Turquoise

Rock, you're right, I'll make it two again after each locality.
The assistance plea is fine the way you suggest, then we can indeed leave the descriptions cleaner.
The Henwoodite is brilliant!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2009 09:59AM by Harjo Neutkens.

Harjo,
Turquoise is a real tough one. Most of the localities produce cutting rough and not much in the way of what advanced mineral collectors would call specimens. I hope that a real raving lunatic of a turquoise lapidary guy will get disguised with the fine little specimen oriented article you are doing and weigh in with a lot of good pictures of rough and cut from different localities and help flesh out the article so that it will be more meaningfully and appealing to the general public who will hopefully come to Mindat to look for information on turquoise and at the same time give us the chance to rub their noses in mineralogy and geology.

I am typing this while looking down below the entry screen at an advertisement for "True Blue" Jewelry Gifts with some pictures of turquoise jewelry. Is that at the bottom of your Turquoise article as well? Has Jolyon already sold advertising space at the bottom of the article? If we can make similar gemstone related articles juicy enough perhaps he can sell more space. The more advertising revenue he can generate and we can help him generate the more secure the future of Mindat.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.

Haha, I was just looking at a BisbeeTurquoise add at the bottom of the page ;-)
You're Turquoise is a tough one in that respect, but also a nice one as it appeals to gem people as well as to the micromounters.

The ads are from Google and are at the bottom of the messageboard pages. They display targeted ads.

You mean that Google has automated crawlers that are able to go through such stuff as Best Minerals and automatically insert such adds?

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.

Jolyon has enrolled in AdSense and their software can look for keywords on a page and decide what ads to serve to the page.

Mindat has very fine turquoise photo's: I would like to introduce our turquoise mine, The Little Chalchihuitl in the Cerrillos Mining District at cerrillosturquoise.com.

Is it this one?
[www.mindat.org]

Patricia, Can you tell us something about your mine? The geology? How much turquoise does it produce? Can you upload some pictures of rough and cut specimens?

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.