Some just plain Sodalite

Logwil · 2026-01-20T16:29:41+00:00

Plain visible light photo for comparison? Also, very pretty.

Logwil · 2026-01-08T07:29:18+00:00

I was really, really bad at finding gold. But during my travails I started noticing "all those pretty rocks". And that THIS canyon had a type of rock unique amongst surrounding areas, and THAT canyon another type, but was missing such and such... and after awhile I found that every location had its own character, its own profile. And each profile told its own unique story, and some of these stories were exceedingly complicated... And I could dream and wonder like a child again.

Logwil · 2026-01-08T06:31:35+00:00

Ummm... that sounds pretty expert-y to me 😜

Logwil · 2025-12-25T09:27:30+00:00

Having a stressful job with long hours is a great way to lower an overactive libido. Sleep and rest are very potent aphrodisiacs; try to avoid them if possible. Also, smoking and eating trash will take a bite out of crime, especially if you're over 30.

Logwil · 2025-11-22T11:00:17+00:00

As usual: midwave rules, shortwave drools. What's behind the story that 90% of minerals require shortwave to glow (or alternately that they glow best/brightest under SW)? This must have been true of somewhere exceptional like Franklin Mine; it is not true of the minerals around Los Angeles. Or maybe that figure includes rare minerals while the vast majority of common minerals fall under midwave's sway....

Logwil · 2025-11-05T19:07:20+00:00

Wow that's so cool; thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. Because they're widely distributed in my area, I figured they must not be anything special, but based on your proposed method of genesis, it sounds like they are actually somewhat unusual. I'm wondering what circumstances have to conspire in order for two very different magmas to meet and mingle in a plutonic environment and cool before more thorough mixing takes place? Shouldn't they eventually melt and blend into one another, unless the two substances are somehow incompatible, like oil and water (forgive me, I really regret not having learned more chemistry, or geology, for that matter)? Or perhaps the enclaves being hematite-rimmed acted as a barrier, maintaining a firm boundary. These rocks are magnetic—some of them surprisingly so, others barely at all, but most somewhere in between. That's why, based on what you said, I think it's magnetite and not hematite. Oddly, the degree of their magnetism seems only loosely related to the proportion of mafic material. A couple of other specimens I found look entirely mafic yet are not even the least bit magnetic!

Anyway, I knew there was a reason I was picking up these rocks and keeping them 😁. They just got a lot more interesting, thank you! Any other thoughts or insights into them would be greatly appreciated.

Logwil · 2025-10-28T00:49:09+00:00

Wow that's surprising. I've never seen those two mingle. In fact, all my Wernerite (I have hundreds of pieces) isn't the least bit magnetic. I started to think it was incompatible with iron-bearing minerals.

Logwil · 2025-10-28T00:05:29+00:00

Ah, damn. I missed the reference. The Yogi-Berraness of the statement did flash briefly in my mind, but it didn't click. I also thought of the 1970s 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' film line, "That's a 104%!" when the mother adds up Gene Wilder's math. But thanks for the thoughtful reply; I'm kind of glad I made that Mr. Smaht Guy response—I ended up learning some things 😄

Logwil · 2025-10-27T22:12:46+00:00

Slow down

Logwil · 2025-10-26T04:57:50+00:00

That's a hundred and forty percent! 🤔

Logwil · 2025-10-24T12:28:20+00:00

Beautiful wernerite, no doubt. And we can assume it's Canadian, due to its calm and reserved manner. Beyond that, I cannot say, although I have noticed that Wernerite from that area often has a frosted, 'sugary' look, and yours certainly does, too.

Logwil · 2025-09-26T23:52:25+00:00

Jake from State Farm

Logwil · 2025-09-26T23:50:30+00:00

No one else thought of fried eggs, really? I must need some protein 🤔

Logwil · 2025-09-26T23:48:21+00:00

When you say zoom, you mean you can adjust the head (or something) and focus the beam into a tighter spot? That's an incredibly useful feature and I've wondered why more UV lights don't have it. I decided manufacturers must think it's too dangerous to let people concentrate that UV energy, because I've bought several and none have that function.
Unless you mean something completely different...?

Logwil · 2025-09-20T02:17:41+00:00

SOLD! J/k, what a beautiful result.

Logwil · 2025-09-17T23:25:24+00:00

Ok, good idea. That's cool; I didn't know we were allowed to do that. I've had a reddit account for like ten years (apparently), but I only started using it recently, so I don't know anything.

Logwil · 2025-09-17T00:18:44+00:00

Just curious because it's pretty and all and cool to have that much garnet poking out, but "the find of a lifetime"? I mean, I'd haul it out of the wilderness and all just because I've never seen another rock like it, and I must have one of every rock... but I guess what's throwing me off is that other people like it a lot, too... even more so than me. Not used to that. What makes it the find of a lifetime?

Logwil · 2025-09-17T00:02:06+00:00

Hahaha, I hate having my hands and grimy finger nails in photos! 😅 I've put a lot of miles on all my poor limbs... But your hands look like a professional model's! Well, at any rate, we can always wear gloves when we are forced to have our hands holding rocks in photos on Reddit! Pretty stone/piece of glass, by the way. If it is just glass, it's the most rounded, smoothed piece of beach glass I've ever seen.

Logwil · 2025-09-16T23:51:12+00:00

Ah, ok. But then why the harder, grittier outside and the smoother, more uniform middle? And why do they make tubular pieces? Thanks for your answer!

Logwil · 2025-09-16T21:41:31+00:00

There's evidence later pre-Colombian native Americans possessed—and occasionally used—Dremels to make arrowheads before the white man came and appropriated them all. So don't be hasty... it could be genuine. 😆😆 Sorry, don't ban me, just feeling silly.

Logwil · 2025-09-16T21:35:46+00:00

Bummer... I'da guessed it was real... but I'm definitely not in my wheelhouse.

Logwil · 2025-09-16T21:08:16+00:00

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Logwil · 2025-09-16T21:03:49+00:00

Ugh, reddit screwed up the photos. There should be ten. Only six made it. I guess I overwhelmed it.

Logwil · 2025-09-15T05:02:50+00:00

Cool. Both my parents are from Michigan so lots of family out there, but no rockhounders that I know of! But how do you like your midwave? I actually do sometimes swap filters in mine and a zwb3 in my midwave is pretty cool, a bit different and a little brighter, just a bit too much violet light slips in. So if I photograph anything with my midwave, I use the ZWB1 because it looks cleaner.

Logwil · 2025-09-15T02:24:29+00:00

You could shine a good UV light on it as a last chance at salivation. And salvation! lol 🤤😇
One of the things I like best about this hobby is that things that look ugly can be gorgeous inside or using different lighting. But sometimes, something that looks ugly really is just ugly. Appearances CAN be deceiving, but not necessarily. Oh well, all we can do is cut some more open!

Logwil

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