I've got something that you don't have

[low_delta]

I've got uranium in my garage.



And asbestos.

And a bunch of things I've never heard of. Dumontierite, anyone? Anthophyllite?

My great Aunt Clara liked to travel. She got these when she went out west, and glued them to green corduroy. I got them when I was young, along with one of shells from The Bahamas, on blue corduroy. I used to have them on my wall (way back when), and this one has been hovering around somewhere ever since. I guess I should get rid of it.

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[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

perhaps, you could donate it to a school if you want rid of it.

[i.livejournal.com]

excellent idea!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good idea.

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

Ooooo I love rocks! I took a geology course at Berkeley. Not traditionally part of the accounting curriculum, but I had to take a natural sciences class... it was wonderful.

Uh.... about the uranium....

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Damn! I'd finally found my claim to fame.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Well mine is homemade. So there! I suspect she picked them up individually in rock shops, but she might have gotten them in a set, and made a prettier displaly for them.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you ever come across it, and we can compare. Maybe they were from the same set?

[ex-friedrich47.livejournal.com]

One of my former girlfriends gave me a special "prayer bundle" when we were breaking up that had a sample of uraninite in it. I never let her forget about that!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Let me guess - it was a power stone?

I don't mind having it in my garage or basement, but I sure wouldn't want it around my neck or in a pocket.

[ex-friedrich47.livejournal.com]

I was thinking maybe sterilization?

[https://users.livejournal.com/-foryoublue/]

your rocks are much more organized than mine are.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Only because I didn't organize them!

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Those are such pretty rocks. I've always wondered what feldspar looked like. Too bad about the uranium in that sample.

I decided not to use my "Evil" icon

[eideteker.livejournal.com]

I would totally take that off your hands.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I wonder how much trouible I'd have sending uranium throuigh the mail?

Only, without the extraneous "i"

[eideteker.livejournal.com]

That was my thought, as well.

the extraneous "i"

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Which? "trouible" or "throuigh"? :-D

[emschin.livejournal.com]

Does feldspar have mica in it? Satinspar certainly looks like it does.

My sister,Hazel, used to collect rocks and classify them. She was also a stamp collector and at one time found all the rocks that were shown on a printing of rock stamps. She exhibited that in a local show, and also exhibited various mosses.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

that is SO COOL!

*loves rocks*

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Me too. I gots lots.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

the rock collection, er, rocks.
my parents brought home a small collection purchased at the grand canyon. it never even occured to me as a kid to take them off of the cardboard they were glued to! i wonder what happened to that.

i love yours! you should hang it up!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I'd like to hang it... somewhere. I wish I knew how harmful the uranium is.

[ex-friedrich47.livejournal.com]

You certainly don't want it hanging around your neck in a leather bag, I think.

ROCK ON!

[ex-friedrich47.livejournal.com]

Anthophyllite is rare, but can be abundant in mountain ranges where it occurs. It is a mafic (iron and/or magnesium-rich) silicate formed by metamorphism of clay or other mafic rocks. This sample actually looks like an anthophyllite gneiss, since it is banded. The lighter colored bands may be feldspar. Some of that red looks like

I think that should be dumortieritie, which appears to be a hydroxide of boron. I have never seen it before.

I am adding you, which I should have done some time ago.

Re: ROCK ON!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Interesting, thanks!

Do you know anything about Thulite or Kyanite? :-)

Re: ROCK ON!

[ex-friedrich47.livejournal.com]

Kyanite has a fairly simple formula, Al2SiO5, which is actually the same as two other minerals - sillimanite and andalusite. These are "polymorphs" which differ slightly in the lattice in which the atoms are arranged and the pressure-temperature (PT) conditions under which they form. Obviously, they are also aluminum ores. Both sillimanite and kyanite are fairly common, but sillimanite breaks down more easily whereas the large bladed kyanite crystals make nice samples for mineral labs and personal ecollections.

Re: ROCK ON!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Rock on, indeed!