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GRANITE EDGES - TAKING IT FOR GRANITE

I am intrigued by the fact that whenever a story involving minerals, rocks, or fossils appears in the popular media, you can be almost certain that it will contain at least one major mistake or will be reporting some activity involving a flawed understanding of some aspect of these materials. Examples abound. One of the most recent was a story about jewelry thefts presented on the television show 60 Minutes called "Boosting for Billions." Jewelry containing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of small diamonds had been stolen, and we were told that "within twenty-four hours the gems will have been recut [emphasis added] and the precious metals melted down." Of course, it is obvious that apart from the fact that there is no need to recut stones of common sizes, shapes and granite edges, even Santa's elves could not pull that one off in twenty-four hours. Stolen stones are recut only to prevent them from being recognized, and these are exclusively major stones with very characteristic features. Baltimore's The Sun this winter had an article about salt used for de-icing the streets and roads, stating that the most common form is made up of two elements, "sodium and chloride." Maybe I am being too nit-picky here and this sort of misinformation permeates the popular literature regardless of the subject matter, but that does not seem to be the case.