The fascinating thing about this mineral is how much it looks and feels like plain lead, when it's actually a compound, lead sulfide, with a crystal structure identical to that of table salt. My dad has huge crystals of galena, and for years I thought they were crystallized lead metal, ...
Manage to hold it in, however, and usually (hopefully) by the time your internal crazy starts to leak out like homemade soup through a Jiffy bag, they’ll have fallen in love (or in like) with the rest of you and, after weighing up the pros and your increasing truckload of cons, d...