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To: marcos who wrote (41901)6/5/2007 5:19:47 PM
From: loantech  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 78419
 
<it was from Trail>

You sucking me into sumpin boy??? <VBG> You mean Trail Oregon up in the neighborhood or Prospect Oregon? <G>

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To: marcos who wrote (41901)6/5/2007 5:52:59 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78419
 
Right as rain

Galena

en.wikipedia.org



Sphalerite

en.wikipedia.org



Zinc and the origins of life

physorg.com

n a report scheduled for the Dec. 13 issue of the weekly Journal of the American Chemical Society, Martin and Zhang demonstrate that three of the five chemical reactions in the reverse Krebs cycle worked and produced biomolecules on the surface of a mineral believed to have been present in the waters of the early Earth. The mineral -- sphalerite -- acted as a photocatalyst that worked with sunlight to foster the chemical reactions.



To: marcos who wrote (41901)6/5/2007 7:48:17 PM
From: LoneClone  Respond to of 78419
 
LOL. I think I still have my boyhood rock collection in a box somewhere, and there may well be chunk of galena therein.

I sure did love those shiny rocks when I was a kid, and a few times toyed with the idea of becoming a geophysicist, but the lure first of nuclear physics and then the social sciences won out.

LC



To: marcos who wrote (41901)6/5/2007 10:49:37 PM
From: maxncompany  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78419
 
Silvercorp makes a very profitable living off galena sheets.