Thread: You found what? Over where?

I have not worked with the stone, but been to the mine. Good time. Didn't see a Balrog, though.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

I have not worked with the stone, but been to the mine. Good time. Didn't see a Balrog, though.

Nice use the emoji!

I have made quite a few hones out of very hard green rock. Now by very hard I mean very hard for a hone but certainly not on the rock scale. My rocks however did not come from deep in the earth, surface actually!

Originally Posted by RezDog

I have made quite a few hones out of very hard green rock. Now by very hard I mean very hard for a hone but certainly not on the rock scale. My rocks however did not come from deep in the earth, surface actually!

Why of course they come from deep in the earth. All rocks originate that way. Some just get modified later on in different ways.

I worked in Mountain Iron Minnesota, and lived in Chisholm on the range. Used to go drinking in them roadhouse bars in and around there. Bemidji, Keewatin, Grand Rapids, Virginia Minnesota. Back in the 1970s. IIRC the world's largest open pit mine was in Hibbing, MN.

That's what we call the Mesabi Range. Very old-Precambrian. Ancient mountains eroded and the iron dissolved in the ancient sea that was there and that combined with sea life and wa-la you have iron silicate-Taconite.