Drool

[rsrocket1]

My wife and I took a tour of the University of Nevada, Reno last week. We went into the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering where we saw the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum and the million dollar Tiffany collection of silver which was custom made for Mrs. Mackay.

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While the silver was nice, I was drawn to a glass case to the side:

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You know you have it bad when this grabs your attention over a million dollars worth of silver!

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[a.squibload]

Um, it's still there...right?:bigsmyl2:

[bowfin]

So, you were tempted to use the Tiffany urn to smash the glass display cae to get the hunk of Galena...right?[smilie=s:

[Rangefinder]

Man-oh-man, you'd lose it if I could take you back to my days as a kid. I grew up in Butte, Montana. My grandfather use to work in the mines there--primarily copper, but they pulled out tons of galena. I had so much of the stuff kicking around it was practically a nuisance after a while, and knew of half a dozen places on the west edge of uptown that I could just pick it up on the ground by the truck-load. NOW--smelting it out for the pure lead might be a different animal all together, but it would sure be fun to have the supply I did back then.

[Roundnoser]

Next time you go there, bring a rock that has been spray painted to look like the galena and swap them out...like Indiana Jones in "The Temple of Lead"!

[popper]

Your a guy - tableware means nothing.

[H.Callahan]

There was tableware?