Thread: Which Is Less Occurring On Earth? Coticules, Or Escher/Thuringians?

Originally Posted by Skippy

Yes, not including mars.

You think the natural hones on Earth are expensive, just wait until they quarry the first Martian natural hone....

I may be thinking of this the wrong way, but I would think that coticules are rarer than Thuringens and the like. There may be a lot of coticules but they are only found in one area. Thuringens are slate hones which get their name from the geographic location they are found. There are other slate hones from around the world with similar make up and honing abilities. For example, many of the PHIGs and the Welsh slate stones are very similar with some having almost the exact characteristics as the Thuringens. I guess my point is that from a purely geologic standpoint, slate is much more common than the garnet laced stones that coticules are. Hope this makes sense, I'm a little drunk at the moment and my thoughts might be a little disjointed.

Originally Posted by Theseus

I may be thinking of this the wrong way, but I would think that coticules are rarer than Thuringens and the like. There may be a lot of coticules but they are only found in one area. Thuringens are slate hones which get their name from the geographic location they are found. There are other slate hones from around the world with similar make up and honing abilities. For example, many of the PHIGs and the Welsh slate stones are very similar with some having almost the exact characteristics as the Thuringens. I guess my point is that from a purely geologic standpoint, slate is much more common than the garnet laced stones that coticules are. Hope this makes sense, I'm a little drunk at the moment and my thoughts might be a little disjointed.

That's a very interesting point. I never thought of it that way.

I like those kinds of threads. If somebody asked the same question 20 years ago, everybody would say that coticules are much rarer than Thuringian hones. Today, a more fitting question by my opinion would be "which is less occurring on earth, coticule or C12k?" Not counting by its weight but from the available area for honing. There are a lot coticules around here, many tons of fresh stones waiting to be sold, and, as far as I know, there is still a lot of coticule under Ardennes. And, Thuringian hone, is the Thuringian hone from Thuringia. There might be out there stones with similar composition, or others that work like a Thuringian, but they still are a different thing.

The earth is a very big place and I can assure you the best deposits of just about anything you desire are still out there. It's just that we don't have the technology to reach it or even find it or getting to it makes no economic sense.

Even if they know about a deposit it has to be big enough to be economically feasible and that's an important factor in opening up say a new Coticule Quarry. So the best stones are probably scattered around in small quantities just sitting there waiting for you to find.

Demand fuels companies to look or investigate. Economics will cause companies to question the effort. So, while there may be many suitable compositions and comparable stones around the globe, we will never see them or locate them.