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Small Beryls
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Finally, my 8th attempt in perhaps 3 weeks to get out and close to the areas I want. Close, closer, but the logging roads divide and multiply and I'm never quite sure where I am, I have only a rough number of KM up a logging road that becomes 2 and then 3 and then 6, and when finally I've explored every dead end the day is almost over and I'm parched and well devoured by black flies and mosquitos.
The geography up here, it's perfect, even the feldspar crystals in the granite are a couple of inches big, pyrite crystals a quarter inch, the whole mountain was slow to cool, and from here it's just get out and walk and explore...
On the way back, long road, I stop and explore a couple of roadcuts of interest, and finally find something, hard to see in the overwhelming, bright light of day, but I pack it home to check later. A white, degrading feldspar filled with smoky quartz, mica, some black tourmaline or schorl...
And, under better examination, more time:
Beryls. Small, pale blue-green crystals, some with good shape, none larger than a half a centimeter in the micah/black tourmaline/smoky quartz matrix, but what I'm here for.
Now to return, dig deeper, follow the vein up or down the mountain and see if I can't find better...
Double Rainbow
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Spotted this one a couple of weeks ago:
This place is really quite infested with them. Must be all the unicorns.
Florida couple selling tickets to heaven
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It's a great story, and the Florida setting and the "newsprint photo" lend it the air of verisimilitude, unfortunately it's a hoax.
Similar: Smithsonian Barbie on Snopes
Welcome to Marwen
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- Category: Film
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Hollywood ruining a perfectly good documentary:
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The original documentary Marwencol I blogged about in 2011, it was brilliant, I doubt, somehow, that this will compare, but if it brings the story to a wider audience and inspires anyone to search out a more intelligent perspective on it maybe it's not a bad thing.
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