this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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Cool Rocks

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A place for:

Minerals are cool, too.

Be gneiss to each other

Please use posts for your rocks. Feel free to add more pictures and links to articles in the post text.

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A subset of rocks we found at our beach.

Edit: GiantChickDicks suggested to check under UV light. Funny you should presume I have such a device:

The faint highlights are a camera artifact and look much dimmer to the eye.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I should get some nice stripy rocks. Pickling weights are stupidly expensive on Amazon, like £4-5 per individual weight. Rocks are free if you look in the right places and look better.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Weights to hold the food below the liquid. A cool rock would do that job far better as long as it fits in the jar.