In a message dated 4/26/2002 5:24:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Robinosborne90@cs.com writes: > Fire Opal is my fav and birth stone as well. Soft stone though I lost my > favorite when it somehow crack. Fire opals keep their fire because of moisture in the stone, if they dry they lose the fire, and crack. Mineral; oil baths help keep the moisture in. Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) ~~ Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n d i c o t t, S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. Nv.)