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 Post subject: Check This Out
PostPosted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:55 pm 
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Location: Within 60 Miles of the Northern Anthracite Field
so we were dragging out our last cut of rock in the tunnel we are advancing at the mine a few days ago, and in the rock there is a cool quartz/iron pyrite seam. its pretty neat. so i grabbed a small piece and forgot about it till the wifie was just giving the mining clothes their weekly washing and found this in the bottom of the machine. mike, i even forgot to tell you about this when i picked it up...... oh well.

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dont let the images fool ya, this chunk is only about the size of a penny. there were more and some larger ones, they are loaded in the chute now :lol: this one i just grabbed cause it was in front of me and stuck it in the pocket.

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NOW THAT IS COOL 8)

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:08 am 
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Quartz veins - Iron Pyrite in Igneous rock


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Anything else you want to tell us you found??

The mineral is neat.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:52 am 
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yea maybe every once and a while ill let one slide out for ya, cant let all the surprises out all at once ya know!

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however doug, its from conglomerate rock, which is a type of sedimentary.

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Well that blows my theory.


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You could find a bunch of gems and make something for that gem of a wife of yours. Speaking of which, did you find that Kodak website ok?

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yea but i cant find out how to make the bloody thing. gotta look around a bit better, or just go down to the rite aid and make one.

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Yeah that is nice looking rock.. Small stringers of quartz add a nice taste to different rocks. I've found some good pieces of crystallized magnetite with quartz. Pretty neat..

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