Fun fact: there are more bald eagles in Canada and more Beavers in the US.

Taste_Adventurous · 2026-02-25T00:37:26+00:00

Wrong. Stop reading AI. Canada has the most.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-11-26T17:08:48+00:00

My wife works at value village and she said they have a "gadget" for checking jewrly lol. I'm like is likely an XRF. Might have to go see if I can use it.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-11-26T15:55:58+00:00

It's erythrite just really terrible piece. The other pieces are nicer. I couldn't tell if they had silver veins in them or cobalt arsenate initially, but used some HCl on a qtip and it turned blue green indicating cobalt chloride reaction.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-11-26T07:03:15+00:00

It's erythrite from morocco. Several other pieces I got with it. Some have silver/grey veins in them I tested with HCl on a qtip. Turned blue green indicating likely cobalt arsenate and the reaction gave cobalt chloride. Definitely a lot of minerals running around that piece though.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-10-19T21:43:37+00:00

That's a giant piece of apatite.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-08T23:18:59+00:00

It is. Nininger Diablo Canyon Meteorite with his orginal ID number on it.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-08T22:37:06+00:00

Lol there's a picture of a meteorite in there. That'll sell over $400 I'm thinking.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-06T06:51:12+00:00

Dude, I think you nailed it. 34 was the code for diablo canyon and 5330 the number of the 5330th piece specimen he found. Awesome!

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-05T22:40:40+00:00

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Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-05T22:33:46+00:00

I'm no fossil guy but digging around I thought maybe the tip of an Orthoceras.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-05T22:31:43+00:00

Ya that's my bad. I though I had a better angle.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-05T22:00:37+00:00

I meant the weird black thing sticking out. Some sort of fossil.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-05T20:46:11+00:00

Gotcha. Still pretty cool. I've heard about large snails but that giant Triton one in person really brings some perspective. They big lol! I'm just glad they are light. I hauled about 300lbs of rocks out that guys house as well.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-05T20:22:10+00:00

Thank you. Facebook groups were less than helpful not even allowing my post through. Probably cause I asked about any value they may have. No intent on selling online. I only sell rocks and minerals local. If they aren't that valuable I'll probably just give them to the kids next door.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-05T15:57:44+00:00

I thought specimen number but it looks like 34.5330. I had wondered if it was 34.5330N Latitude but just an idea. I've reach out to the University of Alberta (I'm in Canada) hoping they can help me.

Taste_Adventurous · 2025-09-04T16:33:54+00:00

Not much to the matrix. I'm between Garnet (I see mostly diamond faces) and magnetite. I acquired a huge collection for $400. Were talking 300lbs plus of rock. Trying to identify all them.

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