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Archive for February, 2010
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Heat Treating Minerals
There are a great many minerals
that can be heat treated as shown in
the forum post. Heat treating these
different minerals can result in some
outstanding color enhancements !
Here is a picture of some showing
a Brazilian Agate before, intermediate,
and a fully heat treated cabs.
Slow increments of raising the heat
and lowering the heat makes a
difference between highly [...]
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