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Viability is an abstract concept in the absence of a method and prototype. I've abandoned methods for lack of viability, but over time...

Which I gather is an operation of Saltspring Island Mussels?

Where are you located? Saltspring Island?

I had the pleasure of meeting Kiyoshi about a decade ago...and this man's Soul is as beautiful as the finest of his Gem-grade pearls...

We spent a bit of time with Mr. Yoneguchi yesterday, the last remaining pearl farmer on Lake Kasumi ga Ura. It's incredible how he...

Aragonite present would demand SEM/TEM analysis by a top shell microstructure authority. There would be no better choice than Professor...

The mussel, and thus the pearl sac, could have been having a bad time (stressed, sick, famine, etc) and the secretion of nacre was mixed...

Yes, I've advised a few blue zone collectors to keep an eye out. I've ruled out the larger specimens as filled gas nodules. I've...

Look forward to images! Definitely see the replication, as described by House, regularly-spaced blisters from the successive septal...

Predators and bumps against rocks can create points of entry too. Fragments of their own shells impaled in just the right place could...

But biology is the source of all earthly things beyond igneous rocks. P.S. Despite our deviations here, the thread title remains wholly...

A very interesting article @SteveM And since these creatures used to swim in the seas (not on the bottom) it makes sense no grain of...

Quite a find! And the information it could reveal...but I agree with you: I would not touch it, I would be afraid to damage it.

During my search for Cephalopod pearl precedents in the paleontological literature I came across the research of Michael House. His 1960...

The American Gem Trade Association just came out with a News Report about some nucleated freshwater -known as "Edison"- pearls being...