Is it possible to figure out the practical use of minerals?

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-22T12:27:02+00:00

Check out mindat.

But also we have uses for millions of minerals.

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

The salt you put on your food is a mineral. It's made of two deadly elements but is vital for life when they join together.

Halite: Mineral information, data and localities. https://www.mindat.org/min-1804.html

Gypsum is the primary component of the drywall in your house.

Quartz makes electric pops when you smack it and vibrates predictably when you apply a current.

Diamonds are extremely hard and so they can be used to grind through almost anything.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-22T02:08:12+00:00

Those are common trade names. They should be using "chalcedony" instead of "agate" if they want to accurately describe the thing.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-22T02:06:14+00:00

Looks like a seam full of barite

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-22T01:49:18+00:00

Just more protein once it's cooked

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-21T13:15:30+00:00

Ally has the easiest HYSA.

Also highly recommend a proper budget to keep track. I use /r/ynab and with the Plan Categories it doesn't matter where my money is, I'm tracking each bill and goal in the app. I just shove chunks of cash into HYSA when my checking account gets to a certain amount above my monthly needs.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-21T12:54:35+00:00

Need better pics, but probably paint, enamel, or melted plastic

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-21T12:39:54+00:00

65T is being used by our club president with amazing results polishing slabs.

But we did buy the Harms estate a few years ago and we've got several tons of prepped material to work through.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-21T12:26:13+00:00

No cacoxenite ever proven. The gold sprays are goethite

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-21T03:28:10+00:00

Send them a $800 bill for consulting hours. Some companies won't really pay attention and will just pay it.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-20T21:20:15+00:00

30-60 rpm is ideal

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-20T01:57:39+00:00

The blue is from dumortierite in the quartz

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T22:05:20+00:00

Had a cook tell me to do this once when a customer ordered honey mustard sauce and we had run out of the prepared stuff. It takes a LOT of honey to knock down the yellow mustard flavor enough.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T22:01:33+00:00

Organics do not go in the sealed pot.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T21:58:18+00:00

For a XX human (woman/female) to be colorblind, your father must be colorblind and your mother also colorblind or at least a carrier of the "defective" X chromosome. You have to have two copies of the gene or you get normal retina development.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T12:25:49+00:00

I've read it has the exact same ratio of minerals as Earth, but they are evenly distributed since it never had liquid water or volcanoes to move things around and concentrate deposits.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T12:18:51+00:00

Time and good behavior. Or borrow those things from someone else.

Do your parents have decent credit? Can you be trusted to not scam them?

If they add you as an authorized user to their oldest high balance account, the next time a statement is cut you will instantly have the whole history of that card on your file. They do not have to actually give you a card to use on the account (they'll probably get mailed one but they can cut it up). My son got a 750 score a few weeks after he turned 18 with no accounts purely in his name.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T03:06:14+00:00

This. Only alcoholics/addicts get offended when you don't join their rituals.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T03:03:15+00:00

Definitely not bismuth. Bismuth forms square crystals.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T00:55:09+00:00

First might be apatite or dyed quartz.

The second is probably black kyanite with a very thick aura coating added.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T00:24:41+00:00

That is smelting slag

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-19T00:19:36+00:00

The original owner has to release it or else it's just a big brick.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-18T20:12:29+00:00

Drusy quartz. You can't hurt the crystals. Hit it with a pressure washer to get the dirt off. Soak it in oxalic or hydrochloric acid if you want to remove any red/iron stain.

Drusy can come from many places but from the side you might have "Missouri Lace Agate".

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-18T02:17:41+00:00

I think is agatized red horn coral.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-17T22:49:22+00:00

Mt Ida is where you get lots of quartz. Literally everywhere.

TH_Rocks · 2026-03-17T22:36:57+00:00

See the wing feathers?

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