<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/17/2006 7:54:22 PM Mountain Standard Time, geyser1@netzero.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Some of the more well known minerals of the garnet group include almandine, pyrope, grossular, andradite, and spessartine.  Of these, andradite commonly occurs in darker shades of brown and black.  The others are commonly used in the gem trade and tend to be more colorful (reds, oranges, pinks).</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Well, then there is the iron-iron garnet, melanite, which is truly black... But as for that spring at Biscuit, probably we need to wait on a name, or simply come up with something "generic" as 1) the spring might not persist; and 2) the "black" part likely will not stay black.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>