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Hello fellow pearl people! Recently, Steve Metzler contacted me and put me in touch with Ana Vasilu who is doing research on shell formation at the University of Granada in Spain. We have been corresponding and I have sent samples of shell anomalies to Ana Via Steve. It has caused me to write...

Say "Abalone Anomalies" 10 times in a row as fast as you can! OK, couldn't resist. As I mentioned at the end of the "Abalone Gone Buggy" thread, I've found some very interesting oddities in some of my abalones. When I've come across these in the past, I've usually set them aside to look at in...

Interesting article on connection between the environmental and economic meltdown. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08friedman.html?emc=eta1 I've read some interesting research that shows evidence that every collapse of a civilization was precipitated by an environmental collapse in the...

A client of mine has brought in a pendant and a ring that she has inherited. She would like my opinion of them and, after looking at them, I told her that there is some chance that one or both of them were set with natural pearls. I am posting photos of them here along with description and...

What would a fast 7 meter rise in the oceans levels mean to pearl production--or about any enterprize one might name....... http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0809/full/climate.2008.88.html

Sometimes a graphic illustration can make things clearer. Here is one to take a look at: http://www.sciencenewsblog.com/cgi-bin/snblog.pl?snblog=1222071

This report, dated July 7, 2008, titled "The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008" states that Nearly half of U.S. coral reef ecosystems are considered to be in "poor" or "fair" condition according to a new NOAA analysis of the health of...

~Ocean Acidification Hits Great Barrier Reef~ Yes, this is a repeat of my latest posting in the "Green Pearl..." thread. I have also put it in it's own thread because of the probable importance of this bit of news. To my knowledge it is the first direct, measurable evidence that the process of...

As promised long ago--a pendant that I have titled: "Strapless Gown, Plunging Neckline, with Freckles." Abalone Mabe' made from natural, wild-grown, blister-pearl, 45mm X 23mm (1.78 in. X .9 in.) and adorned with a .40 ct. ruby. This mabe' is as I found it and cut it from the shell. Even the...

Pteria Sterna, identified as the "Winged Oyster" native to the Gulf of California, has been found around the California Gulf Islands. See report at...

So--this thread is to address concerns that pearl people have re: Global Warming and other environmental concerns. A huge problem that is facing us that I have come to see as even more of a concern than the "Warming" part of Global Warming is the increasing acidification of the oceans as they...

Ve-e-e-e-r-r-y interesting.:rolleyes: http://cgi.ebay.com/Estate-30-Inch-Tennessee-River-1920-s-Pearl-Necklace_W0QQitemZ220299586184QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220299586184&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

OK. Here are the photo's of shells that I found in my supplies--taken in diffuse natural light. As you can see, parts of them have been made use of as inlay.:D I probably have some more but can't lay my hands on them at the present. I put the small portion in to show the variation in color that...

The post by Sleight under Tahitian Pearls--Stinky Pearl Dilemma-- reminded me of something I found a solution to when I was assembling the crab bolo with the tahitian pearl tips. I was half-drilling one of the tahitians when--wouldn't you know it--the drill hit a loose nucleus (fortunately...

Here's one that I finished this morning. It's strictly a J. Marcus production. I couldn't figure out just what to make from it for a while but the pendant Jeremy made from the Natural Abalone pearl set it's course. It's such a unique mabe'. I've never obtained another that would finish out very...

I have very slowly been attempting to put together a grading system that would allow for at least some objectivity in the evaluation of naturally formed Abalone pearls, specifically mabe's. (I've been using a simple formula to calculate the height to width dome ratio, for instance.) If anyone...

Bill Lynch of Fairhaven Gold in Bellingham just loves crabbing! The crabbing he does on Puget Sound involves the Dungeness variety. (...to differentiate it from the crabbing he does in the shop. . .) After thinking about it for a lo-o-o-ng time, he finally commissioned a spectacular wax carving...

Here's a mans' pendant made up in sort of a Hawaiian style, archaic, fish-hook made of fossil walrus ivory and carved by Ken Fredricks. I modified it to hold one of my small abalone mabe's for bait. It hangs from a 14K white gold jump ring secured with artifucial siniew. The beads, also by Ken...

It was such a surprise to log on and not find "The Other Pearls!" I'm kind of at a loss here because my abalone mabe's, even though they start out as natural blister pearls, don't qualify as natural after I've processed them into mabe's and they're certainly not cultured. So--where do I go to...

A few weeks ago I was on a beach on Chuckanut Bay (Washington) and I came across a clamshell measuring 62mm X 50mm (about 2.5" X 2") that is a lovely shade of purple on the inside. My first thought was to wonder if Quahogs had not somehow been transported to the Pacific side of the continent...