Hi everyone. I'm pretty new here. I've been a free member for a few months or so but today I joined up because I really appreciate the community here.
Very nice, thank you.
This is my 1st post!
I found some rocks a few years back that were very ugly, with lots of those deep earth tone all throughout. I put them in my garden. Having purchased a book called fist full of gold? I think. The author is Chris Ralph. I was looking at a section discussing ore, which I know nothing about. The constant was that ore can be some of the ugliest stuff around. Ironically I picked the rocks because they would add nice contrast to a flower bed. About 2 weeks ago I soaked the rock in the strong HD vinegar that I passed upon.
Today I took the rock out and was super confused. about 60% of the rock is gone and this is what remained. Really pretty and ohh so delicate. The black stones are matt in reflection, ugly, not crystalish in anyway, mega hard to scratch and non magnetic, and seem to be fused into the white structure always attached to the yellow ribbon. However it presents in the same pattern iron would rust. The white, what I think/thought to be quartz is redicusly fragile, as is the yellow ribbon. I've only known quartz to be stupid strong but fractures where it wants easy enough. hmmmm, the ribbon and the peaks are fragile like if you took a thin piece of that gift bag tissue paper and dipped it in liquid nitrogen. better yet, a piece of that no name gas station near transparent toilet paper dipped in liquid nitrogen. like that.
The ribbon varies in thickness (this is a different metric than the toilet paper fragility example) from 1 gift wrap tissue thick to 3 layers of tissue.
phone colors are strange. I'd describe the yellow ribbon as two tone. let's just say the top half of the ribbon is sorta bright orange yellow, the reserve side of the ribbon in like a burnt umber.
hmmmm, The last observation is that it's kind of heavy for the volume it would displace.
Thank you.
Very nice, thank you.
This is my 1st post!
I found some rocks a few years back that were very ugly, with lots of those deep earth tone all throughout. I put them in my garden. Having purchased a book called fist full of gold? I think. The author is Chris Ralph. I was looking at a section discussing ore, which I know nothing about. The constant was that ore can be some of the ugliest stuff around. Ironically I picked the rocks because they would add nice contrast to a flower bed. About 2 weeks ago I soaked the rock in the strong HD vinegar that I passed upon.
Today I took the rock out and was super confused. about 60% of the rock is gone and this is what remained. Really pretty and ohh so delicate. The black stones are matt in reflection, ugly, not crystalish in anyway, mega hard to scratch and non magnetic, and seem to be fused into the white structure always attached to the yellow ribbon. However it presents in the same pattern iron would rust. The white, what I think/thought to be quartz is redicusly fragile, as is the yellow ribbon. I've only known quartz to be stupid strong but fractures where it wants easy enough. hmmmm, the ribbon and the peaks are fragile like if you took a thin piece of that gift bag tissue paper and dipped it in liquid nitrogen. better yet, a piece of that no name gas station near transparent toilet paper dipped in liquid nitrogen. like that.
The ribbon varies in thickness (this is a different metric than the toilet paper fragility example) from 1 gift wrap tissue thick to 3 layers of tissue.
phone colors are strange. I'd describe the yellow ribbon as two tone. let's just say the top half of the ribbon is sorta bright orange yellow, the reserve side of the ribbon in like a burnt umber.
hmmmm, The last observation is that it's kind of heavy for the volume it would displace.
Thank you.
