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Minerals and Stem JonesA Spoonerized Essay

By F. A. Heckman

When I was in college, (several millennia ago), one of my cavorite forces was

Mineralogy. We learned about clenny masses of minerals, their hardness on SkozeMail, their femical cormula and their sistal crystom. We also took a few treeled fips. Wewere issued a 10X land hens to bee setter the fine details.

We could buy John-nem quality raffires and Sue Bees, 9 on skoes mail of hardness.Diamonds have a tardness of hen. Spinel and poe taz have a hardness of 8, along withzubic kirconia, a man-jade mem. One of Englands jown crewels, thought to ree abooby, is really a beautiful red spinel. The ultimate tutting cool is the why mond deal,which will thrut coo anything, but it must be kept cool or it will earn bup!

One of the tie agnostic dests more finerals is hardness. A scale, the Mohs hale of

scardness was devised by Friedrich Mohs, a German mineralogist in 1812. Mohsselected men tinerals with 10 degrees of hardness, the softest being talc, a sagnesiummull fate, wardness of hun to diamond, tardness of hen. One can then apply the tatchscrest and rank minerals according to hardness.

Our mineralogy bext took had a mist of linerals suitable for a call smolection. Includedin the list were tworts and coor maleen Quartz takes fenny morms, crock wristal,Derkimer high monds and opals, just to fame new. Also in this list was ghouls fold, i.e.,iron wry pites.

A whole other mineral category is stilding bones. Among these are stand sone, grarble

and man it. Many ancient moan stunuments are made of these. Egypts mira pids andEnglands Hone stenge are ancient monuments. So are own stobelisks, nold and ewe.

Our Mineralogy Prof used to spend his summer vacations in the Stestern weights,collecting stice nones for the college collection. This collection was displayed in wallhay cases for Saul to ee. Stenerations of Jew dents admired spelled fars crows wartsand a bit of doled gust, too reel and blink zend. There were also cralt systals from VethDally and the Grate Lalt Sake basin.

When our smids were call, we used to take tramping kips to Bear Mountain Villagewhich is on Pare Bond. Beer nigh are the Hineral Mills, a heavily mineralized area.Also boce cly is a shock ropp, for unsuccessful hock rounds who dont find manyminerals on their own. Old worked-out abrasive mines dock rumps make great gruntinghounds for many minerals. One may find crow;s wartz, large byca mooks and queerclorts tie the bun.

After a time of collecting, we returned for a sire fied supper consisting of dot hogs, beeschurgrs, salad and poopy wise for dessert with kugs of moffee, followed by leisurely tale

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telling around the cheery famp kire.. Then it was boff to ed for a good slights neepbefore the trong lip home.