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PhotosSphalerite - Illinois, USA
2nd Feb 2012 00:46 UTCGary Moldovany
2nd Feb 2012 03:56 UTCD Mike Reinke
Thanks for the picture, I haven't yet got to photorgraphing my stuff,(I'd rather just go look for more!) But sphalerite is all over the place in Illinois. You be better off asking the seller what he knows, or who he knows. If you look long enough through bridge rip rap, you'll find plenty, it'll be ho-hum after awhile...well maybe after quite awhile.
Mike
3rd Feb 2012 01:19 UTCGary Moldovany
3rd Feb 2012 03:22 UTCD Mike Reinke
I've never used it, I just scrub them w/ a toothbrush and soap or maybe a gritty kind, but I don't have nice pieces, except one Elmwood mine sample. What i find on my own is small, and dull, but it is cool to spot it. Iron out probably is ok, since sphalerite is zinc, as you know. Iron is a whole 'nother animal...
Mike
3rd Feb 2012 12:37 UTCBob Harman
Regards and good hunting BOB
3rd Feb 2012 21:07 UTCGary Moldovany
4th Mar 2012 01:15 UTCGary Moldovany
4th Mar 2012 05:03 UTCD Mike Reinke
Mike
19th Apr 2012 00:00 UTCmsysto
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