Magnetite Lodestone with a paperclip mohawk,
all the way from sunny SoCal
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All you lovely dirt nerds would have been ecstatically pleased to have seen the exhibit at the Natural History Museum on SOIL.
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And yes, they even had a Munsell Book! Well now, I'd say this specimen looks like a 10YR 5/3. Yes, yes, quite right.
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