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From: hutch@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Using a light spell as a laser
Message-ID: <1690@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 18:15:20 EST
Article-I.D.: hammer.1690
Posted: Thu Dec  5 18:15:20 1985
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Reply-To: hutch@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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In article <2388@flame.warwick.UUCP> kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker) writes:
>In article <1658@hammer.UUCP> hutch@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) writes:
>>Garnets, sapphires, rubies
>>and some other odd (low-grade) greenish and yellowish stones are corundum.
>
>No no no... garnets aren't corundum.  They're silicates.
>
>							Kay.

Are you absolutely certain?  The gemologist at the Gem Mountain mines
in Montana, where I spent 3 days this summer digging up sapphires,
told me that the sugar-garnets I found were corundum, but so low-grade
as to be nearly useless except as "pretty rocks".

(Yes, I did also find sapphires.)

Hutch