[RPM] Gem Lore, Lapidaries and Precious Stones as Traditional Trappings

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

The US government distributed 270 samples as goodwill gifts about 1970, 180 of which are unaccounted for, and some of which seem now to be simulants. If you told me Kessler had acquired one I wouldn't refuse to suspend disbelief.

Oooh, oooh! We got one (Iceland, that is) and until a few years ago, it was lying uncategorized and unaccounted for. A friend of mine working at the Prime Minister's office found it in diplomatic records and had someone figure out what to do with it. I think it's now at a museum or something.

Anyway, he told me that he briefly considered not mentioning his find to anyone and just taking the rock home. Not a single thing would have stopped him, but, then again, there is absolutely no way that he could have profited from doing so (beyond the pleasure of owning the rock personally and telling nobody, ever, about it). The evidence needed to authenticate it would have had to been left in obscure paper records no one had computerized or even thought about for decades.

Originally Posted by Agemegos

Besides that, some meteorites consist of material of lunar origin.

Ah, indeed.