This weekend, we went to the Edmonton gem and mineral show. I thought it would be a good way to get my Drumheller fix without actually having to drive all the way to Drumheller. But it kinda backfired on me cuz now I want to go to Drumheller even more.
We were kind of disappointed at how few Canadian gems and minerals were there. Stones were also really expensive and overly processed. I had hoped to find a bit of ammolite (an Alberta gemstone), but pieces smaller than my pinky finger were way too expensive for me and besides, I wished they had been polished just a touch to bring out the colour but not so much to make them look fake. I'm not a big fan of stones that are polished, pierced with holes, or grinded into unnatural shapes (like the bin of rock skulls we saw). And a lot of the jewelry had out-dated settings so we didn't get anything except a piece of fossilized coral.
We like things weird.
ugh, yeah, i hate the super polished and shaped stones that don't really even look like stones any more. that piece of coral you got though is really gorgeous!
ReplyDeletei went to this gem & mineral show last may (and i may go to it again in two weeks) that did have some really beautiful stones, and some of the prices weren't too bad, but i guess there will always be the rock skulls and amethyst hearts because some people are just drawn to everything gaudy!