[Rockhounds] What is the weirdest thing that you found while rock hunting?

[Doug Bank]

Not THAT weird, but… My son and I were collecting fluorescent minerals at the Hasselhjöden mine in Sweden. This location has a lot of yellow fluorescing sphalerite. Unfortunately, it also has thousands upon thousands of shards of clay pigeons used for skeet shooting that also fluoresced yellow. We didn’t know they were there until the sun set and we turned on the UV lights. The only saving grace was that the sphalerite phosphoresced while the clay pigeons did not. 

> On Nov 24, 2020, at 7:12 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The below articles reminded me that people doing fieldwork
>> find weird things in the field. What is the weirdest thing /
>> object you saw while fossil / rock hunting?
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> An Australian penny found in the woods in Michigan while hiking in to a
> remote collecting location.
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