u/GhostsinGlass

5+1 vugs, or crystal pockets or whatever. 5 bigger ones circling the sides of the stone, then a small one fulla spheres.

Never seen a rock like this around here. Lots of agate, and this one looks agatey, but it also is all over the place.

Used some mineral oil to get past the grinding scratches for photos.

Until I can locate its next of kin on Mindat I am just gonna call this unit a dingleberry, it is a space rock from Uranus. Cause it stinks a bit, sulfur maybe.

Eh, ehhh? Can't edit videos well on a phone but you get the idea.

Gave the brush a bris, drilled a hole through the handle into the foam itself, dipped the wood in penetrating lubricant, shoved the sawed-off brush up the water pipe.

Fresh water supplied one stop wet wiping.

Gonna buy a buncha plastic handled units for longevity.

Coming from the world of wood I've picked up some random bits and bobs of information over time. There's an exotic hardwood that smells exactly like Bullseye Original BBQ sauce whose name I can't remember off the top of my head. There's a wood that causes violent outbursts of sneezing, called sneezewood if you can believe it.

Stuff like that.

Tell me, is there any interesting exotic information you have? Perhaps something that gives you a giggle. Are there any minerals that should never be mixed but can at times exist in a matrix together? Are their geodes that instantly become garbage the minute they're opened? What stone is the most bizarre in your opinion? Just as examples.

Northern Ontario, Kakabeka area outside Thunder Bay

Tried to get it under all kinds of light. Thought it was my friend pyrite at first blush but then didn't notice any cubic crystals but rather the melty runny look instead. Very metallic.

Thank you kindly.

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Lots more pics this time. Lots of funky granites. There's a special rock at the end, so ugly it's a masterpiece, what the french call a penis de resistance.

I had mentioned in my acid bath post that I had too many rocks to make a before and after video for the acid clean.

Current count from picking up rocks while out and about or messing around outdoors is 8 x 5 gallon buckets and 6 milk crates over the past 3-4 weeks.  +1 bucket today.

Winter here in Northwestern Ontario is long and boring. So I need stock to slab, cab, polish, make art from, make pens etc

Found in Northwestern Ontario, Superior.

The thing was just a ball of iron oxide, gritty and falling apart. This is where many iron out dips and toof brushing got me.

Hunk of quartz or marble all wrapped up in iron rich flora/fauna fossils?

Many thanks if you can tell me about this unit, she ain't cute that's for sure.

Polishes nice I figure for as little time as I put into it, beercap underneath for scale.

Big digging up chunks of this in the back yard, couple milk crates full of baseball to grapefruit sized chunks.

Would help if you had proof of purchase or something but whatever.

Three young junkie guys were walking by pushing it so I liberated it from the little lowlife fucks. We have a whole new herd of shitheads downtown all of a sudden and anything not nailed down seems to be up for grabs to be hauled to the encampment growing along McVicar.

I don't know much about these things but I figure some mom might be missing it.

Will post the results after I process a few 5 gal pails.

Looks suspiciously edible.