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		<title>Buying Up the West Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest adventure to Arizona proved to be my most interesting trip to date! I met more of the major players in the rock world which will allow me the opportunity to provide a wider range of materials yet. The basic strategy still takes precedence when purchasing any quantity of rock, however when making large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=228</link>
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		<title>CABKING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Revolutionary Approach to Cabochon Grinding Machines.
A friend of mine in collaboration with a design engineer and marketed through Kingsley North Inc., has hit the lapidary world by storm. After several decades of lapidary work, I had wished for someone to devise a way to eliminate the need for changing the water in the trays [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=67</link>
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		<title>What is a rock?</title>
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a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter;
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth&#8217;s crust; as defined by Wikipedia

 
Most of today&#8217;s students would probably say it is a country in the Middle East. But as Lapidarist we know they are one of Earth&#8217;s Hidden Treasures. What most people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Cabking review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the cabking is the very best cabbing machine currently on the market. The option for waterflow allows fast work and always in fresh water&#8230;.very very nice! Thunderspirit
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		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=212</link>
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		<title>A Novice&#8217;s Experience with Lapidary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By George M. Lawrence
This writer has been collecting minerals and doing some slabbing and polishing for about a year, but obviously much was left to be learned. But a Good Samaritan was to offer us a weekend of “on-the-job” training during which the basics of creating from a rock, a semiprecious stone worthy of jewelry. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=15</link>
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		<title>How to Remove Flat-Spots (and ensuing scratches) from your cabs as you are cutting them.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Thomas Clark
Julie-Thomas Designs
June 2009
I scribe a series of axial lines over the face of the cab with an aluminum scribe. I make these up from a 6″ length of aluminum 1/8″ welding rod, and sharpen the point on the genie from time to time. I usually make what amounts to a 6 or 8 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Things to consider when writing the description about your Store:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In truth your store description is your ad about how you do business, what directed you to this particular market and your store policies. Start with a brief biography or anecdote about your adventures while involved with your specific field. Everyone has some type of humorous incident, which others can relate to. By recounting this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Pictorial-How to Remove Flat-Spots (and ensuing scratches) from your cabs as you are cutting them.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to Remove Flat-Spots (and ensuing scratches) from your cabs as you are cutting them.
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		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Health in Lapidary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Workshop Safety
This article is designed to enlighten the lapidary community to the potential for health risk when working with some of the materials of the trade. Many of us have been doing this for so long we have become complacent with how we do certain tasks. I am putting forth this newsletter as a gentle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Buying Rough Smartly!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, in the December 2008 issue of Jewelry Artist, I read an article by Helen I. Driggs, Managing Editor of Jewelry Artist, about 10 tips for buying cabochons. I got to thinking that the same restraints that applied for buying cabochons could also be applied to buying any rough material for cutting cabochons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minermattersgazette.com/?p=34</link>
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