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1dave misunderstood rock expert Awed by the Universe! Member since October 2013 Posts: 11,941	Slurry PH? Oct 2, 2017 13:14:16 GMT -5 amygdule likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 1dave on Oct 2, 2017 13:14:16 GMT -5 This Mexican Coconut has been of intense interest to me. It starts with layers of agate, then agate mixed with calcite, then calcite plates. What was the chemistry?
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amygdule no longer being taken for granite Member since April 2012 Posts: 7,624	Slurry PH? Oct 2, 2017 14:16:21 GMT -5 1dave likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by amygdule on Oct 2, 2017 14:16:21 GMT -5 Slightly Off Topic.
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Oct 2, 2017 13:14:16 GMT -5 1dave said:

This Mexican Coconut has been of intense interest to me. It starts with layers of agate, then agate mixed with calcite, then calcite plates. What was the chemistry?

Different episodes of chemical infusions over Time.

1dave misunderstood rock expert Awed by the Universe! Member since October 2013 Posts: 11,941	Slurry PH? Oct 2, 2017 20:20:07 GMT -5 amygdule likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 1dave on Oct 2, 2017 20:20:07 GMT -5 Oct 2, 2017 14:16:21 GMT -5 amygdule said: Slightly Off Topic. Yes, but interesting.
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It was a very interesting process recycling chemicals and cooking mud.

Once in a while the kiln would build a mud ball as big as the wall

Then we would have to blast it apart with an eight gauge slug gun.

Some of them lime balls were harder than hell.

Eat the tip of your jackhammer bit like butter.

A shift at the Caustic Plant was ...........

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youp50 has rocks in the head . Member since February 2017 Posts: 505	Slurry PH? Oct 7, 2017 6:04:34 GMT -5 amygdule likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by youp50 on Oct 7, 2017 6:04:34 GMT -5 A shift at the caustic plant was.... never as lucrative as it should have been. I am impressed...

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Oct 7, 2017 6:04:34 GMT -5 youp50 said:

A shift at the caustic plant was.... never as lucrative as it should have been.

I am impressed...

The lucrative part was the 5 weeks of paid vacation a year that I used to go on mining expeditions.

Here's a Google Earth view of the caustic plant that I worked at. Note the 3 lime kilns in the center
surrounded by the various tanks used to process the lime slurry. The kilns were about 100 feet long and
rotate at about 1 RPM.