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BigFactory: Sep 17, 2002

Memento posted:

This is a piece of serpentinite (hydrothermally altered ultramafic rock) with small formations of stichtite (chromium-magnesium carbonate) from Dundas in Tasmania. Like most rocks in people's collections, this one is just neat and has cool colours. Rocks don't have to be scientifically interesting to be interesting.

Congrats on your asbestos collection. You could make some sick boiler insulation out of that.

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BigFactory: Sep 17, 2002

Memento posted:

It's not even close to forming the acicular crystal habit of asbestiform minerals, but keep being a hater I guess.

Learn some rocks before stepping up, junior.

That�s what they all say, until after a 20-30 year latency period they curse their serpentine collection under their (shallow) breath.

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BigFactory: Sep 17, 2002

Memento posted:

This is where I would say "you understand that there are plenty of serpentinite rocks that aren't asbestos" but you clearly don't. That's antogorite, which expresses as massive to platy monoclinic crystals, and associates commonly with the chrome-magnesium rich environment where stichtite forms.

That�s exactly what they want you to think. Lulled into a false sense of security.

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BigFactory: Sep 17, 2002

The Demilich posted:

Let's say I have a lot of beautiful but raw rocks, and I want to make them shiny smooth and glossy as hell like some of the above pics, how would I best go about doing that?

Tumblin, man

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