Salt Water Pearls in N.B.

Multicolored Blue Mussel Pearls

Multicolored Blue Mussel Pearls

I do find small pearls here in southern N.B. The pearls are from 1 mm up to 3 mm in size and are in many colors.


These are located in salt water mussels and my question is can a pearl cultivator take these small pearls and insert them into other mussels or oysters and have them continue to grow.


Clayton

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Oct 21, 2022
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starstarstarstarstar 		White pearl found
by: Anonymous

Hello everyone,
Back in 2020 when covid hit my family and I were moving from Saskatchewan to New Brunswick but due to the restrictions in place we had to isolated to be available to enter the province. We stayed at the city of Charlo in front of the ocean.As we finished the isolation period we went to look for sea glass in the beach. As I was looking what the wives were bringing to my surprise I found what it looks like a pearl. So the question is where can I get it to be check? If is the real thing. Thank you and have a nice day 😊
Aug 13, 2008
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starstarstarstarstar 		Clayton sold 2 pearls
by: Kari

Clayton was able to sell 2 of his blue mussel pearls to Sue who was working with a young cancer patient and teaching him about gemology.

See her story here.

Thank you, Clayton, for sharing your interesting salt water blue mussel pearls with Sue and Steven, I know they were thrilled with your blue and pink pearls.
May 22, 2008
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by: Clayton

YES i am located i N.B Canada. The pearls are found in blue mussels that grow here.

Ihave been unable to forward a picture due to your server problems.

Clayton
May 19, 2008
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starstarstarstarstar 		New Brunswick?
by: Kari

Hi Clayton,

I'm assuming the N.B. is New Brunswick, right?

The pearls you're finding are in what kind of salt water mussel?

As for your question, yes, I think that is done on some pearl farms. Usually, however, they are nucleated with beads made from shells or even nucleated with just mantle tissue.

Thanks so much for sharing about your Canadian pearls. We'd love to see a photo too.

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