What's My Rock? #3 - a rock identification show

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

Комментарии • 34

  • @marcelduckfeather9859
    @marcelduckfeather9859 12 дней назад +5

    Came for the rocks, stayed for the funny characters. Napoleon complex comment went right over her head! Lol. Great lil show you guys got going. You do a fantastic job. Keep it up!

  • @789563able
    @789563able Год назад +14

    You should put the spectrometer on some of these characters that come in. Some weird compositions there

    • @TinaHyde
      @TinaHyde Год назад +4

      Mostly Californium, I’m guessing. 😏

  • @joecollins024
    @joecollins024 Год назад +4

    The old timers of the Mojave desert would melt down ore in makeshift furnaces. I'd say her large slag came out of a silver/lead prospect. Likely near Barstow California, where several silver prospects line the hills.

  • @thisoldminewithlars5324
    @thisoldminewithlars5324 9 месяцев назад +4

    Iron slag was used as a road base many years ago. Magnetic rock found along a roadside is probably slag.

  • @davidedgar2818
    @davidedgar2818 Год назад +4

    Kaiser steel had the biggest steel rolling mill in Fontana throughout WW2. Kaiser also had a huge iron mine ( with high grade ore) at Eagle Mountaon near Desert Center. I would not be surprised to find out that a lot of their slag had been used for road fill or agregate. You can still find chunks of that ore along the rail lines leading out of the old Eagle Mountain mine.

    • @tectonic_city
      @tectonic_city  Год назад +1

      thanks for the tip, I'll see if I can find a specimen, would help identifying peoples' finds.

    • @davidedgar2818
      @davidedgar2818 Год назад +3

      @@tectonic_city I drove into the Eagle Mountain mine town back about 1990. The roads leading up to the mine were blocked by huge boulders but I was able to gather some samples. I could sacrifice a piece for your purpose.
      I also have a rock found out near Borrego Springs that I have tentatively identified as a meteorite after I sliced it open. I still need a more positive ID than my amature opinion.

    • @tectonic_city
      @tectonic_city  Год назад +3

      bring it in for the show!

    • @davidedgar2818
      @davidedgar2818 Год назад +2

      @@tectonic_city I would but I live in Hawaii and with my current disability long air flights are tough. I'd send the Eagle Mountain sample to you though, I think it might aid you in your analysis with the XFR.
      I have a small sample from Eagle Mountain that I believe is high manganese but has other minerals attached. I would love to know the spectrum reading.
      The " meteorite" I'm currently waiting for an astrogeologist to come to the Imiloa center and hopefully meet up. I'll let you know.
      I do enjoy your content as well.

  • @willyeverdie2731
    @willyeverdie2731 Год назад +4

    Identifying meteorwrongs one turd at a time bravo! This is a form of entertainment for sure!

  • @Saritabanana
    @Saritabanana 11 месяцев назад +3

    HAHAHAHA "Somebody barfed cottage cheese up then it turned brown." It does look like that! Also- I LOVE this. So helpful!

  • @tompowers8495
    @tompowers8495 10 дней назад +1

    The breaker of hearts.......as a rockologist I know the feeling...........sometimes I just lie.......

  • @DR_SOLO
    @DR_SOLO Год назад +3

    Want another Stellar joke?
    Why can't you ever get a horse to agree with you?
    Because they're naysayers! 😎🤠 13:59

    • @sarahb.6475
      @sarahb.6475 6 месяцев назад

      You clearly have never seen anyone do dressage. Horses can agree with people very well. But its all how you train them. They can sense your fear + nervousness too.. Of course some horses have trauma backgrounds and they are scared of everyday items. Oliver is even scared of a twig if I pick one up off the ground! 😮 you have to know each individual horse + their personality. 🐎 it all depends on the relationship between you + your horse.

    • @DR_SOLO
      @DR_SOLO 6 месяцев назад

      @@sarahb.6475
      you could have just said my joke was not funny!
      a nay sayer is a person you says no disagrees opposes something or someone.
      Horses Ney so with a play on words, i suggested that horse are Naysayers! because horse say Ney! 🤔🤨😬🤤🧐😕🤔

  • @cookiekitty8122
    @cookiekitty8122 Год назад +3

    You are a great person. Thanks.

  • @mariemoss2475
    @mariemoss2475 Год назад +3

    What a great channel.😊

  • @user-fe3mt4qo8o
    @user-fe3mt4qo8o 13 дней назад +2

    They use slag for fill on railroads and some roads. Much more likely than someone making iron in the desert. 😂😂😂

  • @oldmech619
    @oldmech619 3 дня назад

    I see an XRF for $20k? And can’t afford a cheap stand for the samples.

  • @stormrunner0029
    @stormrunner0029 7 дней назад

    Could these pieces of slag be coming from the olde small town blacksmiths, possibly a guy making wagon wheels. There should be some kind of value placed on these pieces. It is still a part of American history.

  • @angelitocapistrano7318
    @angelitocapistrano7318 Год назад +2

    Hello sir i have a suspicious stony meteorite..please can you help me to identify?thank you very much

    • @tectonic_city
      @tectonic_city  Год назад +2

      sorry I don't identify rocks by pictures on the internet but you're welcome to be a guest on the show

  • @ShotoTodoroki-zb3oc
    @ShotoTodoroki-zb3oc Год назад +3

    Saya dari indonesia tgl 9juni 2023.tempat saya kejatuhan meteor.beratnya 2,308 gram.sekiranya tuan bisa membeli meteor saya.terima kasih

  • @leannkennedy6568
    @leannkennedy6568 15 дней назад +3

    Hahaha

  • @sarahb.6475
    @sarahb.6475 6 месяцев назад +2

    Hmmmm.... Almost all of the rocks people bring in seem to have lots of calcium in them...

    • @tectonic_city
      @tectonic_city  6 месяцев назад +2

      Must have spilled milk on the detector

    • @earlaker
      @earlaker 14 дней назад

      LMAO! ​@@tectonic_city

  • @sparkey4293
    @sparkey4293 6 дней назад

    Everything was a meteorite at some point in time say before the earth formed. So just tell them that everything in this specimen came from space at some point in history, but it’s been to long to be of any current significance.