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Mineral Tattoo?

Posted by Jamison K Turnbull  
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Jamison K Turnbull
Mineral Tattoo?
May 07, 2008 08:14PM
Just a little curiosity. Anyone have any?
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Colin Robinson
Re: Mineral Tattoo?
May 07, 2008 10:27PM
Can't send a photo but I have a nice mineral tattoo on my left little finger where it was crushed by a fluorite-rich boulder that was much heavier than I thought it was.
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David M Maietta
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May 08, 2008 12:49AM
Black dot of graphite in the web between thumb and forefinger from stabbing myself there with pencil in third or fourth grade.
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Alfredo Petrov
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May 08, 2008 02:12AM
If you consider asphalt to be a mineral, I have lots of tiny bits of it forming patchy tattoos in my knee and foot. (Note to self: human skin rubbing against the road is not an efficient motorbike brake. Pick a different method next time.)
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Jeffrey Weissman
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May 08, 2008 02:28AM
I had a pectolite fiber in my thumb for about 15 years
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Linda Smith
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May 08, 2008 02:38AM 		us    
How about a small scar from a wayward rock thrown by a little brother.
Linda
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Frank de Wit
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May 08, 2008 11:40AM
some fumes from fumaroles I should not have inhaled ;-) some dust I should probably not have eaten, some scars from when I should have stopped hammering and some mental damage. That's all :-)
I should tattoo myself somewhere though... "minerals hurt" on my left hand would be the right text (I'm right handed and always hit my left hand somehow)
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Jamison K Turnbull
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May 08, 2008 04:43PM
Well thats acually better then I hoped. I also have a few graphite spots from childhood. What I ment was actual tattoos of minerals.
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Justin Zzyzx
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May 08, 2008 09:34PM
I've been planning on getting a band of Chrysotile around my right arm. That would be a pretty sweet mineral tattoo, eh?

Donations? =)
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Frank de Wit
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May 08, 2008 09:49PM
ok Justin... ok, the challenge is on
I then go for a boulangerite-ring for around my middle finger :-)
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Peter Andresen
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May 08, 2008 09:52PM 		no    
I was just about to put my arm under the scanner and claim the hairs to be chrysotile... grinning smiley

But what about some fancy cyclic twinning, like sagenite...
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Gail Spann
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May 09, 2008 12:31AM 		us    
I just can't get into the tatoo thing....I volunteered at a nursing home when young and there is nothing uglier than an aged person with tatoos, yuck!
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Justin Zzyzx
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May 09, 2008 02:36AM
But Gail,
Nothing is cooler than my grandfathers' blurry hula girl on his forearm.

He got that when he was 13 and drunk. Not a good, but a common combination for a quality tattoo! Drinking and inkin!

Donations can be paypal'ed to Justin@the-vug.com =)

Cassiar jade green Chrysotile, 2.5 inches wide, around my right arm. Would that not be the coolest mineral tattoo ever?
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Ray Hill
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May 09, 2008 08:36AM
I want to tattoo my right hand, with a circle and a line diagonally through it, saying 'for minerals not hammers', as the joints of the fingers and the finger tips have been flattened one or two times too many, by not heeding that simple instruction
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Dr. Paul Bordovsky
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May 09, 2008 04:37PM
I've done tooth tattoos on the side of new crowns, for certain patients
that have asked......baseballs, outline of Texas with a star in Austin's location,
team emblems, the leaf of a certain mind expanding herb.....<grin>.

I suppose a blue cap tourmie, or a quartz cluster wouldn't be too difficult.

Paul
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Dave Varabioff
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May 10, 2008 02:50AM
well, mineral SORT of..............does a gold mine count? The miner is inside the mine with gold nuggets flying off the end of his pick, in the background is the portal to the mine, and you can see outside (it aint finished on the front yet), and then on the back............well, its the outside of the mine and you can see him inside.............you shouldnt have asked!! hahahahah
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Dave Varabioff
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May 10, 2008 02:52AM
and now my back, ill send a few piks
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Bill Gordon
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May 10, 2008 10:17AM 		gb    
Dave, do you want to hire "Calamity Pain" to guard the mine?

Bill G
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Dave Varabioff
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May 11, 2008 01:39AM
Yea, Bill, she would do!!
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