Pricing Mica-WOW!

[Afox13420]

Why is it so gosh darn expensive? $25.50 for a 6" x 8" piece! This is unbelievable. What is so special about Mica?

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ June 13, 2006 08:27 PM: Message edited by: 1953 Chambers ]</font>

[lowracer]

Probably the main reason is the mica miner's union has a very strong hand at the bargaining table. Those mica miner's union bosses don't take any schist from management, that's for sure.

[phoebe9435]

That 6x8 pice does a few stoves I believe. It is splitable AND cutable. Do a search - there were many references a few months ago - people were able to sell pices to one another on the Board.

This Board is so sleepy lately - I don't know where everyone is - there is usually so many more answers (and helpfull ones, at that) from the old timers and folks with experience.

You might even want to ask if anyone has a small piece of mica to sell.(also known as eisenglass).

Good luck