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Your rarest material you've ever found.

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geoff59
starting to spend too much on rocks

Member since October 2022
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Your rarest material you've ever found. Nov 20, 2022 6:43:29 GMT -5 realrockhound likes this

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Post by geoff59 on Nov 20, 2022 6:43:29 GMT -5

From an old mica pegmatite, I have a pound or so of scorzalite (looks sort of similar to sodalite), I am thinking “is that the rarest?” I am not sure, I don’t have enough coffee in my blood yet.

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