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Tuffty
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Merry Christmas General Chat lounge thread and Community from all over the World that use these forums and this thread.

Hope 2021 is a better year for all then 2020 was. I think we want to forget 2020 ever happened.

Have a safe Christmas and enjoyable 1 if you can where ever you are in the World.

All our very best. Tuffty. Billy, Pepper and Alfie. XXXXXX <(for the ladies)
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24-Dec-2020 14:44:03

Corder
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Thanksss.... have a lovely Christmas everyone :) :)

We'll need Hermione to cast an obliviate spell on us to erase 2020 out.
Life is like a camera: Just focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don't work out, take another shot !

24-Dec-2020 14:54:44

Ailysse
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Thanks Tufty.

Merry Christmas to you and those lovely birds. Hope you have got them some festive treats for tomorrow.

Merry Christmas to everyone, please keep safe, hang in there, and hopefully in a few months we may be able to start living normally once more

:) :) :) :)

24-Dec-2020 16:30:05

Trewavas
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Thanks, J enesis. Same to you. :)

Did you also see our early Christmas present? A lovely new mineral found in an old sample! I wonder if anything that we have contains any unknowns? :P

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24-Dec-2020 17:00:55

Ailysse
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I did Trewavas, the Kernowite. Perfect name....Have been checking the (few unfortunately) pieces of liroconite and other Gorland etc specimens that we have to see if anything like it might be there but cannot see anything.

We have never and probably shall never find a new mineral, but we did have confirmed by the Natural History Museum some chalcosiderite from Gunnislake Clitters Mine, that had not been recorded from there previously. it was nowhere near as nice as the Phoenix United specimens though

Think that will be our one and only claim to fame

We gave some to another collector and I believe it is now shown on Mindat

24-Dec-2020 17:18:41 - Last edited on 24-Dec-2020 17:25:04 by Ailysse

Trewavas
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Yes, it was lovely to see the story. To think that for all this time, the specimen was sat in a cupboard in the vaults of the museum. Sadly, the site is yet another lost to development in the area. In one way it's progress and needed, but at the same time, a loss for a little slice of history. I would refrain from buying one of those houses, though!

That's a lovely story! I haven't sent anything off. I do have a lovely piece of 'Peacock Ore' which was gifted to my Grandfather by a friend employed by Geevor at the time. He appears in quite a few of their photos over at the new museum that has been sent up over there. I guess it's made even nicer by the fact that it came from a place unlikely to be visited again, at least in the near future.

It is nice to hear that those pieces are now on Mindat. :)

24-Dec-2020 17:38:43

Ailysse
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I am tempted to buy a house over the old Wheal Gorland sett, just in the hope that the garden walls may have something very interesting in them. :) Wouldn`t want to wake up in the morning and find half of it down a collapsed hole in the back garden though.

Think the Russell Society did a bit of an excavation at Wheal Unity not too far back. Don`t know what they found there though

24-Dec-2020 17:48:08

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