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Nov 25, 2022 19:20:17 #
Mined from a quarry south of Marquette iin the UP of Michigan, the color is tinted by iron ore.
This another of my collection of stones unique to the state
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This another of my collection of stones unique to the state
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Nov 25, 2022 19:21:59 #
Bob Yankle wrote:
Mined from a quarry south of Marquette iin the UP of Michigan, the color is tinted by iron ore.
A rock
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This is Kona Dolomite. While dolomite is not unique to Michigan, this reddish tinted variety is only found in a quarry in Kona Hills, in the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan
Nov 26, 2022 14:14:33 #
Bob Yankle wrote:
Mined from a quarry south of Marquette iin the UP of Michigan, the color is tinted by iron ore.
This another of my collection of stones unique to the state
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This another of my collection of stones unique to the state
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Oh, Bob, you are bringing back memories.
When I was in elementary school, my father was a long haul truck driver and one day when he came back from a job taking mining gear to a company somewhere in the great plains he brought me a shoebox full of carded, labeled mineral samples from the company gift shop at a large mine site that gave tours. I was fascinated by that kit. Many years later when I took Geology 101 in my Freshman year of college, each student got a huge kit of similar samples and learned to test them etc. I dug out that old shoebox and took it in to class one day. The Prof was impressed, it even had a couple of things his kit didn't.
He had a network of former students all over the world who sent him huge boxes of minerals to add to and refill his kits. One day during class, the college plant manager and a few of his guys showed up at class with a couple of pallets of boxed samples from somewhere in the Middle East. They were grumbling about the weight of all those "rocks" that appeared several times a year at the college.
I still have the pocket microscope from that class, and my field notebook is in a box somewhere around the house. The kit was left in my Grandmother's house when I went to the Army. She passed in the mid 70s and her things got moved to different relatives' homes when her house was sold, and I am not sure who ended up with my mineral kit and the large chunk of clay with carbonized leaves between layers from back in the last period of glaciers making it to the Ohio Valley about 14,000 years ago.
Nov 26, 2022 14:19:46 #
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