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Hello Friend,

I must confess I am ignorant as to the environmental and cultural ethics around fossil coral. Can you educate me a bit? Where does this coral come from? How is it mined? Etc?

Thanks, so much, Phil
 
here is some information about this fossil coral.

"Brain Coral
A coral is a simple animal that lives in the sea.

Brain Corals get their name from their rounded and grooved surface that makes them look like a human brain.

Each coral animal feeds on minute food particles filtered out of passing sea water.

This Brain Coral belongs to the Family with the scientific name Faviidae. Corals can be difficult to identify from their skeleton alone, but this may be an example of the Boulder Brain Coral whose scientific name, or two-part or Latin binomial, is Colophyllia natans.

Each Brain Coral is made up of hundreds of genetically identical coral animals called polyps. Each polyp secrets its own skeleton that together form the brain-like skeleton.

The Brain Coral skeleton is made of calcium carbonate. The calcium carbonate is extracted out of sea water, and is the same material that is deposited on the inside of a kettle. Brain Corals are also known as stony corals and are important reef builders.

Coral live in warm, clear, shallow sea water and grow very slowly.. Brain Corals can grow to over 2 metres in diameter but this takes about 200 years.

Phil Dwyer said:
Hello Friend,

I must confess I am ignorant as to the environmental and cultural ethics around fossil coral. Can you educate me a bit? Where does this coral come from? How is it mined? Etc?

Thanks, so much, Phil
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Phil, I checked The list of threatened and endangered species, and had a cursory look at the Cites list and see nothing. I am sorry I don't know much else about it. It's a commonly traded material, I have found no reason to be concerned but I will keep looking.
 
We're actually not supposed to talk too much like this in the For Sale Forum Phil, but if you want to open a thread in another forum I think you might get answers to your question.
 
Mark Knapp said:
We're actually not supposed to talk too much like this in the For Sale Forum Phil, but if you want to open a thread in another forum I think you might get answers to your question.
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Thanks Mark! I believe I understand the point you are making and will take my general inquiry elsewhere. On-the-other-hand, I do not believe it is out of place to ask a vendor the source and processes of manufacture of a product.
 
Phil Dwyer said:
Thanks Mark! I believe I understand the point you are making and will take my general inquiry elsewhere. On-the-other-hand, I do not believe it is out of place to ask a vendor the source and processes of manufacture of a product.
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I am with you, I do not think it is out of line.
 
Hi Phil,

I have been researching the ethics (human/cultural and environmental impacts) of fossilised materials but have also been having trouble obtaining information about this.

Today I came across two artisans and the "Too Precious To Wear Campaign" (http://www.tooprecioustowear.org/) all of which are concerned with using ethical and sustainable materials in jewellery. I've emailed them, asking for advice on what to look for and how to access whether fossilised materials are sourced ethically. Hopefully some good advice and direction will come out of that, and I'll be able to post any information I gather here.

Have you had any success in finding answers to your questions?

Mariana

Phil Dwyer said:
Hello Friend,

I must confess I am ignorant as to the environmental and cultural ethics around fossil coral. Can you educate me a bit? Where does this coral come from? How is it mined? Etc?

Thanks, so much, Phil
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