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Post by mohs on Sept 17, 2016 11:09:15 GMT -5
It was terrible. All my rocks & equipment caught fire. Spontaneous Mineral Combustion (SMC). Up in smoke. A flowing river of lava. I was devastated…mostly. Then I woke up!  All my rocks were right where I left them! Safe! Patiently awaiting my TLC.  Just a bad dream from licking rocks, I suppose
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gemfeller
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Post by gemfeller on Sept 17, 2016 12:12:52 GMT -5
It was terrible. All my rocks & equipment caught fire. Spontaneous Mineral Combustion (SMC). Up in smoke. A flowing river of lava. I was devastated…mostly. Then I woke up! All my rocks were right where I left them! Safe! Patiently awaiting my TLC. Just a bad dream from licking rocks, I suppose Don't be lulled into a state of complacency Ed. Big Rock can crush you. To make your inevitable demise more bearable you might crank up your favorite Rolling Stones tunes and hunt up one of those Sonora Toads to lick. |
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Post by mohs on Sept 17, 2016 12:45:42 GMT -5
 Its an old lore Rick And if you go chasing Sonoran toads & it leads you to the Big Rock Tell 'em that Hutton as given you the call 
Go ask Mohs!!
I know he’ll know w/ logic & proportion calcite scratches gypsum and the rock scale goes to 11 Remember! what the Big Rock Hound said: kiss your toads lick your stones
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barclay
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Post by barclay on Sept 17, 2016 15:43:16 GMT -5
Someone on one of these boards posted a MSDS for malachite and said look the only metal in it is copper so it is "safe". I had to point out to them that the MSDS was for the ideal chemically pure version of malachite and could not be taken as gospel for actual malachite that is mined. Natural malachite probably has some lead, nickel, zinc and other metals. Sometimes those "trace" elements are more dangerous than the main ingredients. The concern with Congo malachite is its arsenic content. Not the copper. Perfect illustration. It would be nice if only malachite from the Congo was the only one that could contain arsenic, etc. Rocks are wonderfully inconsistent that way |
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Post by barclay on Sept 17, 2016 15:48:57 GMT -5
funny, thanks for sharing.
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