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My cousin told me to bring a magnet on my hike through the Adirondacks
He said it would help me spot iron-rich rocks like magnetite, and I thought it sounded silly... but I tried it last month. I found a small black rock that stuck right to the magnet near a stream bed. It was my first time finding magnetite in the wild. Has anyone else had luck with this trick for other types of rock?
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the_jamie2mo ago
Works on some meteorites too, which is just wild.
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ben4022mo agoMost Upvoted
Read about a lab using it on the Allende meteorite. They found amino acids, the building blocks for life, just sitting there in space rock.
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grayh601mo ago
I mean, cool party trick for sure, but how many people are actually out there hunting for space rocks? Feels like a fun gimmick for a hike, not a serious geology tool.
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