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Interesting!
Hehe... I thought you might have gone into the hills and found some suitable rocks
I was on a walk by the ocean and passed some slate. Your older thread popped into mind and I rather opportunistically decided to stop and take two whetstone-sized pieces home. I didn't really have time to choose the 'perfect' stone (it was raining!). So I never expected the stones to be anything more than functional.
I am an Aussie (NSW)! The stone is from the mid-north coast of NSW - so about 1500km away! In someways it is a very 'marine' stone... that coarseness I talked about has a sandy quality to it... but finer. After a bit of Googling, it looks like the stone is likely to be a mica-quartz slate - nothing fancy like garnets.
It was neither a failure nor a success... just a fun distraction i suppose! I like the idea of trying to find an Ozzie natural. If only I had a geologist friend to recommend some good local hunting grounds!
Hehe... I thought you might have gone into the hills and found some suitable rocks
I was on a walk by the ocean and passed some slate. Your older thread popped into mind and I rather opportunistically decided to stop and take two whetstone-sized pieces home. I didn't really have time to choose the 'perfect' stone (it was raining!). So I never expected the stones to be anything more than functional.
I am an Aussie (NSW)! The stone is from the mid-north coast of NSW - so about 1500km away! In someways it is a very 'marine' stone... that coarseness I talked about has a sandy quality to it... but finer. After a bit of Googling, it looks like the stone is likely to be a mica-quartz slate - nothing fancy like garnets.
It was neither a failure nor a success... just a fun distraction i suppose! I like the idea of trying to find an Ozzie natural. If only I had a geologist friend to recommend some good local hunting grounds!