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Or as our lapidary friends say, rough humor.

I wanted to be a geologist, but I took everything for granite.

I wanted to be a gold miner, but it didn't pan out.

That rubble I picked through was really gneiss.

You take a bag of marbles with you when you go out collecting.  Every time
you find a good specimen you leave a marble in its place.  You know you're
a rockhound when you've lost all your marbles.
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What do you get when...
(Answers below)

1. Bovine eats feldspar
2. Lawyers sue silica miner
3. Dr.Suess' miner in Death Valley
4. Strong sun in the Arctic
5. Turner finds rosy sandstone deposits
6. The San Andreas stops moving
7. Very sudden loss of soil
8. Helicopter to transport CU
9. Geometrically formed mineral in the shape of a hand-gun
10. Idiot who loves Isometric minerals
11. Shakespeare's petroleum comedy
12. Casino on a geologic fault
13. Person who doesn't believe in volcanoes
14. Very, very hot coffee
15. Geologist who can't stop talking shop
16. Group of shiny crystals
17. Vivacious agate
18. Volcanic tax form entry
19. Rutilated quartz that really isn't
20. Climber after fossil resin
21. Senor finds ore in meadow
22. Blind, underground anthracite miner
23. Rock-hammer marks on actor Tom's fingers
24. A well behaved reef inhabitant
25. Over-dressed dame who likes small quartz Xls
26. The effect of Darwin's theories
27. The only eruption in town
28. Silica army posts
29. Tie up your Aussie gems
30. Be lonely for a rock fracture
31. Spy some dense grey silica
32. Hollow rock ball made by GM
33. Hot spring at a pharmaceutical company
34. Marker for the Sweet Home entrance
35. We got rid of the nugget!
36. Mixed up metamorphic limestone
37. Salt observed in the day-time
38. Argentina gemstone
39. Mica deposit nears surface
40. Cartoon ghost likes semi-precious gem
41. Rona's diamond
42. Machine used to shape limestone
43. Volcanic glass disappears
44. Courthouse date for claim jumping
45. Muffin maker's claim gives indigestion
46. Deer runs into open pit mine
47. Annual celebration for brick makers
48. Strike-slip fault moves a bit
49. A pebble in my argyles
50. Tysons igneous intrusion
51. Wind which blows fissile rock around
52. Chamberlain's deposit
53. Dish made of sedimentary rock
54. Area around the top of a volcano
55. Rocks identical images
56. Unforgettable dinosaur
57. Cost of banded metamorphic rock


Answers:

1. cow bites albites
2. quartz torts
3. a borax lorax
4. glacier erasure
5. Ted's red beds
6. fault's halt
7. an erosion explosion
8. copper chopper
9. crystal pistol
10. cube boob
11. oil's well that ends well
12. a dip-joint clip-joint
13. igneous ignoramus
14. lava java
15. an ore bore
16. cluster luster
17. chert flirt
18. an eruption deduction
19. inclusion illusion
20. amber clamber
21. Spain plain vein
22. coal mole
23. Cruises' bruises
24. moral coral
25. a drusy floozie
26. evolution revolution
27. an exclusive extrusive
28. quartz forts
29. rope all opal
30. miss your fissure
31. flint glint
32. Geo geode
33. Pfizer geyser
34. fine mine sign
35. sold gold
36. garbled marble
37. daylight halite
38. La Paz topaz
39. a rising mass of isinglass
40. Casper's jasper
41. Barrett's carats
42. a limestone grindstone
43. obsidian oblivion
44. rock pocket docket
45. Thomas' pumices
46. quarry quarry
47. clay day
48. rift shift
49. sock rock
50. Mike's dike
51. shale gale
52. Wilt The Stilt's silt
53. slate plate
54. cone zone
55. stones clones
56. Jurassic classic
57. gneiss price

by Larry Rush
 larryrush@att.net
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