Interesting Photos

[hemmjo]

I recently visited the Colorado School of Mines (https://www.mines.edu) They have a very impressive collection of various rocks and minerals from around the World and the USA.

I took some photos of good ole Galena as it comes out of the ground. The samples impressed me, perhaps some will find them interesting. They have many more samples, that I have photos of, my daughter was saying, "Dad, why do you need pictures of all these rocks". I kept asking her to get photos with her phone.



The earth and all of its rocks and minerals are fascinating to me. Not sure how to load the High Resolution photos here.

[retread]

Beautiful and useful too!!

[NyFirefighter357]

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS). It is the most important ore of lead and an important source of silver.

[Land Owner]

The one from Martin Zinn looks like "The Borg".

[Bookworm]

The one from Martin Zinn looks like "The Borg".

I was at the dentist, and the young (early 20s) hygienist had some sort of high-tech magnifying/lighted headgear. I commented that it looked like she had been abducted by the Borg. She had no idea to what I was referring.

Sometimes I feel old.

[Land Owner]

LOL. We've been there and done that for so long it is funny when the youngsters have that "deer in the headlights" look on their face at the things we LIVED. One day they will say the same thing about an even younger generation. And so it goes...and so it goes.

[RogerDat]

Neat pictures. I would advise NOT uploading high resolution pictures. First because if the dimensions are too large or the file size is too large the upload will fail. Second because you have an allowance of space for uploads. Smaller picture files allow you to upload more pictures.

I have been to Leadville Colo. would have liked to see the heavy "black sand" that was there originally that the gold miners thought was worthless. A mining engineer as I recall was the first to figure out it was lead & silver in a broken down to sand and gravel form of what you have in your pictures