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Re:A 3K-year-old copper smelting site could be key to unders... by msds on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:37PM (#45458276)
Honesty I know a bunch of people who are burntout climbers and burntout geologists - sounds like a blast. Fun mineralogy with climbing that’s not…super exotic but still fun? I’d pay for it.
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Re:A 3K-year-old copper smelting site could be key to unders... by lightedman on Friday October 03, 2025 @08:18PM (#45469283)
Some of those climbs are dangerous though. The Chambless Skarn has a vertical wall of solid epidote you have to scale to reach a massive pocket of world-class hedenbergite, at the top of the mountain. That wall is a few stories tall, and your only grip is the side walls of the rock around you.
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