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

[@marcelduckfeather9859]

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!

[@connifilteau2678]

Thanks Dr. Abstract and Dr. Seuss ;] funny and informative. Keep on teaching, with your nice, kind, clear observations. ty

[@789563able]

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

[@TinaHyde]

Mostly Californium, I’m guessing. 😏

[@davidedgar2818]

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]

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

[@davidedgar2818]

@@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]

bring it in for the show!

[@davidedgar2818]

@@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.

[@cookiekitty8122]

You are a great person. Thanks.

[@joecollins024]

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]

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

[@willyeverdie2731]

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

[@mariemoss2475]

What a great channel.😊

[@Saritabanana]

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

[@tectonic_city]

I'm so glad!

[@tompowers8495]

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

[@DR_SOLO]

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

[@sarahb.6475]

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]

@@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! 🤔🤨😬🤤🧐😕🤔

[@user-fe3mt4qo8o]

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

[@oldmech619]

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

[@tectonic_city]

actually it's 50K, and we have a stand but it gets in the way of the camera.

[@angelitocapistrano7318]

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

[@tectonic_city]

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

[@leannkennedy6568]

Hahaha

[@stormrunner0029]

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.

[@rachaelb9164]

lol the zoo joke was funny. Classic dad joke.

[@ShotoTodoroki-zb3oc]

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

[@tectonic_city]

sorry I don't buy meteorites

[@sarahb.6475]

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

[@tectonic_city]

Must have spilled milk on the detector

[@earlaker]

LMAO! ​@@tectonic_city

[@sparkey4293]

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.

[@lundgrenbronzestudios]

I feel like every episode someone thinks they have a meteorite.

[@tectonic_city]

we just film whoever comes in, and yes it's historically the case that most people who contact geology professors for rock ID believe they have a meteorite