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Hello! We in this forum section include a wide variety of earth science interests, from professional to novice hobbyists. Here you will find collectors of minerals, fossils, rocks, and so on, with lapidaries, geologists, teachers, and more. We have been trading information and specimens. We are looking for new participants! If you do not find any topics on this message board that sound like your interests, read them all anyway. Due to wandering conversations, at times you would have found fluorescent minerals discussed in the 'turtle fossils' topic, radioactive minerals discussed in the 'rockhound forum' topic, and other surprises. Feel free to jump into any discussion with questions or comments – if we did not want other people joining in, we would use private E-mail. Whether or not you find people sharing your interests, post a message introducing yourself. Tell us what subjects you are interested in, what you might like to learn/buy/sell/trade, and where you are. Someone you do not see here may answer; that is how this recent burst of activity started! Or one of us may know something about your field that does not show in the other messages. Don't make it a reply to this message (let's try to keep one topic name honest!); start a new topic hinting at your field of interest. If you find this group too small to be of much interest, stick around and be active anyway! We just got the snowball rolling in late August '92, and like to think that there are many potential new members out there. Your activity may attract more passers-by, especially those who share your interests more closely than we do. At present, messages are lasting roughly 6-8 days on this message board, though there was one time when messages lasted only 3-4 days. In this section's library 12 you will find mineral databases, rockhounding documents, and trade/sale lists.