eng.) Metallurgical, Queen`s.
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