I recently picked up some silver cleaning dip for some random jewelry and it occurred to me that this must be what y'all are referring to as the "dip". Is it normal to use on old silver coins? It's not considered cleaning or anything that would be frowned upon? Thanks for any of your insights.
Don't need info or anything. I just wanted to share a cool rock with fellow people that like rocks. I'm about to give up on reddit. Whatsthis rocks moderator is a sensitive crybaby that bans everyone for the most trivial things. Now RockHounds is over moderating as well. Sad.... I thought we all just like to get stoned and look for stones to share ya know... :)
Been curious about this since I found out about it. How could a people make these toys and put that much thought into them and never use it on a larger scale? It seems unlikely they wouldn't have figured out it works well for many things.
The lady got it in the painted desert. She was a hang glider instructor and this was propping the wind sock and the natives gave it to her when she was finished.
I found some chert (pretty sure) it's got a weird crust on it and on the bottom it's almost cement like. Ive got others that the cement part layers through it so it can't be modern cement. Plus I found them about 45 minutes from any road. What do y'all think?
So it would appear that the bottom part of this rock is all one type of sediment that abruptly changes to granite/quartz. What changed to make such a drastic change so fast?
There's a black layer on the bottom, quartz, then black again then granite.... What causes this kind of mixup?
Hey y'all, I have a probable meteorite and have a side cut and polished but need 3-5% nitric acid to etch the surface to be sure it's a meteorite. I can't find any locally and wondered if y'all knew of a big box store that sells it. I'm in Arizona. I only need a few drops of it.
So there's a few of these around this one area and they look like they are perfectly split and most have slipped a little like this one.