A couple of winters ago, I was wandering around down somewhere near Quartzite, Arizona. Tried metal detecting, but some many people have left their trash behind, which makes detecting difficult, if not impossible.
I don't remember exactly where, but I went for an early morning walk, picking up and inspecting rocks along the way. Suddenly, I came across some strange looking pieces of volcanic rock, smooth, black and BUBBLED...Humm? Never seen anything like this before. Sort of like Obsidian, only flat, with bubbles.
Strange, but I didn't think much of it at the time, since strange things are common out here in the desert. It wasn't until some months later I was reading one of my old Gold Prospector magazines and opened up to an article about PSILOMELANE...
There it was! The very same type rocks I saw that day in an UN-REMEMBERED place. It turns out that Psilomelane is used to make some very nice jewelry, but also becoming very hard to find. Probably worth a good bit of change...IF I could ever find the place, again?
I don't remember exactly where, but I went for an early morning walk, picking up and inspecting rocks along the way. Suddenly, I came across some strange looking pieces of volcanic rock, smooth, black and BUBBLED...Humm? Never seen anything like this before. Sort of like Obsidian, only flat, with bubbles.
Strange, but I didn't think much of it at the time, since strange things are common out here in the desert. It wasn't until some months later I was reading one of my old Gold Prospector magazines and opened up to an article about PSILOMELANE...
There it was! The very same type rocks I saw that day in an UN-REMEMBERED place. It turns out that Psilomelane is used to make some very nice jewelry, but also becoming very hard to find. Probably worth a good bit of change...IF I could ever find the place, again?
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