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Not sure if these resources have been shared before, but this is how professional collection managers deal with pyrite disease/decay/rot. From the LA County Natural History Museum: https://lacmip.github.io/emu/documentation/pyritedecay/ June, 2019 Volume 11 of the Geological Curator is devoted to the subject: https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol11/geocurator_11_1.pdf Fenlon and Petrera's paper on page 9 has a good discussion about various coatings which were historically used as well as what the current best practice. It seems the current best practice for museums is storage in low oxygen microenvironments, i.e. storing it in a cardboard box with plastazote foam, putting in an RP System(R) Type K oxygen scavenger, and sealing in Escal (TM) Neo barrier film.
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Hi everyone, I was given this fossil that has some copper foil on it. Does anyone know why this foil is there? I have reached out to a couple shops like Fossil Era and they had no clue... if anyone has seen this I'd love to understand more. Attached are a picture of the foil, as well as the documentation that came with the gift, in case that looks familiar to anyone. Thank you for your time, David
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I was wondering how people store their fossils. Mine started off in jars, which protected them from dust and allowed me to display and look at them. When I got slabs of clay I used cardboard boxes to store them, and small items have wooden trays, boxes and drawers. Now I have bookcases of boxes and wooden storage, and a cabinet. Is there anything you do to conserve fossils? I'm looking at storing pyratised material separately with sillica gel sachets to delay or prevent deterioration. Do you catalogue your collection, and/or photograph it? I do this with parts of my collection, the bits that are most interesting to me. I don't with my zillions of serpulid tubes. Do you have a pile of less interesting fossils that you can't bring yourself to get rid of? I take quite a bit home that I think I will discard if it turns out to be uninteresting. And yet I still have so many worm tubes.
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I just bought 2 partial stegodon jaw`s with some megs from indonesia. Shoud I put something on them to conserve them? Thansk a lot
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snolly (accompanied and supervised by the intrepid snollywife) spent a very pleasant, thought provoking evening at a lecture by Joel Sartore. Sartore is a National Geographic photographer, and founder of the Photo Ark project (link below). His presentation included both video and stills of his wonderful photographic efforts. With humor and self-revelation, his talk laid out the fundamental facts regarding the realities of survival for the animal world and indeed, our foolish selves. A private reception following the lecture afforded the opportunity to meet Sartore. In person he proved to be a warm, affable individual with an infectious love of the natural world. It was time well spent, and if the opportunity arises for interested Forum members, I would certainly recommend attendance of this presentation. https://www.joelsartore.com/gallery/the-photo-ark/
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